Introduction

Doctors recently captured the first images of a dying brain when a patient suffered a heard attack during an e e g. What they saw is raising questions about what it means to die, and could give us insights into what our final living moments will feel like. We can't exactly predict death, can we? Let me set the stage. An 87 year old male went to a vancouver hospital after getting a brain bleed from a fall. Doctors operated to deal with the bleed, but two days later, the patient started having seizures. To get a better sense of what was going on in the brain, doctors administered an ee g. Unfortunately, the man had a heart attack during the procedure,

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