Southampton
University scientists have found evidence that awareness can continue for at
least several minutes after clinical death which was previously thought
impossible
The Telegraph, Sarah Knapton, 7 Oct 2014
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| Some cardiac arrest patients recalled seeing a bright light; a golden flash or the Sun shining Photo: Shaun Wilkinson / Alamy |
Death is a
depressingly inevitable consequence of life, but now scientists believe they
may have found some light at the end of the tunnel.
The largest
ever medical study into near-death and out-of-body experiences has discovered
that some awareness may continue even after the brain has shut down completely.
It is a
controversial subject which has, until recently, been treated with widespread
scepticism.
But
scientists at the University of Southampton have spent four years examining
more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals in the UK,
US and Austria.
And they
found that nearly 40 per cent of people who survived described some kind of
‘awareness’ during the time when they were clinically dead before their hearts
were restarted.
One man
even recalled leaving his body entirely and watching his resuscitation from the
corner of the room.
Despite
being unconscious and ‘dead’ for three minutes, the 57-year-old social worker
from Southampton, recounted the actions of the nursing staff in detail and
described the sound of the machines.
“We know
the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating,” said Dr Sam
Parnia, a former research fellow at Southampton University, now at the State
University of New York, who led the study.
“But in
this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three
minutes into the period when the heart wasn’t beating, even though the brain
typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the heart has stopped.
“The man
described everything that had happened in the room, but importantly, he heard two
bleeps from a machine that makes a noise at three minute intervals. So we could
time how long the experienced lasted for.
“He seemed
very credible and everything that he said had happened to him had actually
happened.”
Of 2060
cardiac arrest patients studied, 330 survived and 140 said they had experienced
some kind of awareness while being resuscitated.
Although
many could not recall specific details, some themes emerged. One in five said
they had felt an unusual sense of peacefulness while nearly one third said time
had slowed down or speeded up.
Some
recalled seeing a bright light; a golden flash or the Sun shining. Others
recounted feelings of fear or drowning or being dragged through deep water. 13
per cent said they had felt separated from their bodies and the same number
said their sensed had been heightened.
Dr Parnia
believes many more people may have experiences when they are close to death but
drugs or sedatives used in the process of rescuitation may stop them remembering.
“Estimates
have suggested that millions of people have had vivid experiences in relation
to death but the scientific evidence has been ambiguous at best.
“Many
people have assumed that these were hallucinations or illusions but they do
seem to corresponded to actual events.
“And a
higher proportion of people may have vivid death experiences, but do not recall
them due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory circuits.
“These
experiences warrant further investigation. “
Dr David
Wilde, a research psychologist and Nottingham Trent University, is currently
compiling data on out-of-body experiences in an attempt to discover a pattern
which links each episode.
He hopes
the latest research will encourage new studies into the controversial topic.
“Most
studies look retrospectively, 10 or 20 years ago, but the researchers went out
looking for examples and used a really large sample size, so this gives the
work a lot of validity.
“There is
some very good evidence here that these experiences are actually happening
after people have medically died.
“We just
don’t know what is going on. We are still very much in the dark about what
happens when you die and hopefully this study will help shine a scientific lens
onto that.”
The study
was published in the journal Resuscitation.
Dr Jerry
Nolan, Editor-in-Chief at Resuscitation said: “Dr Parnia and his colleagues are
to be congratulated on the completion of a fascinating study that will open the
door to more extensive research into what happens when we die.”
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