Throughout the world, death and the rituals that surround it are steeped in taboos. Death is celebrated, embraced and feared. Around death and the dead, cultures put in place diverse restrictions and practices associated with clothing, food and ritual.
A simpler definition? Death begins when the heart stops beating. Deprived of oxygen, a cascade of cellular death commences, beginning with brain cells and ending with skin cells. Death is a process rather than an event!
Cause of DEATH? It's pretty simple! A simple road accident which happens, perhaps for a couple of seconds can actually terminate ones life! Amazing huh? DEATH can be due to some simple and unpainful process by suicide. By drinking just a small cup of deadly poison like cyanide will immeditately terminate the life of a homosapien like us. Seems like a fictional fact, but it's incredibly true!
For example, brain death, as practiced in medical science, defines death as a point in time during which brain activity ceases.In other words, it's defined as a person being clinically dead; people are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases.
When I was seven, I watched a documentary airing on the television about a guy who escaped death and eventually he went through an amazing phenomena called the NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE) as what is described by the scientist and physicians.
Mellen-Thomas Benedict
is an artist who survived a near-death experience in 1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half after dying of cancer. At the time of his death, he rose up out of his body and went into the light. Curious about the universe, he was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into the energetic void of nothingness behind the Big Bang. During his experience, he was able to learn a great deal of information concerning reincarnation. Because of his near-death experience, he was able to bring back scientific discoveries.
Mr. Benedict has been closely involved in the mechanics of cellular communication and research dealing with the relationship of light to life called Quantum Biology. This research is providing dramatic new perspectives on how biological systems work. Mr. Benedict has found that living cells can respond very quickly to light stimulation resulting in, among other things, high speed healing. He is a researcher, inventor and lecturer who holds six U.S. patents.
Several weeks after Benedict was born, he may experienced a NDE when his bowels were ruptured. His body was tossed to one side as a corpse, yet much to everyone's surprise he later revived. As soon as he was big enough to grab hold of crayons, he started what became a compulsive urge to create symbolic renditions of the black/white yin/yang circles of Eastern religious thought. He has no memory of why he drew those particular symbols.
From the above explaination, what can you say then about the NDE? Is it related to the brain activity of reviving oneself or perhaps some magical imaginary phenomenon which might occur on some "lucky people"
According to an article on the National Geographic magazine, it was said that "Near-death experiences are tricks of the mind triggered by an overload of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream". In the new study, researchers investigated whether different levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide—the main blood gases—play a role in the mysterious phenomenon.
The team studied 52 heart attack patients who had been admitted to three major hospitals and were eventually resuscitated. Eleven of the patients reported near-death experiences.During cardiac arrest and resuscitation, blood gases such as CO2 rise or fall because of the lack of circulation and breathing.
However, people who have inhaled excess carbon dioxide or have been at high altitudes, which can raise the blood's CO2 concentrations, have been known to have sensations similar to near-death experiences
According to Christopher French, a psychologist at the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit of the University of London, "the effects of hypercarbia [abnormally high levels of CO2 in the blood] were very similar to what we would now recognise as NDEs" . Furthermore, The main alternative is that near-death experiences are "evidence of consciousness becoming separated from the physical substrate of the brain, possibly even a glimpse of an afterlife!!!
Prevention And Life Extension
Life extension refers to an increase in maximum or average lifespan, especially in humans, by slowing down or reversing the processes of aging. Average lifespan is determined by vulnerability to accidents and age or lifestyle-related afflictions such as cancer, or cardiovascular disease. Extension of average lifespan can be achieved by good diet, exercise and avoidance of hazards such as smoking. Maximum lifespan is determined by the rate of aging for a species inherent in its genes. Currently, the only widely recognized method of extending maximum lifespan is calorie restriction. Theoretically, extension of maximum lifespan can be achieved by reducing the rate of aging damage, by periodic replacement of damaged tissues, or by molecular repair or rejuvenation of deteriorated cells and tissues
