“For organ donation, this may not have any big implications because you're not going to go on and remove the organs in the matter of the 30 seconds,” Zemmar said.īut it may mean a deeper understanding of the 30 seconds after the heart stops and the need to give a person space to replay those memories before pronouncing them dead. The brain may be active 30 seconds even after the heart stops, possibly to replay memories while crossing the bridge to death. "It gives me comfort, and if it gives that comfort to my patients as well, I think that's a nice thing to give them." When do we die - really?įilms often depict death as the moment the heart stops, the moment a rising and falling line on an EKG monitor falls flat. But that might not be accurate. There's hopefully some comfort in that, he said, for people who are losing a loved one. "I would be inclined to think, as well, that if the brain understands or enters the sphere of knowing 'this is it, I'm done, there is no survival,' I am activating the pre-programmed armamentarium of what I have available to replay - the most memorable events in a span of seconds before I leave." And it runs things in the body constantly without conscious effort - breathing, pumping blood, a steady heart rate. "The brain is a prediction machine," he said. The memories we may see in death are likely pre-programmed in our subconscious as a way of escorting us through the process, Zemmar said.
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