On the brink of death, people experience a unique conscious experience

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The experiences associated with the onset of death were studied by scientists through a study of the experiences of patients who experienced cardiac arrest.

The authors of the new study, scientists representing New York University, stated:

“Every fifth person who experienced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after cardiac arrest can describe conscious experiences of death.”

They analyzed the condition of 567 women and men who had a cardiac arrest. All of them were patients in American and British hospitals who had been seeing doctors for several years.

20 percent of patients who were on the verge of death were able to remember and describe their feelings quite well.

“A feeling of separation from the body, observing events without pain or suffering as if from the outside, a meaningful assessment of life, including one’s actions, intentions, and thoughts about others,” the researchers listed.

The scientists emphasized that near-death experiences are different from hallucinations. The main discovery of scientists was that they found that a person who is dying experiences bursts of brain activity in the form of activation of various brain waves.

According to experts, such brain activity is usually observed when solving complex intellectual tasks. Scientists see it as evidence of the existence of near-death experiences, which are the product of intense conscious activity.

“Our results suggest that, while on the verge of death and in a coma, people experience a unique internal conscious experience,” they emphasized.