First scan of a dying human brain shows life flashes before eyes

Doctors studying a patient’s brain during a seizure ended up accidentally capturing brain scans as the man suffered a fatal heart attack and died during the scan. The man’s brain data reveals that people might indeed have their whole life flash in front of their eyes when they die. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings.
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[afs]

My friend who had an accident but luckily recovered and is absolutely healthy now, narrates his story; when he had the accidental injury; right before going unconcious, he remembered his entire life, all his deeds and everything he did in his life untill then.

[tobiisiba]

This makes me feel happy knowing my dad died with his best memories 😭😭😭😭😭, I can't think of anything more comforting than this.thank you.

[violetadams]

My mother was dying and I was with her and held her hand as she was passing. The doctor came in and interrupted her passing as I told him her brain was still alive and I was comforting her . He would not leave us and just said she was dead . I told him the brain is the longest organ to die. My Mother knew I was there right till the very end . God Bless

[Sophie-uihi]

During the last days of her life, my mom was coming in and out of consciousness. I'd like to believe that she saw only happy memories during her last moments because when I saw her body, she was smiling.

[krokodyl]

For what its worth, obviously I’m not dead or near dead, but the older I get (close to 70) the more pleasant past memories flood my brain frequently at any given time out of the blue. There are fortunately less frequent painful memories as well. I attribute this to the human condition. When working as an RN, I took care of many older folks and they all had pleasant memories to share with me. I wish that I had had more time to spend with them.

[Ser_Pluto]

Great explanation....I hope everyone sees their best life moments before they pass

[Xavierpng]

But an epileptic's brain might be different from a brain that has not suffered from epilepsy. Also, if the person was actually having an epileptic fit during the heart attack his brain scan may be behaving differently to that of someone who has a heart attack not brought about by epilepsy.

[charlieevergreen]

I had an NDE when I was eight, with meningitis. My life did “flash before my eyes”, as we say; it was a rapid fire replay of all sorts of experiences. I believe my brain was sensing the mortal threat, and was cross-referencing all of my experience, in an attempt to find a survival solution. I have more to say, but that’s the gist of my point.

[JonJonChannel]

That explains why my grandmother was talking to herself about her life before she passed away.

[bhoirabdevil]

I had an accident in 2005. I clearly saw the best moment of my life flush by before I became unconscious.
That 20 to 30 second showed me the best moments, the closest people, the best feelings, places and then dark.
Every frame is still fress in my memory...

[kipling]

So this was an MRI simultaneously with an EEG? I’m confused.

Update: Having reviewed the original paper, it’s clear the patient was being monitored by EEG alone during the incident. EEG is not a scan. The term scan normally indicates anatomical imaging of some sort, and in the case of MRI for example, sometimes with functional changes such as blood flow that correlates with brain activity. Hence, functional MRI (fMRI). None of this took place in this instance with this patient. Yet the video continually shows what appears to be an fMRI image of the head. This is very misleading. No such scan took place and the image is most likely generic. This is not to say that the EEG information in itself is not of interest, or the original research paper is not worth reading. However, the way the case is presented here is deceptive, clearly intended to heighten interest (and clicks) from a (mostly) scientifically naive audience.

[MoiAussie]

I had a NDE and yes my life flashed through my head. I was suffocating from a blood blockage in my airway after surgery and the suffocating was not nice but the NDE was. Also while giving birth to my third baby my mother appeared in the upper left hand corner of the room, she was there very clearly to me but sort of hovering, I was in Australia andshe was in England, I was told the next day my mother had passed the day before I delivered my baby. Her presence there was real. I’m only 70 this year but I’m not frightened by death at all. I’m ready.

[tanmoyeerabha]

The fact that I'll see my life before dying would make me depressed all over again

[ianmclaughlin]

My wife passed away in 2016 and I can only hope that she viewed all the good and happy memories of her life in those last seconds. I only wish that we had many more good moments in our life together for her to view. I guess I am typing this as I hope anyone that reads this does something great and creates as many happy and good memory's possible. Enjoy each and every moment as much as you can, life is short.

[oneandzero]

I had a near death experience when I was a teenager. I was living in the middle-east because my father's work made us move around. One time me and my best friend started digging tunnels in a huge sand dune. You would think the sand would just instantly cover up when digging, but at night and morning there is close to 100% humidity, and it soaked up into the dunes. And the outer layer of sand is a good insulator.
Back to topic. I dug a tunnel a bit too far. Longer my than my body. Suddenly I got a feeling or intuition that this might not be a good idea. So I started backing out as fast as possible...And as soon as my legs stuck out from the tunnel, everything collapsed onto me. It had by luck not collapsed around my head, so I had an air pocket. Anyway my friend noticed it and started digging and trying to get me out. Trying to pull someone out covered with lots of sand is more difficult than you would think.
Meanwhile my life flashed in front of me, thinking about my family, my grandparents and my life. What I find strange is that I was not struck by immense fear as you would think. Almost like I accepted my faith because I was powerless by myself.
Another weird thing. I remember my friend digging and pulling me out constantly without stop...He did finally manage to pull me he said he thought I was dead and he had tried to run towards our parents and shout for help. And that was quite a distance. He meant he was gone 20 minutes. I do not know if that is true or not, but I felt like I was only in there for like 2-5 minutes.

[MoiAussie]

My Experience was being suffocated too, I was in the recovery room after nasal surgery, the nurse was trying to wake me but I had blood blocking my airway, I wanted to tell her but I couldn’t, It was so scary but then my life flashed, exactly as you just described. It’s a personal experience that I feel privileged to have had and don’t care at all if people believeor not.

[thecrusader]

Person : wants to die peacefully
Brain : not so fast..
Lemme show you every single mistake you ever did 😬😬

[jeepdan]

I was about 18 years old, I was surfing 15 to 20 foot high waves formed by a hurricane right off the coast of Florida. Shortly after catching a completely vertical wave my board took a nose dive, I fell off the board head first maybe 70 yards from the shore line, the power of the wave kept me under water, I remember feeling completely helpless as I did cartwheels in a fetal position, I was unable to move a muscle much less swim to the top to get a breath of air, the power of the current was phenomenal, a grim feeling of death takes over, at this precise time my life flashed before my eyes, for those of you who’ve never experienced this before it’s just like looking at a photo album of your life from childhood up to the present time at a very high rate of speed and in an extremely vivid and lifelike format, for me it was events and moments that were very impressionable throughout my life going back till about the age of 4. When the wave finally let me go I was in the shoreline and in about 1 foot of water, shaken, scared, and amazed, it took me a while to realize my shorts were around my ankles.

[dt]

I hate how she says "It is actually quite likely true" as if the MRI data was more tennable evidence than ACTUAL HUMANS saying they're ACTUALLY seeing their whole lives flash before there eyes.

[parrsnipps]

I almost drowned at 14 years of age, panicking then blacking out, then my life up to that time flashed before me, but it also had a commentary explaining how important I was to other people. Then as I experienced a great sense of love & joy about where I (my soul) was going next, I wondered if I could survive to live a longer life. I blinked a few times & came to, got untangled, surfaced & took a deep breath. Turns out there is an involuntary reflex in the throat to cut water off from filling the lungs, but it also causes one to black out. Now ask yourself this; why would an organism make you feel good about dying when the primary instinct is to survive? I came away from the experience having gone from agnostic before to believing in God afterwards. There was simply no other explanation, in part due to the loving feeling of the place I felt like I was going. After that incident many past life memories came back to me including time in between lives on the other side. I think we exist in a very interesting Universe.