Death is both fascinating and scary.

It is the last mystery of life and largely remains unknowable until your time comes.

Despite massive advancements in science and technology, the historic period-old question of what happens subsequently you die is all the same without answers.

You might actually KNOW that you are dead for quite a long time after you dice, co-ordinate to a chilling new study.

Researchers accept discovered you may be able to hear your own death being announced.

The findings come amid the emergence of the belief you know what'due south happening around your cadaver.

Medical experts have long debated what happens when a person dies, with anecdotal evidence of bright lights or sensations, and films such as Flatliners exploring the unknown.

People who have been medically expressionless and so resuscitated are the only insight into what happens.

These people have taken to Reddit to answer the impossible "what'south it like to die?" question equally best they can. And the answers vary a lot, reports the Mirror.

1. Like reading a book

5 years ago monitormonkey underwent major surgery during which he bled out, causing him die for several minutes, The Mirror reported.

"I woke upwardly in what looked similar space but there weren't any stars or light. I wasn't floating then to speak, I was just there.

"I wasn't hot or cold, hungry or tired - simply a peaceful neutral kind of thing. I knew there was light and love somewhere nearby but I had no urge or need to get to information technology right away.

"I remember thinking over my life, but it wasn't similar a montage. More like I was idly flipping through a book and snippets stood out hither and there.

"Whatever it was, it changed my thoughts on a few things. I am still afraid to die, but I'm not worried nigh what happens after that."

two. A visit from someone dear

Schneidah7 was thrown from his motorbike while cruising at 50mph and was medically dead when he was taken to hospital. As he lay in the road before the ambulance came, he recalled someone he knew encouraging him.

"I but remember being on the pavement and things slowly going black and placidity.

"The simply reason I didn't autumn asleep was because of a baroque moment where I heard someone yelling, 'Ranger up you candy f***! Come on human being, become up. Get upwards. Become Upwards!'

"Then someone was slapping my helmet (which was basically smushed really hard onto my caput).

"When I opened my optics I saw my brother squatting on the pavement adjacent me to. This was odd considering my brother died from an overdose several years ago.

"The only other matter I retrieve is him glancing at his watch and saying something like 'They'll be here soon' so walking away.

"I wish I could give more detail but I honestly don't remember much of the incident and still take trouble with my memory as a result of the blow."

three. A garden

While many users described their 'death' as being similar a void, IDiedForABit had a very different experience afterward an allergic reaction caused his or her heart to stop.

"I remember a feeling of being sucked backwards, extremely slowly, like being pulled through water and this blackness fading in and out.

"At i point information technology faded dorsum in and I was staring out at a garden.

"Information technology wasn't filled with flowers, just dust and patchy grass. There was a playground with a merry-go-round in the centre and two children running around it. A male child and a daughter.

"It's difficult to describe only I got the feeling I could cull if I wanted to stay or leave, just every time I tried to go back I was held in identify.

"I went through all the reasons I wanted to get back, and when I told the presence I didn't want to abandon my mother whatsoever held me finally let go.

"I snapped back into my trunk. My heart had stopped for six minutes."

four. Hitting snooze

As a teenager, TheDeadManWalks had been going through months of chemotherapy when his nose started bleeding uncontrollably.

Due to a sepsis and Clostridium difficile infection, his condition worsened, and he slipped in and out of expiry, which he describes beautifully.

"The worst part of it all, looking dorsum, is how peaceful it can seem.

"Information technology's similar wanting to hit the snooze button on your alarm at 7am.

"And maybe you do hit it one time or twice only then yous call back that yous have work or school and that sleep tin wait considering you've withal got s*** to exercise."

5. Or is it a laugh?

altburger69'due south brush with death didn't finish them from bang-up jokes.

"Had a heart attack last year and my eye stopped iii times in the emergency room.

"Apparently, each fourth dimension they shocked me back I 'woke upward' (how it felt) and told the staff a different knock-knock joke each time.

"No lights or whatever, only felt like sleep."

vi. At that place is aught later

In the aftermath of a motorbike blow, Rullknuf's breathing and pulse stopped and he went "balk and stiff". After 2 minutes, his friend managed to resuscitate him.

"For me information technology was only a blackout. No dreams, no visions, simply nothing.

"Apparently I asked over 10 times what happened and said I shall exist happy to be live today."

A new study, the Mirror reports, suggests a person's consciousness keeps working after their middle stops beating and their body movements fail.

Cardiac arrest survivors were aware of what was going on effectually them while they were 'dead' - including seeing doctors trying to save them or hearing conversations - before being 'brought back to life', the study revealed.

Information technology means that a person may even hear their time of decease being announced past medics as they are essentially 'trapped' inside their body with brain function.

Dr Sam Parnia is studying consciousness after death and examining cardiac abort cases in Europe and the US.

He said anecdotal evidence has constitute that people in the first stage of expiry may nevertheless experience some form of consciousness.

The proficient told LiveScience that people who accept survived cardiac abort later accurately described what was happening effectually them after their hearts stopped chirapsia.

He said: "They'll describe watching doctors and nurses working, they'll describe having awareness of full conversations, of visual things that were going on, that would otherwise non be known to them."

Dr Parnia, of the NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York, said the accounts were verified by doctors and nurses, who were left stunned after learning that the patients remembered the details afterward beingness resuscitated.

His study is examining what happens to the brain later a person goes into cardiac arrest - and whether consciousness continues afterward death and for how long - to amend the quality of resuscitation and prevent brain injuries while restarting the center.

Unlike the plot in Flatliners, however, when a person is resuscitated they don't render with a "magical enhancement" of their memories, said Dr Parnia.

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