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The belief in the rebirth after death became the driving force behind funeral practices; for them, death was a temporary interruption rather than complete cessation of life. Eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification , and the provision of statuary and other funerary ...
Cicero also concluded that death was either a continuation of consciousness or cessation of it, and that if consciousness continues in some form, there is no reason to fear death; while if it is in fact eternal oblivion, he will be free of all worldly miseries, in which case he should also not be deeply troubled by death.
If death is not only a stoppage of the heart but a flatlining of brain waves, it's hard to explain how people who flatlined on the operating table can revive and describe to the doctors what they ...
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.
Indeed, the page is called "Conciousness after death" but explains largely the opposite "(in all probability) no consciousness after death". I think my consciousness is gone after I die though, like before I was born. But there are considerations from atheistic/spiritual points of view (Arthur Schopenhauer, Stuart hameroff and Pim van lommel).
After being diagnosed with a painful degenerative disease, a 5-year-old girl made the decision to 'go to heaven' instead of the hospital.
Grief and death are often considered taboo topics, especially when it involves a suicide or homicide, according to research published in the journal Sociology of Health and Illness. Bereavement ...
A 1994 report found that of those who were in a vegetative state a month after a trauma, 54% had regained consciousness by a year after the trauma, whereas 28% had died and 18% were still in the vegetative state. For non-traumatic injuries such as strokes, only 14% had recovered consciousness at one year, 47% had died, and 39% were still ...