LONDON: Life after death, at least for a little while, is for real.
British scientists have confirmed such evidence in the first and largest ever medical study carried out on the subject.
Experts currently believe that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping beating — and that it is not possible to be aware of anything at all once that has happened.
But scientists in the new study said they heard compelling evidence that patients experienced real events for up to three minutes after this had happened - and could recall them accurately once they had been resuscitated.Recollections in relation to death, so-called out-of-body experiences (OBEs) or near-death experiences (NDEs), are an often spoken about phenomenon which have frequently been considered hallucinatory or illusory in nature - however, objective studies on these experiences have been limited.
In 2008, a large-scale study involving 2060 patients from 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria was launched.