Viewers have been left shocked after watching a simulation of what happens to your brain when you die.
Death marks the moment when your physical body and vital organs stop working to keep you alive.
Many of us think that after someone is pronounced deceased, it means that they are no longer conscious. However, medical outlets such as Cleveland Clinic have claimed that brain activity actually continues for several minutes after death.
One YouTuber, who goes by the handle Zack D. Films, has shared a video of a simulation of what happens to your most precious organ when you pass away.
“Right before you die your brain has a surge of activity causing a type of electrical wave,” the content creator begins. “These waves activate parts of the brain associated with memory and consciousness and this can continue for up to two minutes after death.
“Now, since there isn’t a biological reason for this to happen, some researchers believe that the brain is pre-planned to do this giving you a chance to recall memories one last time,” he added.
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The clip has left many people stunned as they rushed to the comment section to share their reactions.
One user shared their interpretation, writing that it’s “sad” because it’s as if your brain is “trying to comfort you and itself before dying by using your best memories”.
Another described it as “beautiful,” explaining: “Your brain cares about you, so if you ever feel like nothing cares about you, always remember that you care about you and that someone matters.”
A third said the video is a reminder that we should strive to “cherish” those around us. “The ultimate goal in life should be building connections with them and good memories,” they added.
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“I like the idea of these last few minutes being a feeling of total euphoria like you’ve never felt before in life, To comfort you during something so frightening,” someone beautifully penned.
People are stunned after watching simulation of what happens to your brain when you die
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Viewers have been left shocked after watching a simulation of what happens to your brain when you die.
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Death marks the moment when your physical body and vital organs stop working to keep you alive.
Many of us think that after someone is pronounced deceased, it means that they are no longer conscious. However, medical outlets such as Cleveland Clinic have claimed that brain activity actually continues for several minutes after death.
Credit: Roxana Wegner / Getty
One YouTuber, who goes by the handle Zack D. Films, has shared a video of a simulation of what happens to your most precious organ when you pass away.
“Right before you die your brain has a surge of activity causing a type of electrical wave,” the content creator begins. “These waves activate parts of the brain associated with memory and consciousness and this can continue for up to two minutes after death.
“Now, since there isn’t a biological reason for this to happen, some researchers believe that the brain is pre-planned to do this giving you a chance to recall memories one last time,” he added.
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Watch the video below:
The clip has left many people stunned as they rushed to the comment section to share their reactions.
One user shared their interpretation, writing that it’s “sad” because it’s as if your brain is “trying to comfort you and itself before dying by using your best memories”.
Another described it as “beautiful,” explaining: “Your brain cares about you, so if you ever feel like nothing cares about you, always remember that you care about you and that someone matters.”
A third said the video is a reminder that we should strive to “cherish” those around us. “The ultimate goal in life should be building connections with them and good memories,” they added.
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“I like the idea of these last few minutes being a feeling of total euphoria like you’ve never felt before in life, To comfort you during something so frightening,” someone beautifully penned.
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Dr Rahul Jandial, a dual-trained neurosurgeon and neurobiologist, has examined this vital question.
Speaking on Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s Feel Better, Live More podcast, he said: “How the brain dies is powerful and it really has affected me because there’s a measurement that shows something very dramatic.
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“There are patients who are passing away… the stickers are on the heart, you have an EKG read,” he continued. “Typically we used to think of death as flatlining meaning that there’s no electrical signal coming from the heart.”
He said after official cardiac death, “the brain electricity’s not just going, there’s a massive explosion of activity, similar to dreaming brain waves, similar to expansive memory brain waves”.
“The first few minutes after our heart stops beating, where historically we’ve thought, this is the time of death, the brain is having its final moment, maybe its best moment,” he added.
The thought of death is something many people are afraid of, so if there was a way to potentially live again in the future, it’s understandable some people would want to take it.
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While being brought back from the dead years after your passing remains the domain of sci-fi movies, some people opted to be cryogenically frozen in real life in the hopes that they may be resurrected once technology catches up.
