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Asked by smudgeh101 to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 20 Jun 2016.
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Laura Finney answered on 20 Jun 2016:
Oh wow I’ve just read it and isn’t that interesting?!
I’ve always been unsure but I love the idea of life after death. I also love the idea of heaven and seeing your loved ones after death so I do want to believe it. Whether I do believe or not is still up for debate but I can’t imagine just nothingness forever after death so surely there must be something?!It’s a very difficult question to answer, especially given that article. Thank you for sharing it with us!
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Ruth Patchett answered on 20 Jun 2016:
Interesting article, but for me sadly I do not believe in life after death. But I wonder if our brain is somehow adapted to give us a these feelings of peacefulness when we are dying which in itself is a nice thing. I am not sure we will ever work this out using science and we will have to wait and see 🙂
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Robert Williams answered on 20 Jun 2016:
Life after death is not possible – that is the definition of death.
However everyone who experiences the loss of a family member has different expeiences of death. Sometimes these involve what may appear to be life after death.
All of us retain memories of loved ones who have passed away. That is one of the things that makes us humans.
Some animals [eg Elephants, other mammals] also seem to have these memories too, but experienced in a duifferent way to us. -
Luke Williams answered on 21 Jun 2016:
The issue that I can see is that the research relied entirely upon the interviews of patients when they were clinically dead. There may be a large number of people that they interviewed, but they were all incredibly unreliable witnesses, to say the least.
One approach that I have seen to investigate reports of out of body experiences is that certain wards in America (I think) actually have secretly written things on the top of the walls near the ceiling. The words are positioned in such a manner that it would only be possible to see them from above. Using this technique, I believe out of body experiences were found to be perception issues.
The real kicker in all of this is that as the brain realises it is out of oxygen, it begins to deploy mammoth amounts of chemicals in a last ditch attempt to keep itself alive. Some of these chemicals have a hallucinogenic effect and others I believe have some effect on time perception. This is the more likely reason for these reports.
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