When you die you know you’re dead because the brain keeps functioning and you know what’s happening around you, chilling new research suggsts. Medical experts have long debated what happens when a person dies, with anecdotal evidence of bright lights or sensations, and films such as Flatliners exploring the unknown.But a new study suggests a person’s consciousness keeps
working after their heart stops beating and their body movements fail. Cardiac arrest survivors were aware of what was going on around them while they were ‘dead’ –
including seeing doctors trying to save them or hearing conversations – before being ‘brought back to life’, the study revealed.It means that a person may even hear their time of death,
being announced by medics as they are essentially ‘trapped’ inside their body with brain function.Dr Sam Parnia is studying consciousness after death and examining cardiac arrest cases in Europe and the US.
