Brains Of Dying Rats Yield Clues About Near-Death Experiences

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<p>[Brains</a> Of Dying Rats Yield Clues About Near-Death Experiences : Shots - Health News : NPR](<a href=“Brains Of Dying Rats Yield Clues About Near-Death Experiences : Shots - Health News : NPR”>Brains Of Dying Rats Yield Clues About Near-Death Experiences : Shots - Health News : NPR)</p>

<p>I wonder what they see, a giant cheese bathed in a heavenly light?</p>

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<p>Pretty cool! </p>

<p>Hope the rats that got entrenched in my crawl space will be seeing those visions of the glowing cheese soon… :)</p>

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<p>What do the evil rats see? A huge cat??</p>

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<p>I’m unsure why this research is interesting. If you cut off a person’s head, the mouth keeps moving and there was a vogue in the days of the guillotine to try to hear those last words - not seeming to understand that speech requires vocal chords, etc., not just a head. I suppose seeing there are spikes in brain centers after the heart stops is something more, but not yet and I don’t exactly see the point: were we to presume the brain dies immediately?</p>

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<p>Well, yes, I suppose that most people assume that the mind dies immediately. But beyond that, they are trying to understand the hyper-activity that is described by many who have experienced near death.</p>

<p>For some reason, the idea of this experiment makes me feel very sad.</p>

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<p>I’m surprised that the researchers find this pre-death brain hyperactivity in rats significant in any way. It really proves nothing.</p>