Scientists at the New York City school told the Independent newspaper that they’re studying patients who've suffered cardiac arrest but have been revived. The paper defined death as the stage where the heart no longer beats and “blood flow to the brain” cuts off. “You lose all your brain stem reflexes,” Dr. Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation at the school, told the paper. “Your gag reflex, your pupil reflex, all that is gone.”The evidence reportedly suggests a surge of brain activity immediately after a near-death experience. They find a new meaning to life having had an encounter with death," Parnia said.

Source: Fox News October 20, 2017 04:30 UTC