What Doctors Have Recorded When a Heart Stops and a Patient Recalls

When a heart stops, the person it belongs to is, by every standard clinical measure, dead.

When a heart stops, the person it belongs to is, by every standard clinical measure, dead.

People who come close to dying in hospitals, car wrecks, mountain falls, childbirth, etc. often describe experiences with striking overlap. The term “near-death experience” was popularized by physician Raymond Moody in his 1975 book Life After Life. Since then, researchers…

Most people assume the brain produces consciousness the way a stomach produces digestion.

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