Are 'Flatliners' Really Conscious After Death?
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer |
October 4, 2017 07:27am ET
Live Science Driven by ambition and curiosity to learn what lies on the other side of death, five medical students deliberately stop their hearts in order to experience "the afterlife" in the new thriller "Flatliners" (Sony Pictures), which opened in U.S. theaters on Sept. 29.
They quickly discover that there are unexpected and terrible consequences of dallying with death — but not everything they experience after "dying" is in the realm of science fiction. A growing body of research is charting the processes that occur after death, suggesting that human consciousness doesn't immediately wink out after the heart stops, experts say.
But what really happens in the body and brain in the moments after cardiac arrest? ...
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