Can we live forever and are we not dead when we are dead?
How does it feel to die?
What is the exact point of death and what comes next?
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For many, American chauffeur Joe Tiralosi is considered a medical miracle!
In 2009 he collapsed, his heart stopped and his brain stopped working.
Tiralosi was dead.
But in one of North America's best hospitals, medical teams gave it their all: they shocked
his heart with 360 joules, gave him a chest compressing massage over and over again ... Ten
minutes later, Tiralosi still showed no signs of life.
But the doctors went on - here was a limit at which some other teams would have safely
stopped the treatment.
Tiralosi was injected with adrenaline, but even after 30 minutes, he showed no reaction.
Should all have been in vain?
The chauffeur had already been dead for 40 minutes.
Most medical teams would probably have stopped now at the latest, because of the risk that
large parts of the brain have died.
The question is, is it really possible to get enough oxygen into the brain with artificial
respiration?
Even if the heart would start beating again.
After 47 minutes and 20 seconds there is a loud beep, the zero line on the monitor turns
into a strong upward deflection!
And yes, the case actually has a happy ending - and what's more: Tiralosi was able to leave
the hospital after three weeks - on foot.
And, strictly speaking, it is not a medical miracle, but a spectacular success of modern
resuscitation medicine.
Up to 30 percent of normal oxygen can be delivered to the brain through a well-performed resuscitation.
The problem: It's really exhausting; Even professionals can not hold this level for
more than a few minutes.
But from my circle of acquaintances, I know a case where an elderly woman was repeatedly
kept alive only by chest compressions and by artificial respiration for 30 minutes,
the body could be oxygenated enough, that the person could then be resuscitated.
And this respiration and chest compressions was done by a petite woman.
Heart-lung machines, chest straps and hydraulic pumps can do that much better!
Also enormously important: cold, which cools down the deceased's body.
In any case, Tralosis's life was saved by the endurance of the emergency physicians
and the cold.
What the case of Tiralosi clearly shows, has not been known for too long: Death is a process
and NOT a moment.
It enters slowly and spreads in the body.
Even hours later, it can still be interrupted.
Only 60 years ago, people thought completely different: Thump - Thump - Thump - and end!
As long as the heart beats, we live.
When it stops, we are dead - and that is irreversible.
At that time, the Austrian-American physician Peter Safar wrote the book "ABC of Resuscitation",
in which he described for the first time how to revive a person after a cardiac arrest:
by breathing, keeping the respiratory tract free and compressing the chest.
But what exactly makes us die after 80, 90, 100, in the meantime, sometimes even at the
age of 120, in a natural way?
There are trillions of cells in our body and they age - until we die from it.
Our "internal clock" is ticking because at some point an important biological process
in our body will stop: the everyday cell division, which ensures that old cells are replaced
and replaced.
The old cells die or live only in a kind of "stand-by mode".
The physical decline in old age is also based on other mechanisms.
In the end, several organs and biological processes fail.
The lungs, the brain, or the cardiovascular system are sometimes referred to as "ports
of entry of death."
From a medical point of view, there is no THE death.
First, there is the so-called "clinical death" when the cardiovascular system stops and organs
are no longer supplied.
Sometimes this can still be counteracted with respirators or chest compressions.
The "irreversible brain death" looks quite different.
According to the definition in Germany, this means the loss of the cerebrum and cerebellum
and the brain stem - the consciousness is thus lost and that is irreversible.
Incidentally, even in this condition, even in very deep layers of some brain regions,
brain cells can be active.
Machines can keep some functions of a brain-dead body going: it can regulate its own body temperature,
and some brain-dead women even have their baby delivered to birth.
In surgery, some brain-dead patients respond to stimuli: blood pressure increases and muscles
move.
From a medical point of view, reflexes of the spinal cord are responsible and not the
sensation of pain.
To diagnose brain death, there are clear guidelines that two doctors have to go through independently!
You've probably heard of near-death experiences.
The near-death experiences network estimates that about four million people in Germany
have had such a mysterious experience - for example, after an accident.
