Consciousness Continues After Death
A major study has found that consciousness continues after a person is clinically dead. Many of us want to know the answer to the question about whether or not we continue on in some way, whether it’s a matter of faith or a matter of curiosity. While this might not seem related to the topics of pets, there is a tie in with my book “Living With Them” and the examination of the biblical references to animals having a spirit and what God tells us. There are a significant number of us who also believe that our pets not only have a spirit but are also conscious of their lives and when it ends.
There are situations that we all face where something happens or has happened that we observe or experience that we know is different from what we expect. As I write “Living With Them”, I have been speaking with many people that have had experiences after the death of their pets that indicate to them – and they believe it – that there is something that continues after death. Whether or not you are a Christian and believe in the afterlife, there is certainly something going on.
The shock research has also uncovered the most convincing evidence of an out of body experience for a patient declared dead.
It had been believed the brain stopped all activity 30 seconds after the heart had stopped pumping blood around the body, and that with that, awareness ceases too.
Lead researcher Dr Sam Parnia said: “Contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment but a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the heart, lungs and brain to cease functioning.
Of the 2,060 patients from Austria, the US and the UK interviewed for the study who had survived cardiac arrest, almost 40 per cent said that they recall some form of awareness after being pronounced clinically dead.
The late Ted Bird, age 22
Ambrose Butterbutt, age 16
Peanut Butter, age 16
Little Ted Bird, age 6 months
The late Sweetie Pie
The late Sweetie Pie