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Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Souls, and Atheism
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RE: Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Souls, and Atheism
(November 21, 2011 at 1:28 am)Willpower Wrote: Re: Shell B

My question is regarding cardiac arrest patients. How do they have long and vivid "hallucinations?"

If you real my last post, I explained, in more detail, that for cardiac arrest patients:
"After the heart stops beating due to a significant reduction of blood flow, the pressures across the entire body and within the arteries and the veins reach a point in which they equalise within approximately 50 seconds. Studies have shown that due to a lack of heart beat and blood flow there is a cessation of brain electrical activity within approximately 10 seconds. This simply reflects a lack of brain function that is brought about due to a lack of blood flow into the brain. Brain oxygen levels are then depleted within approximately 2 minutes and if the blood flow is not restarted to the brain, the cells start to undergo changes which will ultimately lead to cell damage and then cell death. The first thing that happens is that the brain cells undergo a state of shock and this is brought about by a lack of oxygen."

Feel free to look it up. If you search google: "The Brain During Cardiac Arrest," you will see that what I am saying is accurate. The above quote is an excerpt from the Horizon Research Foundation: http://www.horizonresearch.org/main_page.php?cat_id=84.

There is no brain function nor electrical activity within patients who have cardiac arrest, as medical research demonstrates and concurs.

You didn't have to repeat yourself. Again, how do they have "long and vivid" hallucinations? Define long.



Quote:--People go into cardiac arrest while on bed-watch in the hospital.

Yes. How often do you think brain activity ceases for any significant period of time and does not result in actual death? How much brain activity do you think the EEG actually reads? How does a person who is dead for a mere moment or two have a near death experience that lasts a long time? How do we know that the experience did not occur during the inevitable unconscious time that preceded or followed the momentary loss of readable brain activity?
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RE: Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Souls, and Atheism - by Shell B - November 21, 2011 at 1:39 am

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