A recent and outstanding documentary by the (Sam) Parnia Lab at NYU Langone Health has come to my attention, Parnia's first production.
The title is Rethinking Death: Exploring What Happens When We Die, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18UdG4STHA . It has already been mentioned, back in January of this year, but with no apparent interest. I think this is interesting enough to post again.
The first half of the 45 minute YouTube video is devoted to some of the very interesting rescusitation research carried out at this lab, concluding that contrary to conventional received medical wisdom and conventionally assumed clinical definitions of death, if the correct reperfusion (resumption of oxygenation) precautions are carried out, the brain can survive lack of any blood flow for as long as an hour. The dying process turns out to be a potentially prolonged "grey area" rather than the conventionally assumed 3-5 minutes without blood flow inevitably resulting in irreversible death.
The second half of the video is devoted to exploring NDEs, how they relate to the new research, and how NDEs can be deemed real explorations of a conscious existence persisting after death, that proceeds at least partially into a spiritual realm of some sort. Some impressive NDEs experienced by mainly medical doctors and other professionals are covered through interviews.
Parnia doesn't discuss his so-far mostly unsuccessful research studies trying to obtain hard scientific proof of NDE OBEs via pinning them down with controlled verification of their veridicality. That seems OK to me, since the other information in the video is so interesting and still comes to a convincing conclusion that NDEs are real, independent of hard lab-based scientific proof.
The title is Rethinking Death: Exploring What Happens When We Die, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18UdG4STHA . It has already been mentioned, back in January of this year, but with no apparent interest. I think this is interesting enough to post again.
The first half of the 45 minute YouTube video is devoted to some of the very interesting rescusitation research carried out at this lab, concluding that contrary to conventional received medical wisdom and conventionally assumed clinical definitions of death, if the correct reperfusion (resumption of oxygenation) precautions are carried out, the brain can survive lack of any blood flow for as long as an hour. The dying process turns out to be a potentially prolonged "grey area" rather than the conventionally assumed 3-5 minutes without blood flow inevitably resulting in irreversible death.
The second half of the video is devoted to exploring NDEs, how they relate to the new research, and how NDEs can be deemed real explorations of a conscious existence persisting after death, that proceeds at least partially into a spiritual realm of some sort. Some impressive NDEs experienced by mainly medical doctors and other professionals are covered through interviews.
Parnia doesn't discuss his so-far mostly unsuccessful research studies trying to obtain hard scientific proof of NDE OBEs via pinning them down with controlled verification of their veridicality. That seems OK to me, since the other information in the video is so interesting and still comes to a convincing conclusion that NDEs are real, independent of hard lab-based scientific proof.
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