?What we know about clinical death

The scientific work of the experimenters reviewed the records and personally interviewed 63 cardiac patients who survived clinical death.It was found that 56 had returned from the dead do not remember anything. They lost consciousness and came to life in a hospital bed. However, seven remained distinct memories of what they experienced during the period of clinical death. Four claim that they possessed a sense of peace and joy, time ran faster, feeling his body disappeared, the mood was upbeat, even sublime. Then there was a bright light, indicating the transition to the other world. Later appeared mythical creatures, like angels or saints. All interviewees were for some time in the next world, and then come back to reality.It should be noted that these patients were not pious. For example, the three admitted that they do not go to church. Thus, to explain the similar stories of religious fanaticism is not obtained.But sensational in research by British scientists was different. Meticulously examining medical records busiest, doctors pronounced the verdict - the traditional view of the termination of the brain due to the lack of oxygen is wrong. None has visited the state of clinical death, there have been no significant reduction of the life-giving gas in the tissues of the central nervous system.Was discarded and another hypothesis - if the vision can be caused by irrational combination drugs used in resuscitation. Everything was done strictly in accordance with.Sam Parin claims that commits to research, being a skeptic, but now am one hundred percent, "there is something there." "Our patients have experienced their amazing state at a time when the brain is no longer able to function, and therefore was not able to play back any memories." According to the researcher, the human mind is not a function of the brain. And if this is so, says Peter Fenwick, "consciousness may well continue to exist even after the physical death of the body.""When we examine the brain - says Sam Parin - then clearly see the cells of gray matter in their structure, in principle, no different from the other cells of the body. They also produce proteins and other chemicals, but they can not create subjective thoughts and images , which we define as the human mind. Finally, our brain we need only as a receiver-transmitter. It works as a sort of "live TV", first takes the waves that come into it, and then convert them into the image and sound that make up a complete picture. "Later, in December 2001, three Dutch scientists from the hospital Riyensteyt under Pim Van Lommel conducted the most extensive study to date of survivors of clinical death. Its results were published in the article "Okolosmertelny experience surviving" after cardiac arrest: study focused specifically formed group in the Netherlands "in the British medical journal" The Lancet. "Dutch scientists have come to conclusions similar conclusions to their English counterparts from Southampton.Based on the statistical data obtained during the decade, the researchers found: visions attend not every person who has survived clinical death. Only 62 people (18%) of 344, 509 underwent intensive care, maintaining a clear recollection of what they experienced during the time between death and "resurrection."During the period of clinical death, more than half of the subjects experienced positive emotions. Realization of the fact of his own death was noted in 50% of cases. In 32% of the so-called "near-death experience" is a meeting with the dead people. On the flight through the tunnel to tell a third dying. Picture of an alien landscape seen almost as many respondents. Phenomena out of body experience (when a person sees himself on the side) experienced 24% back to life. Brilliant flash of light was fixed the same number of respondents. In 13% of cases of people watched a succession of pictures of rushing past life. Talked about what they had seen the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead, at least 10% of people. None of the other world have visited did not disclose frightening or unpleasant sensations. Particularly impressive is that the visual impressions told congenitally blind people, they repeated the story is literally sighted.It is interesting to note that some time before the American researcher Dr. Ring made an attempt to find out the contents of the blind deathbed visions. He together with his colleague Sharon Cooper recorded testimony of 18 people, blind from birth, who for some reason was able to close to death.According to respondents, the dying visions became their only opportunity to understand what it means to see. One had been in a state of clinical death, Vicki Yumipeg survived "out of body" in the hospital. Vicki from above looked at myself lying on the operating table, and a team of doctors who conducted the intensive care unit. Since she first saw and understood what is light.Blind from birth Marsha Martin, experienced a similar deathbed visions, remember most of all variety of colors in the world. Martin believes that near-death experience has helped him to understand how they see the world of the sighted people.But back to the study of Dutch scientists. They set a goal - to determine exactly when the man had visions during clinical death or at the time of the brain. Lammel Wang and his colleagues claim that they managed to do. The conclusion of scientists is: vision observed at the moment of "disconnect" the central nervous system. Thus, it was shown that the mind exists independently of the brain.Perhaps the most striking Van Lammel said case, which revealed one of his colleagues. Patient in a coma, was taken to the intensive care ward of the clinic. Measures to revive were unsuccessful. Brain dead, encephalogram is a straight line. Decided to use intubation (the introduction of the larynx and trachea tube for ventilation and airway management). In the mouth of the victim was dentures. The doctor took it and put it on the table. After a half hour of the patient's heart beat and blood pressure returned to normal. A week later, when the same worker are carried by patients medicines, back from the dead, said to her: "Do you know where my dentures! You took my teeth and put them in a drawer table on wheels!" During a thorough survey found that the victim was watching myself lying on the top bunk. He described the house and the doctors at the time of his death. The man was afraid that doctors will stop excitement, and all the forces wanted to make it clear to them that he is alive ...His belief that consciousness can exist apart from the brain, Dutch researchers confirm the purity of the experiment. In order to exclude the possibility of so-called false memories (situation where a person, hearing the stories of other postmortem visions suddenly "remember" what he never had), religious fanaticism, and other similar cases, the researchers carefully examined all the factors that could affect reports on the victims.All respondents were mentally healthy. These were men and women from 26 to 92 years, with different levels of education, those who believe and do not believe in God. Some people have heard before about the "near-death experience", others - no.Dutch general conclusions are: posthumous vision in people occur during the suspension of the brain, they can not explain the lack of oxygen in the cells of the central nervous system to a depth of "near-death experience" is greatly influenced by gender and age of the person. Women generally experience more intense feelings than men, the majority of patients who had the most profound experience of "death", die within a month after resuscitation; posthumous vision blind from birth do not differ from the impressions of the sighted.All of the above gives grounds to say that at the present time, scientists have come close to the scientific substantiation of immortality.What we need to do just a little bit to realize that death is just a transfer station on the border of two worlds, and to overcome the fear of its inevitability.