Your brain waves can still be active after your death, you know?

We tend to believe that when a person dies, everything in him stops working, right? Because a recent study revealed that, in fact, an individual's brain activity can remain active for up to 10 minutes after his death.

This bizarre statement was made by Canadian doctors about a case study of a person whose brain remained active even after she was declared clinically dead.

Death was confirmed based on routine medical observations, including lack of pulse and pupil response. Still, tests on the patient's brain activity showed that the thinking organ continued to function similarly as when we are sleeping.

Bizarre

The study of this case may suggest changes in the medical protocol that defines a person's death since, as reported by Canadian doctors, that person had active brainwaves even without heart rate and blood pressure.

In all, the brainwaves of four people declared dead were observed, and only one of them had their brain activities continued even after the death declaration. However, all recorded different brain behaviors after death.

Speculation

The purpose of brain activity that was recorded in the dead person is not yet known, but doctors say it is difficult to believe that it is indicative of medical error at the time of the death decree, even because all signs of the person and the devices who monitored her were checked.

Earlier studies had suggested that brain activity ceased within a minute of the death declaration, but this information was based on studies of mice, not humans, so more research is needed.

The fact is, what happens to the human mind after death is still a mystery to science. Anyway, it's curious to imagine that our brainwaves can remain active even after death, isn't it?