1 Corinthians 15:54-55
Brothers and sisters:
When this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility
and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality,
then the word that is written shall come about:
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?
Near-death experiences (NDEs) — events that take place as a person is dying or, in some cases, is already clinically dead — are compelling evidence that there is life after death.
People who have NDEs are called near-death experiencers (NDErs). Medical doctors and other researchers have examined this phenomenon in depth. An excellent book is Evidence of the Afterlife, by Jeffrey Long, M.D. (with Paul Perry).
Among the near-death experiences is the phenomenon of life review, when the life of the dying person flashes before him/her, sometimes as a three-dimensional, panoramic review of everything significant that had happened in the NDEr’s life. From Evidence of the Afterlife, p. 110:
[The NDErs] view themselves from a third-person perspective. They watch themselves interacting with the people in their lives. They see how they treated others and often step into the other person’s place so they know how that person felt when interacting with them….
A spiritual being sometimes accompanies the person who is having the life review. This being may serve as a kind of loving guide…discussing the spiritual ramifications of the events of the NDEr’s life…help[ing] the NDEr put his or her life into perspective….
[L]ife reviews are often one of the most transformative elements of the NDE.
Now, we have scientific evidence of NDE life review.
Joe Pinkstone reports for The Telegraph, Feb. 23, 2022:
Our life may very well flash before our eyes when we are on the brink of death, according to the first recording of a dying brain.
The discovery was made when a patient died while having their brain activity monitored by experts. Electrodes detected an uptick in activity linked to memory recall and dreaming.
Experts believe this backs up reports and accounts from people who have suffered near-death experiences and claim to have seen their life flash before their eyes.
This is the first empirical data from an actual death to support the theory….
The individual who died was an 87-year-old man from Estonia who had been admitted to hospital after a fall.
He was sent for various scans that found a significant brain bleed and an operation was successful. Afterwards, the patient was stable for two days in intensive care.
But he then began to suffer from epileptic seizures, undergoing at least a dozen episodes, so the clinicians organised an EEG — electroencephalography — to help track and treat the haywire brain activity caused by the trauma.
While the EEG was still ongoing, the patient suffered a cardiac arrest and died, with the data being the first and only time the activity of a dying human brain has been recorded.
This gave the doctors and their colleagues a unique opportunity to study what happens in the brain as a person passes over the threshold from life to death.
They saw that at the time of death, brain activity was very similar to what happens when a person is meditating, dreaming, or reliving past memories….
While all brain waves began to dwindle, gamma accounted for a larger than normal percentage. Previous studies have found gamma waves to be responsible for some high-functioning processes and are intrinsically linked to concentrating, dreaming, memory retrieval and conscious perception.
Dr. Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, who had studied this case, told Frontiers Science News: “Through generating oscillations involved in memory retrieval, the brain may be playing a last recall of important life events just before we die, similar to the ones reported in near-death experiences.”
~E
What a fabulous article. I believe that this does occur, and that it is the basis of our personal judgement for the time we spent on Earth. It is rather awe inspiring to think that we will actually “see” each of the instances where we perhaps did not show our most stellar self. God Bless you Dr E for bringing us this most insightful article.