‘The brain may be playing a last recall of important life events just before we die.’
We’re all familiar with life flashing before our eyes when we die.
But it would be nice to understand the thoughts that will be with us in our final moments before we depart this world.
In an attempt to understand this more, scientists measured the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient during his passing.
The elderly man had developed epilepsy, and the team was able to use an electroencephalogram (EEG) test to record his brain waves 15 minutes after he died from a heart attack.
Dr. Ajmal Zemmar, a co-author of the study, based in Vancouver, Canada at the time, said that the first-ever recording of a dying brain was purely by accident.
‘This was actually totally by chance, we did not plan to do this experiment or record these signals,’ he said.
