What Happens After Death According to Science?

We all know that Science is a general field of study that relies on tangible objects as proof. So when it comes about death, you won’t get any explanations as compared to its philosophical counterpart.

Science don’t actually have an answer about what happens to you after death. Thus, life after death remains a huge question in the field of science.

However, science can explain about what’s going to happen to your physical body. Just like any other meat, your body will start to rot unless, it is embalmed or mummified.

Since your body ultimately stop functioning upon your death, it goes the same with your own mind. Thus, this is one of the main basis why most individuals do not believe in the after-life.

Science do not have any conclusion nor did they find any evidence if a dead person will still continue to think. You may suggest that there is NDE (Near Death Experience) and there were already countless number of individuals who experienced it.

What did these people actually experienced isn’t death but “oxygen deprivation”. You have to know that common individuals can experience NDE as long as they get revive within 3 minutes period. Why? It’s because your brain cells can only last such time duration before they get permanent damage.

There is No Life after Death According to Physicist


If you believe in life-after-death then it’s too sad to say that it does not exist according to a well-respected physicist. The after-life is nothing unlike what is claimed by many fanciful beliefs. So when you die, that’s how everything ends about you. Many people actually fear no-life after death which is perhaps the reason why there are many philosophical beliefs to give them hope.

The physicist behind the claim of no-life after death is “Sean Carroll”. He is a highly respected cosmologist and physics professor at the “California Institute of Technology”. Carroll strongly believe in himself that he finally solved the huge debate about the afterlife through his extensive study of the law of physics.

He claimed that, “in order for the after-life to exist, consciousness needs to be separated from our physical body”.

Carroll seem to have a point here. Throughout history, there wasn’t any record about someone being able to separate his consciousness from his own physical body. It really does sound quite impossible to happen. Thus, there is a huge possibility that Carroll is right about his theory.

His further theory suggests that everything on this world are made out of particles of atom and that includes your own thoughts or consciousness.

Atom

Now, the reason why some individuals experience NDE is that, the atoms that are composed of your consciousness tends to remain much longer when it gets separated from your physical body. This also explains the existence of ghosts or spirit of the dead being sighted and even captured on cameras.

It is indeed a very interesting theory by Carroll but there is one huge question from the critics that also gave me a doubt. There is actually no proof that consciousness are made out of atoms.

Hint of the After-Life Based on Scientific Discovery


If Carroll neglect the existence of life after death, his fellow scientists at the “University of Southampton” performed one of the biggest scientific study about death regarding about the after-life.

Cardiac Arrest

What they did was that, they put a lot of effort conducting close observations and examinations to a total of 2000 patients who suffered from cardiac arrests. They were able to perform this study through the participation of 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria.

So what is the result?

Among all those who survived, 40 percent of them claimed that they had experienced complete “awareness and consciousness” of themselves during the time that they were clinically dead.

Most of the patients had emerged themselves into a dream-like state of consciousness. But, there was one among them with different experience. This person recalled himself leaving out of his own physical body as he get to watch the doctors and nurses performed their job at trying to revive him back.

To support his claim, he was able to recount all the details especially the actions performed by the medical staffs in resuscitating him back to life. This also includes the sounds from the environment particularly the sounds generated by the machines.

The person behind this whole scientific research was Dr. Sam Parnia. He was a former researcher of Southampton University but he transferred at the “State of university of New York”.

The main basis of Dr. Parnia’s study about the life after death is due to the reason that “when the heart stopped beating, this results in the brain putting it immediately to halt from functioning”. To be a lot more specific, it will take about 20 to 30 seconds before your brain completely shuts down itself after your heart cease from working.

Despite the 20 to 30 seconds period, conscious awareness persist to continue being experienced by the patients for up to three minutes.

Base on science itself, the brain is the one responsible in generating thoughts and consciousness. In short, when your brain stopped functioning then you should entirely lose your awareness. But through this study, it tells a different perspective.

Moreover, Dr. Parnia theorized about why not all patients didn’t experienced or had very little memories about their awareness while at the state of being clinically dead were probably due to the drugs and sedatives induced to them.

Unlocking the Secret of the After-Life through Patterns


Another researcher, Dr. David Wilde who is a psychologist of the “Nottingham Trent University” do have another different view of unlocking the secret of the after-life.

After Life Pattern

Dr. Wilde is currently collecting data from various individuals who had experiences with NDE and OBE (Out of the body experience). He believes that through a sufficient gathered data, Dr. Wilde or someone with better logical skill can analyze and discover a pattern.

Conclusion

Can you just imagine if science can discover everything about the after-life?

Chances are, you will be able to prepare yourself from what it is about to come when you die but, only if there is a life-after death.

If there is no life-after death that awaits us at the end then perhaps, this will teach all individuals to put so much value into their lives. This would involve learning to enjoy a lot of things that this world has to offer.

But so far, science is still very far from discovering life after death to provide us any solid evidence. Thus, your fate when your die currently all depends on your own psychological belief.

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