Did You Know Your Brain Lives On After Death? Here’s What Happens

There are many theories surrounding the concept of consciousness. You might have heard about how people with near-death experiences have reported seeing a flash of white light as if entering a tunnel. Why is it common to have a flashback of your entire life played out before possible death, are these a result of a metaphysical aspect of the brain or just the result of brain physiology. Leaving out the perspective of the mystery of consciousness, the divine and the metaphysical element of which there is much debate, science and physiology proves that your brain lives on after death. It remains functioning for at least ten minutes after the body shuts down. Here is a step by step explanation of what happens.

1After You Die Your Brain Continues To Work for Ten Minutes

Our concept of death is based upon a lifeless body devoid of function. A heart that has stopped working, a person who has stopped breathing, the circulatory system stops, the respiratory system stops and coronary failure. These are our perceived indicators of death but did you know there is much more than it appears to be? That if such things happen, you aren’t really dead.

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2Even If Your Heart Is Dead, Your Brain Continues To Work

Although your heart may have stopped, your brain continues to work and could possibly be the last part of your body to die.

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3Your Brain Will Receive a Surge of Electricity before Death

Scientists are yet to explain why this happens. This could be the probable reason why people with near death experiences have reported seeing a flash of white light as if coming from a tunnel. Now if we were to engage in a discussion involving a perception beyond what science could explain, then could one safely say this is your subconscious making one last ditched effort to power up your body. 

Just as dreams are a result of a brain interpreting life’s incidents in a surreal and abstract way, then perhaps when seeing this flash of light, one shouldn’t really extend an urge to move towards it as it logically could signify an urge to resign oneself to death. Perhaps if we pulled away, it could somehow empower our bodies to respond to the efforts being made by emergency attendants in the real world trying to shock your heart to resume again. Once again, since science can’t explain the light, interpretations could be varied.

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4After Your Heart and Breathing Stops, You Could Be Conscious Between 2 To 20 Seconds

In this time, although your brain begins to lose oxygen it is still conscious because your cerebral cortex can last even without oxygen. The cerebral cortex is your area of the brain that enables your thoughts and decision making. It also collects all the information gathered by your senses and converts them into actions.

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