What do you think about near death experiences? a lot of people claim to see heaven and hell when this happens,but I've heard that people of other religions see different things,but than there is on child who claims he saw heaven and spoke with people who died before he was born and his parents hadn't told him about them,I've been told that with enough blood flow the brain could survive for days after the vital signs stop. Here is the video with the boy I mentioned: There are also atheists who see heaven,but if the brain survives for a little while after the rest of the body dies,than that could just be a dream,my dreams are pretty random and don't always make sense or have anything to do with what I think about,so I won't rule that out. and then there are people who say they leave their bodies and see what's going on around them,and are usually right,what do you think of all if this?
Yes. Either one is dead or one isn't. We can quibble about the definition of 'dead', but we would have to agree that the adjective for the noun 'death' is an absolute state, like perfection, pregnancy or circularity. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Shh! He may be just sleeping.
Actually, I think "dead" is probably as much a legal concept as medical. A body is pronounced "dead" by the medical examiner after all attempts to revive have been made. One could actually have the heart and breathing stop for a few minutes and the person would actually be dead (I think, depending on when brain activity stops) and if they could then be revived they would have come back from the dead. However when all the electro-chemical activity has stopped in the brain there would be no methodology for thought or memories while they were "dead" and the most they would/could remember is the "narrowing white light" experience just before the loss of consciousness (if that). I think the more people think about what would have to happen for an "afterlife" the more they should realize that there is just no possible mechanism for it to occur in the first place. I'm sure studies have been done to a recently deceased human or animal brain looking for either electro-magnetic waves or electro-chemical impulses within or around the brain. I think when people entertain the possibility of an afterlife they do so only because of a lack of knowledge as to how it would have to occur and the less you know the more possible it might seem.
