A tech article with a difference – Update Feb. 25, 2022
After this post went live, Matthew Wright from New Zealand sent me the link to a radio interview with the researcher who made this discovery. Fascinating stuff:
cheers,
Meeks
Death is not something any of us like to think about. Perhaps that’s why we try to hide the signs of ageing so much, but now the New Atlas has published research about the last moments of a person’s life – and the research seems to show that those moments involved parts of the brain associated with dreaming and memories.
Entitled “First-ever recording of dying human brain reveals dream-like activity“, the article goes on to describe how researchers were monitoring the brain of an 87 year old epilepsy patient when he/she suddenly had a heart attack and died. Not from the monitoring I should add!
The researchers recorded about 15 minutes of brain activity:
‘They focused in on the 30 seconds either side of when the heart stopped beating, and detected increased activity in types of brain waves known as gamma oscillations. These are involved in processes such as dreaming, meditation and memory retrieval, giving a glimpse into what a person may be experiencing during their final moments.’
https://newatlas.com/medical/first-recording-dying-human-brain-activity/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8e1bc84bfc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_02_22_11_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-8e1bc84bfc-92416841
One, single recording doesn’t prove a thing, especially as the patient suffered from epilepsy so their brain was hardly ‘normal’, but the mere thought that the research might be true gives me a strange sense of comfort. I’m in no danger of dying, but I sat with my father for the last two days of his life, and I hope that he passed gently and in peace. I hope that’s how I go too…in about 30 odd years time. 
I hope none of you have found this post to be morbid. It wasn’t meant to be.
Huge hugs,
Meeks
