Energy created nor destroyed.

[Huggy Bear]

Huggy,

No, there are no documented cases of people being conscious while there is no brain activity. All that NDE stuff is lucid dreaming during waking up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Reynolds_case

Pam Reynolds Lowery (1956 – May 22, 2010), from Atlanta, Georgia, was an American singer-songwriter.[1] In 1991, at the age of 35, she stated that she had a near-death experience (NDE) during a brain operation performed by Robert F. Spetzler at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Her experience is one of the most widely documented in near-death studies because of the circumstances under which it happened. Reynolds was under close medical monitoring during the entire operation. During part of the operation she had no brain-wave activity and no blood flowing in her brain, which rendered her clinically dead. She claimed to have made several observations during the procedure which later medical personnel reported to be accurate.

There is a huge difference between a near death experience and just being dead. You might want to look at the Wiki article on that particular quack:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Parnia

And then, of course, you might want to look for more information on near death experiences from reputable sources. Of course, you will likely favor the pseudoscience nonsense sites, since those are the ones that favor your position.

What we're discussing is whether or not consciousness can exist without a functioning brain, which there is plenty of evidence that suggests it can.