The reports say something like, "It just feels like a perfect sleep - but without dreams."
Others report that they felt it was more like a life after death, such as a "light vision
at the end of the tunnel" or a kind of "life film".
Sometimes they are nice feelings, but fear and panic also often play a role.
From a medical point of view, such near-death experiences occur between clinical death and
resuscitation.
According to studies, about 1/4 of patients who have undergone clinical death report near-death
experiences.
Often especially if the resuscitation took a long time or was particularly difficult.
Neurologically, near-death is, as it were, an expression of a dysfunction in the brain;
if the supply was not good for a long time.
The field of legal medicine knows in detail about the different phases of death.
It is clear that the organs often have to cope for a time without oxygen and nutrients.
The cells in the brain die after about five minutes; the heart lasts up to 30 minutes
and then all the cells in the liver and lungs die too.
The blood goes down because it stops circulating - death spots develop.
And you know that from thrillers: they reveal a great deal, for example about the cause
of death and the time.
Similar to the rigor mortis, which sets in after about two hours.
Specifically, the muscles stiffen and die.
After a few days, the rigidity dissolves again.
One to two days after the onset of death, the gastrointestinal tract then gives up;
Bacteria begin with the decomposition of the body!
Sperm persist for longer - up to three days!
The entire decomposition process of the human body lasts 30 years - after that, nothing
of us will be left really.
How exactly do the moments of dying feel - that in turn is still largely unexplored.
How should that work? after all, none of the dead I know have risen again.
But there are animal experiments.
Thus, brain activity does not gradually decay during the dying process, but increases significantly
for a short time For example, a research team from the University of Michigan reported in
2013.
So far, however, it was assumed that this process does not exist in humans.
But there are the latest findings and maybe humans themselves are responsible for the
near-death experiences described.
In any case, through this error, the phenomenon in humans is still completely unexplored.
What will dying look like in the future?
After all, research teams around the world are tinkering with eternal life, and yes,
the visions of science are gigantic.
The Methuselah Foundation in Virginia wants to make it possible in the future for humans
to remain at the biological age of 25 forever.
90-year-olds should stay as healthy as those 40 years younger.
Biotechnology is making more and more progress towards eternal life, supported by a lot of
money from the pharmaceutical industry.
Time magazine asked in 2013 "Can Google solve Death?".
Can Google stop death?
Previously, the digital company Google had founded its daughter "Calico" with 1.5 billion
dollars to find an answer to exactly this question.
Half of the funding was driven by a pharmaceutical company.
Also, the Silicon Valley billionaire Larry Ellison is a death opponent and hopes that
lots of money will lead to numerous scientific discoveries, which then in combination with
better healing methods can extend our lives.
But until that becomes reality, everyone can take care of improving the quality of their
own lives.
In the best case, this also increases the service life.
Research teams around the world point out that meditation can reduce stress, for example.
And too much stress accelerates the biological aging, as many studies say.
And if that's not enough, research teams around the world are also optimistic: In 20 years'
time, it is estimated that we will be able to resuscitate people who are already dead
for up to 24 hours.
A case like Tiralosi would no longer be the exception, but the rule!
But what happens after death - is there a life after that?
Are we born again?
What happens to the human soul - is it immortal?
You all know what the different religions mean.
Sometimes the near-death experiences are used as proof: the body has detached itself from
the soul and stood on the threshold of the afterlife.
There is absolutely no consensus about this scientifically.
There are scientists who believe in such scenarios.
However, most experts in this area explain near-death experiences neurologically.
And so these experiences provide no evidence of a life after death.
Often, quantum physics is brought into play in this discussion.
Can it create the connection between the physical body and the immaterial soul or does it even
smash it?
Ultimately, however, quantum physics is just another theory about the behavior of physical
particles.
In my opinion, it is doubtful, that we can make serious statements about an immaterial
soul.
Sounds like a lot of nonsense.
And so it remains a question of faith, whether there is an immortal soul or not.
At any rate, science can not answer it.
However technology advances more and more, so a question we might soon ask is, do we
still need a human body for our consciousness?
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