{"id":267,"date":"2025-09-06T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/06\/brain-after-death-is-fascinating\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:46:00","slug":"brain-after-death-is-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/06\/brain-after-death-is-fascinating\/","title":{"rendered":"Two comatose patients were taken off life support. What happened in their brains stunned scientists."},"content":{"rendered":"

The one thing we all have in common is death<\/a>. It’s inevitable, and yet it’s under-studied and often overlooked by many in the scientific community,<\/a> even though it’s the crux (or the bane, depending on who you ask) of existence.<\/p>

A staggering number of people have reported Near Death Experiences (NDEs) after certain criteria were met. This includes, but is not limited to, seeing a bright light, feeling disassociated from one’s body, and feeling a sense of overwhelming peace. In fact, according to research<\/a>, studies show that one in ten people report having had a NDE.<\/p>

More and more researchers are taking notice and using these self-described NDEs as roadmaps for their empirical studies of what physically happens in the brain as we’re dying .<\/p>

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Death and dying are a fascinating, perplexing puzzle for doctors and researchers. In 2024 article<\/a> for The Guardian <\/em>titled, “The new science of death: \u2018There\u2019s something happening in the brain that makes no sense,\u2019” author Alex Blasdel discusses the focused curiosity Jimo Borjigin, Ph.D., a professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, has on the topic. “She had read about the near-death experiences of certain cardiac-arrest survivors who had undergone extraordinary psychic journeys before being resuscitated. Sometimes, these people reported travelling outside of their bodies towards overwhelming sources of light where they were greeted by dead relatives. Others spoke of coming to a new understanding of their lives, or encountering beings of profound goodness.”<\/p>

The thing of it is, one doesn’t have to have a belief in a “higher” power to experience these events. A self-described atheist has given many talks and interviews about her experience.<\/p>

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