Alyssa's thinking about how maybe Starfleet should review their on duty drug use policies.
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"bev is so weird when she's sober"
If anyone's wondering, sensation in the throat, and hearing are the two last things to go.
IMO this is why, even after someone has "passed", it's important to speak to them.
last study I saw found hearing was functional two hours after cardiac arrest.
share your favorite memories or sing songs to your loved ones.
in this sanitized society we live in today, death is far too impersonal even though it's a part of life that we all must experience.
hearing was functional two hours after cardiac arrest.
Regardless of the accuracy of this finding, it sounds so horrifying on the surface but I could see it being a pleasant experience just based on stories of near death experiences and whatnot. I can't imagine you have any consciousness or self-awareness for almost all of that time though.
who knows.
IMO I believe when you die your brain is flooded with the last of everything your body has to give. an evolutionary trait to survive as long as possible.
and this last "flash" is what we consider the "afterlife". probably lasts all of 10 seconds IRL but we know dreams like that can last lifetimes.
all I can do is hope I'm right. being an atheist, the alternative is pretty bleak.
In my view, feom your perepective, the koment you lose consciousness, you get recycled into some other shitbeing instantly, and the ride never ends.
This is why it's important to be humane to all life, and make a good future.
all I can do is hope I'm right. being an atheist, the alternative is pretty bleak.
It doesn't have to be. Sure, you spend some of sleep dreaming, but most of it is just being unconscious. A nice, restful, relaxing, eternal sleep, little different from how you spend most of your nights.
yea the worst has to be the initial stages of dying really, depending on how you die ofc.
"I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
'Studies'? You talking about the ear functioning, but the brain is shut down?
just because we identify brain death happening minutes after observed death doesn't mean the brain completely ceases to function. it could be operating at such a low rate that it's unobservable with current medical technology.
there are plenty of documented cases of people who were functionally brain dead that were revived well past the point of return and had vivid descriptions of what was happening around them.
hell one woman was frozen, FROZEN, heart stopped, brain stopped, no blood flow, no oxygen. they were thawing her for an autopsy and her vitals came back.
all I'm saying is when your loved one has died, we know hearing is one of the last things to go. so take the opportunity to make them feel loved and give yourself a sense of closure. what does it hurt?
Nah, I imagine that if you are totally out of it and gone within moments of sleep, death would be worse. Your ears do your own thing.
Yeah that's fine, but it seems more like something you do for yourself, not the dead person. I still don't know why you think hearing lasts after death, but I'm pretty sure that a brain dead person can't hear. And if you freeze a body so it's in stasis, it can't hear anything. Even if it's thawed out and revived later, it won't have processed any audible input when it was non functioning. But we simply can't know the conscious experience of a dying person, so you are of course free to believe whatever you'd like.
agree to disagree.
How on earth do we know this?
Doctors and nurses that regularly monitor the dying. They end up learning a lot of the biological signs someone's on their way out.
People that almost died and could be resuscitated I'd guess.
Missing the Blazin’ Bev header.
In before... oh no