Sometimes you get interesting data by accident. You weren’t trying to do research; you were trying to do something else entirely. But the data fall into your lap, so to speak. Do you throw the data away, or share what you’ve found?
This particular incident has taken five years to surface. In 2016, an elderly Canadian was hospitalized with seizures. He was given medication and then the doctors conducted tests to determine the cause of the seizures.
An EEG turned out to be the final test.(2) As the team measured brain waves, the patient underwent a series of seizures, then cardiac arrest, and then death. (The patient had a Do Not Resuscitate order in force.) The EEG collected 15 minutes of data spanning these events.
What did the EEG detect?
- The brain functions for 30 seconds after the heart stops.
- There was a pause in brain activity just after the seizures, and then a “30-second increase in oscillatory activity with relatively high gamma-type brain signals” just prior to heart stoppage.
The second item had been observed previously in a study of dying animals. The patterns are associated with memory recall, and the doctors involved hypothesize that this is the moment of “life passing before one’s eyes.”
Of course, it’s hard to generalize anything from a single individual. However, that’s a donation to science that doesn’t involve removing body parts. It would be interesting to see data from others who die or go through near death experiences with these electrodes attached.
I’d be very curious to know what the brain is doing in the 30 seconds after the heart stops. If there’s a gateway to an afterlife, it’s there.
Sources:
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/when-are-we-really-dead-new-study-sheds-light?utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MNT%20Daily%20News&utm_content=2022-03-08&apid=32823411&rvid=1d7fc4fbc41da35ed0d96c59f74ddf89434ecc148ef542006495aeba1450e27c#Accidental-discovery
- https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/electroencephalogram-eeg
CRAIN'S COMMENTS 
Mr Crain this is fascinating and I saw this when it was first published. I am intrigued by the thought of this and would not be surprised to see activity even longer than 30 seconds but the gamma waves are the highest frequency and amplitude brain activity linked to learning and other things like terror or fear. We know the brain is active during near death experiences and even people who survive coma. Read the book Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, MD a neurosurgeon who became comatose following an infection. Good read. And so was your post.
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Thank you and I will find that book.
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