Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during death and suggests an explanation for vivid life recall in near-death experiences.
This is a dumb journal article to declare that this is the “first time ever” that someone has died while on EEG. It’s not even the first time someone has published a report of someone dying on EEG. The last time I looked I found a journal article from something like 1990. People die on EEG all the time. These people are often in the ICU facing numerous serious health issues like sepsis on top of multi-organ failure. To believe that this is the “first time” is to believe that there has never been someone in the hundreds if not thousands of ICUs and EMUs around the world that have died before now. I hate that this article gets any sort of recognition from the scientific journalism community.
The article does not say that this is the first time ever that someone has died while on EEG, but that this is the first time that someone has died while on EEG with a high-density electrode array that allows for a detailed analysis of the brain waves. The article also acknowledges that there have been previous reports of EEG recordings of dying patients, but they were either limited by low spatial resolution, short duration, or lack of behavioral data. The article claims that this is the first study to provide a comprehensive and multimodal description of the brain activity and behavior of a dying person.
Might be an interesting way to die. If you are in hospice agree to be hooked up and have them scan your final moments. Maybe something useful in terms of medical science comes out of it. Also I love sci-fi so I firmly believe if this happens future people can and will bring me back to solve a problem only I can solve and I will have a street smart tough as nails super cop sidekick.
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I just tried to edit your comment. Now I feel like a dumbass.
Well I got a chuckle out of it at least.
… could it be the first time ever this has been analyzed intentionally?
Doubtful. People have been dying for a long time. Non-dying people have always wanted to know what dying is like, so I’m sure there have been countless attempts at gathering measurable data of those in their last moments of life.
So we could say that when people die, they experience a…
*Puts On Sunglasses*
Total Recall
YEEEEAAAHHH!!!
I read that like it was the intro to CSI Miami
I read this on the internet (maybe erowid? Lol) forever ago so who knows: but I heard your brain releases dumb amounts of DMT right as you die, which is also a chemical your brain elicits while dreaming
Think I heard about this as well. It has to do with oxygen delivery or something. Your brain is running low on oxygen so it releases a chemical that brings it more and that chemical breaks down into DMT.
Does anyone in the bio field here know about this?
So they see their life flashing before them?
Sounds like it:
“Through generating oscillations involved in memory retrieval, the brain may be playing a last recall of important life events just before we die, similar to the ones reported in near-death experiences,” Zemmar speculated.
Perhaps the brain - in a last attempt to save its life - searches every situation that it has ever experienced to try to find survival tips.
Maybe it’s making a final upload to the cloud.
Maybe it’s making a final upload to the cloud.
Maybe they’re highlights on the game over screen.
It’s the credits screen.
YOUR LIFE
Written and directed by George Lucas
Etc etc you get it
Dwayne Dibley?!
Jesus, I think of that episode way too much. Mine would be some corporate suit who doesn’t know how to do anything except look good for meetings, dumb as dogshit, a total yes-man, got his job because of his dad, hates children, and was prissy.
Patrick Bateman sans violence.
I was caught in a rip current, in close to zero Celsius salt water, with significant waves as a teenager. My wetsuit was inadequate, to say the least, and my surfboard was lost because the leash failed (think of it as a flotation device).
I was sure I was going to die. I didn’t. But, yeah, every single second of my life was screaming through my brain while I pleaded with any force in the universe to save me.
I eventually got control of my breathing and swam across the rip and let the waves take me in. I was cold for a long time.
That was my first time surfing. Wasn’t my last but I learned a lot that day.
The that took me there and loaned me the gear didn’t even go in the water (said he was right behind me).
Where it will promptly remember I did fuck all and survived
Or, your favorite jerk off material. It’s fifty fifty.
I can certainly see this as evolutionarily beneficial. When you’re on the verge of dying and you suddenly have a recall of a lot of your experiences in life it may lead to you being able to survive.
I guess I won’t since I have SDAM.
I can’t believe I haven’t heard of that before! I thought my memory was just ordinarily bad, but reading about it I definitely have that.
Nobody knows, and anyone who tells you they know is guessing.
Heart attack scene from Brainstorm
Heart attack scene from Brainstorm
VR “sex” scene from Demolition Man.
VR “sex” scene from Lawnmower Man
