Is There Life After Death?

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This short piece was written by David Gutierrez and featured in “Natural News”. I thought you might find it interesting.

In the largest such study ever conducted, researchers have found evidence that consciousness continues even after brain activity has ceased. This evidence of life after death came from a study led by researchers from the University of Southampton and published in the journal Resuscitation. The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study sought to use the scientific method to investigate the experiences typically described by the imprecise terms near-death experience (NDE) and out-of-body experience (OBE). Researchers interviewed 2,060 patients who had survived cardiac arrest from 15 hospitals across Austria, the United Kingdom and the U.S. The researchers found that 39 percent of cardiac arrest survivors interviewed described a sense that they had been “aware” following cardiac arrest. Of those who reported a perception of awareness, only 2 percent described an experience consistent with the popular idea of an Out of Body Experience, such as seeing or hearing events taking place around their bodies. Nine percent reported experiences consistent with the popular idea of an Near Death Experience, such as feelings of warmth or the presence of a light. Forty-six percent, however, reported experiences that were not consistent with either an OBE or an NDE, including fearful or persecutory experiences.