Life After Death

[dartagnon]

On the face of it this is a ridiculous question, but here goes.
If someone dies in their sleep, do they know that they are dead?
what I'm thinking is if there has ever been anyone who had effectively been dead, but discovered in the nick of time and brought back to life by CPR or whatever. When interviewed, did they have any recollection of being dead.
Any thoughts especially from the theologians etc...

[Sqad]

dartagnon......I think that we must lay down a few parameters.

To the medical profession death is cessation of heart and brain function based mainly on electrophysiological measurements.....this state is irreversible.....there is no turning back.

I think that your question relates to cardiac arrest....the heart stopping.

Are my assumptions correct?

[jno]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience

[LazyGun]

This guy, Dr. Eben Alexander, makes that claim for himself. He has written a book, and I believe this is being turned into some sort of movie.

Sounds more than a little fanciful with no real evidence to my mind, but I know some believe in this sort of thing...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/11/dr-eben-alexander-proves-need-heaven

[askyourgran]

It would be nice to think it is not the end. My grandfather was a strict Christian and a strongminded man. He fell ill and slipped into a coma for about two weeks, when he awoke he said that he had been with my grandmother and didnt want to leave her, but she had insisted that he go back to us as it wasn't time for him to be there. He died about three years later aged 84. I find it hard to say it was the ramblings of an old man because he was always in full command of his faculties and not one to romance about anything.

[Wak]

You could try watching the TV programs of Sally Morgan?
They may help you to make up your mind.

[yosher]

Two answers for the price of one. The first is philosophical ***, the second, is better. Philosophically you would not be interested in the truth, so here goes. Wether you would know it depends on wether there is a God and an afterlife. If there is, then you would most certainly know something (check out a book by a neurosurgeon who had the esperience-Proof of Heaven), if there is no God or afterlife, then once your neurons shut down you know nothing, no thinking, no memories, no senses of any type. Okay, now for the Truth. Law-matter cannot be created or destroyed, and yet it is here. Proof that something impossible happened. Life comes only from other life, so that fact that anything is alive, is also impoossible, a second impossible thing. Only God can do the impossible, so God exists. You may not remember this existence (see book mentioned above), and you may or may not know of a previous life, but you will know that you are. There are many things we cant see, feel, or touch as we might like but they still exist. God is so obvious isf you know how to look. Believing nothing exploded and rock soup became living stuff that we all somehow evolved from takes alot more faith than God