Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during death and suggests an explanation for vivid life recall in near-death experiences.

  • Tony Smehrik@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    This is a dumb journal article to declare that this is the “first time ever” that someone has died while on EEG. It’s not even the first time someone has published a report of someone dying on EEG. The last time I looked I found a journal article from something like 1990. People die on EEG all the time. These people are often in the ICU facing numerous serious health issues like sepsis on top of multi-organ failure. To believe that this is the “first time” is to believe that there has never been someone in the hundreds if not thousands of ICUs and EMUs around the world that have died before now. I hate that this article gets any sort of recognition from the scientific journalism community.