Fanfuckingtastic! We all need to find out where he is and have the loudest party ever right outside the building

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When it's time....
Cheer LOUDER!!! 👍😄

But seriously it makes sense, the chemistry infrastructure is in place even as the oxygen stops. I bet two AA batteries would keep me going for a week at least. Of course getting medicine to actually do this will require some serious adjustments to my will and perhaps lots of lawsuits.

are they trying to tell us that not just brain activity, but brain activity sufficient to maintain consciousness, is possible for hours after cardiac arrest?

Should be an easy thing to test (for brain activity) but I am seriously doubtful it is true.

A 2019 study found that “the brain is able to fire electrical signals many minutes after death, or even hours if preserved”.

Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at New York University, said it is likely that the last thing heard by many people who die in hospital is the doctor uttering the words “time of death” as they remain conscious for longer than expected.

• On the paradise island where millionaires go to avoid death (and taxes)

A 2023 study in the Resuscitation journal found that “consciousness, awareness and cognitive processes may occur during cardiac arrest” for up to an hour while CPR is being performed.

Fowler said that death should be considered to have different phases, arguing: “You have stage three cancer, stage two cancer. Well, there are stages of death.”

My belief? Our consciousness is more than just neurotransmitters and hormones stuck in our brain. Exciting times. I hope more research is done into this.

pronounced dead. Poe's short story - 'The Premature Burial' (1844), about a man who lives in terror of being buried and waking up in a coffin - gave me nightmares as a child. Turns out I'm both taphophobic and claustrophobic.

"The Cask of Amontillado" - I remember being freaked out. By it as a kid!

I think I'd better share that with my family; I'd like to go on my own time.

Those who know, know

Which is nice.

He had bacterial meningitis and was placed in a coma. He remembered his NDE and so do others. Neurosurgeon, so he did get intense care by other neurosurgeons, who kept hands off the plug.

I am content to read about this and skip the lab.

Dear Floyd, everything in your link after and including the question mark is an unnecessary tracker that may contain PII, or not. Just saying.

Doesn't mean you are going want to be alive again in that damaged brain your consciousness would wake up in after being revived minutes to hours after you stop breathing. I'd imagine that for now this would be something that matters only for select scenarios?

As a YUUUGE fan of the zombie genre, I'm waiting for this research to lead us swiftly to a zombie apocalypse!

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Your loved one may hear the words to give them a real awakening.

Rigor mortis often begins around two hours.

There's been several informal experiments conducted to ascertain consciousness after guillotining. Amazingly, a fairly recent study was undertaken here.

...get back to you with the results of the investigation.

I contracted viral encephalitis in 1991. Apparently, according to those who worked on me, I died multiple times through cardiac arrest. I was revived each time and woke up three days later in the hospital in Palm Springs. At no time during those three days do I remember a damned thing at all. Nothing. I woke up wondering where I was and WTF was going on.

Everything simply went dark until I came out of the coma I was in.

Did I have deficits? That was my question, so I started testing myself in the hospital bed. Nobody was paying any attention to me most of the time so, I was trying to assess my mental capabilities.

I found one deficit. I no longer had any ability to remember the multiplication tables. Gone, completely. It took me about four hours to mentally use addition to rebuild those tables in my brain. Kept me busy for a few hours, but the deficit went away. Nothing else was lost.

But, there is absolutely nothing in my head from the time I had the first cardiac arrest until I woke up in the hospital three days later. Nothinng.

A couple of weeks later, I returned to my work and only missed one month of my magazine column.