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[Redbeard The Pink]

So, to be perfectly clear, I said doctors (and their equipment) can be wrong sometimes. I didn't say that they don't know how to tell if somebody is dead. No amount of medical training precludes a human being from making mistakes on the job, so even the world's best doctors are capable of occasional errors.


Furthermore, doctors' error is not the only possible explanation I offered for a person appearing dead without actually being dead. I also mentioned the possibility that we might not be currently able to detect and/or understand all levels of life and brain activity. If that were the case, a doctor could mistake a living person for a dead one without it even being his fault.

Another possibility is that the subject is totally dead and having no experiences. The experiences that they claimed to have happened while they were dead happened while they were dying or being resuscitated.

Ah, thanks for reminding me. That's the one I forgot.


Gemini is right, Rik. It's also possible that the "visions" are happening while the person is unconscious, but before or after their vitals dip below what we're able to detect. You have no way of knowing whether these dreams are actually occurring at the moment when brain activity isn't apparent.