Life After Death Is Impossible, Says Scientist

[Brian37]

Permanent death is beyond repair.

You cannot hold this belief while simultaneously ascribing the origins of life to one form of abiogenesis or another. 

As my neuroscience professor would say―life is disequilibrium. It is the separation of various homeostatic properties (such as temperature, fluid concentrations, pressure, etc.) from the environment. Once the distinction with the environment is lost, and equilibrium is reached, death has occurred. Restoring life is as simple, or as complicated, as restoring disequilibrium with the environment.

Ok, see if you can get 1000 people with another 1000 as a control group. Get one control group of 500 to agree to having their heads put in a guillotine and agree to have their heads chopped off completely free from their bodies. Then get the other 500 to agree to being put under with a mild anesthesia and see how many of each come back to 100% normal. Doubt you'd get any sane person to agree to be part of the guillotine group.

You will never find an example in medical history where a dead bloated body say, that has sat in an apartment for weeks, or a dead bloated body that has been dead for the same time out in the hot desert come back to life. 

I watched my late mother take her last breath in a nursing home. It is a horrifying thing for any person to witness. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. But when she died, she didn't come back. She didn't go anywhere, she isn't in a fictional heaven, or fictional hell. She "her brain" is gone and the only place she exists now, are in the memories of those who knew her.

When your brain dies, it has a neurological dump, basically a last ditch spasm. It is what causes that so called "bright light" and "seeing your life pass before you." If one is lucky enough they can be pulled out of that if there isn't enough brain damage. But, what I saw watching my mother I knew it was the brain shutting down like a dimmer switch at first going bright, then slowly fading out to off.  The brain stem controls basic functions and is normally the last part of the brain to die. When she got to that point, the last thing on her body to move were her lips. Her brain stem was putting up that last futile fight to keep her breathing. As morbid as it sounds, it would be no different if one were to step on a daddy long leg spider and the legs twitch for a couple of seconds after you step on it. I hate being bluntly honest about this, but I will not coddle superstitions in facing that harsh reality. I loved my mother more than anyone else in the world. 

But if you blow your brains out, like in a suicide, your brain will not have the opportunity to go through that shut down stage, you'd simply be skipping it. And NO, I am not suggesting anyone test that. I am simply stating the physical reality. 

Death is an unfortunate part of life. But we all die. Surviving something does not mean you survive forever. If you survive an event, it merely means your brain was not beyond irreversible damage. My late mother didn't jump out of the casket at the funeral home. Her brain died, it was not alive when she was cremated. I'd give anything to have her back, but there is no magic to life or death.