LIFE AFTER DEATH

LIFE AFTER DEATH Immortal Soul CONSCIOUSNESS may continue even after death, scientists now believe. Doctors claim to have found scientific evidence that patients have had experiences of an afterlife when they were clinically dead. Research suggests the mind may continue to exist after the brain has ceased to function and the body is clinically dead, with no pulse, no respiration and fixed dilated pupils. Similar to sleep are those instances resulting from a mishap where a person briefly ‘dies’ and then wakes up again after a while. Such accounts have been found in many cultures and have been reported throughout history. In earlier times such cases were related as unbelievable or inexplicable. In present days however, medical studies conducted and documented on such cases provide mounting evidence that man has a separate and distinct existence from his body; an enduring existence that remains even when separated from the body. These instances provide observable evidence that that the mind continues to exist after death. Scientists at the University of Southampton conducted a four-year study of 2,060 cardiac arrest patients. The research spanned cases at 15 hospitals in the UK, U.S and Austria. Findings revealed that nearly 40 per cent of the 330 patients who survived, described some kind of ‘awareness’ during the period when they were clinically dead and before their hearts were resuscitated. They explicitly recalled ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ events after their hearts had stopped. Known medical explanations cannot account for these out-of-body sensations. One in ten heart attack patients experienced emotions, visions and lucid thoughts during their unconscious state with no pulse and breathing activity, say the researchers. Dr. Sam Parnia, a former Southampton University research fellow now based at the State University of New York, who led the study, said: ‘The evidence thus far suggests that in the first few minutes after death, consciousness is not annihilated. Whether it fades away afterwards, we do not know, but right after death, consciousness is not lost.’ There has been observable evidence that that the mind continues to exist after death.