What counts as dead?

Today, where a definition of the moment of death is required, doctors and coroners usually turn to “brain death” or “biological death” to define a person as being dead; people are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases.

Has anyone came back to life?

A 65-year-old man in Malaysia came back to life two-and-a-half hours after doctors at Seberang Jaya Hospital, Penang, pronounced him dead. He died three weeks later. Anthony Yahle, 37, in Bellbrook, Ohio, USA, was breathing abnormally at 4:00 a.m. on 5 August 2013, and could not be woken.

How do you know if a person is Dead or Alive?

“Brain-dead” patients are warm and flexible; have a beating heart; and have normal coloring, temperature, and blood pressure. Dead patients are cold and stiff, and don’t respond to anything. “Brain-dead” patients require general anesthesia when their organs are being harvested.

Can a person remember death?

Their recollections were also verified by medical staff who reported their patients could remember the details. Death, in a medical sense, is when the heart stops beating and cuts off blood supply to the brain.

What happens to your consciousness after you die?

Just like the re-make of the 90s cult horror Flatliners, starring Ellen Page, scientists have discovered that a person’s consciousness continues to work after they have died. In the film a group of young doctors conduct a dangerous experiment to see what happens in the afterlife by taking turns to stop their hearts.

Does the mind continue to work after death?

But until now it was not known if the mind kept working after the body had died. Just like the re-make of the 90s cult horror Flatliners, starring Ellen Page, scientists have discovered that a person’s consciousness continues to work after they have died.