Near-Death Experience Exposed, University of Michigan Health System Study

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Near-death experiences reported by some cardiac arrest survivors may actually be grounded in science, University of Michigan researchers reported on Monday in the journal PNAS.

The study is the first to examine the neurophysiological state of the dying brain in animals, and in it they found near-death experiences in which people report “seeing light” could be explained by spikes in electrical activity in the brain after the heart stops beating.

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