What happens to us when we die has probably come across a lot of people’s thoughtsGetty Images
The personal experience of death remains a complex and often mysterious aspect of human existence.
”These waves activate parts of the brain associated with memory and consciousness and this can continue for up to two minutes after death.”
Specifically, following official cardiac death: “The brain electricity’s not just going, there’s a massive explosion of activity, similar to dreaming brain waves, similar to expansive memory brain waves.”
“The first few minutes after our heart stops beating, where historically we’ve thought, this is the time of death, the brain is having its final moment, maybe its best moment.”