25 medical centers in Britain and the United States will take part in a large-scale study
Scientists and doctors from 25 medical centers in Britain and the United States will join forces to thoroughly study the experience of 1,500 patients who survived cardiac arrest and clinical death. Large-scale research will prove or overthrow the existence of the phenomenon of "life after death", reports FactNews.
According to the preliminary plan, the study will take place over three years under the supervision of the English University of Southampton.
Some people who have experienced cardiac arrest report very strange things, as if their souls could "fly out" and "look" down at the body and at the doctors. During the experiment, doctors are going to put on the upper shelves in the intensive care unit drawings that can only be seen from the ceiling. Scientists want to analyze the patient's brain activity at the time of clinical death, and then check whether he remembers the test images.
Study leader Dr. Sam Parnia says that if at least one of the survivors of clinical death and experienced "separation of the soul from the body" can correctly describe the test images, it will confirm the possibility of the existence of consciousness apart from the body. If none of the subjects sees the pictures (which, according to doctors, is more likely), then it will be proved that the phenomenon of "life after death" is just false memories or a hallucination caused by the dying of the brain.
“This is a mystery that we may be able to solve from a scientific point of view,” said Pania, an expert in the field of clinical death. "After all, cardiac arrest is an experience that will help us understand what a person experiences in the process of dying."