can we live without brain?
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How long would you be able to live without your head?
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Terry Lovelace
Answered June 13, 2018
Let me begin with the disclaimer that I’m not religious or particularly spiritual.
The issue isn’t how long you would “live.” without a head. I believe if you are decapitated your blood pressure drops to zero and blood flow to the brain stops. “Life” is tricky to define but I would say life ends at that point. The greater question is the survival of consciousness after the minute or two of oxygenated blood is used-up by the brain and your electroencephalogram flat-lines.
There is an oncologist who is studying, “the near death experience,” a/k/a NDE. His name is Dr, Jeffrey Long and his research allegedly shows that
(1) Consciousness does not reside in the brain but is somewhere separate from the physical body, and
(2) Consciousness survives death and travels on to meet a divine being and then reunited with ancestors.
He has documented cases of people who can recall details of events going on in the room around them while they are clinically dead. He gives examples of people who are resuscitated by CPR and can recall being outside and above their physical body while clinically dead, looking down at the resuscitation efforts. What’s most intriguing is that some people can recall events and conversations that took place while they were clinically dead. He claims this is possible because consciousness survives physical death. If you’re interested research NDEs and Dr. Jeffrey Long and you’ll find the whole story.
Maybe it’s where ancestor worship originated?
I know all the arguments that “dead is dead,” and anyone resuscitated has not experienced true death. So, there’s no evidence to prove how long this experience lasts. Some of the stories are compelling. It’s a controversial subject and I am not drawing a conclusion one way or another.
He wrote a New York Times Bestseller, Evidence of the Afterlife. I read both of his books and I’ll remain neutral in this forum. He’s a well credentialed and intelligent physician and does his best to craft an argument that would make it through the peer review process. Someday, we will know if he was right.
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no we can't live without brain as it consist of module oblongata which controls our involuntary activities