Cryonics, the freezing and preservation of human bodies in the hope of them being brought back to life in generations to come, first began in the late 1960s.
Procedures begin after the patient is clinically and legally pronounced dead, with cryoprotectants being used as early as minutes after the patient dies in order to try and protect against ice formation during cryopreservation to protect the organs and neural circuits.
A human being frozen and successfully brought back to life remains the realm of science fiction at present. (stock image) Credit: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images
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The body is then cooled and placed into liquid nitrogen for storage, and according to Big Think, the patients are stored upside down with their head facing the floor in order to keep the brain at the coldest and most stable point.
While nobody has yet been successfully revived after being frozen, many people have chosen to take the chance that it may one day become possible in the distant future as science and technology evolve.
In the early stages, one of the largest operations specializing in cryonics was led by Robert Nelson, who was working out of a cemetery in Chatsworth, California.
He initially attempted to freeze patients on a bed of dry ice, but found it was not effective and moved on to using liquid nitrogen in the capsules instead.
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Though he only had one capsule, he used it to store four patients, who were then lowered into an underground vault for storage.
However, one of the main issues with cryonics is the funding to store the bodies – and given that the patients are dead, eventually their payments are going to run out.
The bodies are attempted to be preserved in way that the cells won’t face damage from being frozen – currently a huge barrier to potentially reanimating them in future. Credit: Lebazele/Getty Images
So, when Nelson stopped receiving money from the relatives of the patients involved, their bodies were ultimately thawed out.
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And they’re not the only cryonics patients to have reached the same fate, as other facilities had faced issues with their equipment failing, leading to the bodies either not being preserved properly or thawing out and decomposing.
Of all the bodies that were frozen before 1973, only one remains preserved – that of Dr James Bedford, who was frozen in 1967 after dying at the age of 73.
Understandably, people were pretty horrified to discover the high rate of failure of the early cryonics patients, and shared their thoughts on Reddit.
One user wrote: “I didn’t notice my freezer had gone out until it started to get really smelly. I had to refreeze everything so I could get it into trash bags without throwing up. It had to have been multitudes worse when it was heads and bodies.”
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Others added: “Early Adopter Tax is brutal,” and: “This just rings cosmic joke. Paying insane money to sign your life away and get tossed in a tube, believing one day you would awake in the future, and start a new life, only to have your body dumped because a company went out of business? Like f**k me that’s just sad.”
Another commented: “Imagine blowing all your savings on this, just to be treated like chicken breast with freezer burn…”
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Unfortunately, many of the first attempts at cryonics failed, either due to equipment issues or funding running out. Credit: Darrin Klimek/Getty Images
Others took a more pragmatic approach, writing: “I mean, they went from dead to dead so it wasn’t like it mattered. And it was a waste of money on a ridiculous long-shot. But people play the lottery every day.
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“It’s just humans being human. I’d love to live forever myself. Don’t see any promising tech coming online in my lifetime, though.”
Although cryonics is considered a pseudoscience with little chance of ever being successfully used to reanimate a dead body, people are still signing up to be frozen after their death.
In May, a man from Sydney became the first person in Australia to have his body cryogenically frozen, having spent $112,000 for the procedure in the hope of one day being brought back to life.
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A team of hackers finally unlocked a $3 million Bitcoin wallet after a man forgot his password for 11 years.
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Back in 2012, an anonymous owner lost access to his crypto wallet so he enlisted the help of electrical engineer Joe Grand, who goes by the handle “Kingpin” online, to hack into an encrypted file.
A man had no access to his $3 million Bitcoin wallet for 11 years. Credit: Olemedia / Getty
The anonymous owner’s cryptocurrency was protected by a 20-character password created by a generator called Roboform and stored in a file encrypted with a tool called TrueCrypt.
Unfortunately, he forgot the password to his wallet, which led to him worrying that someone would hack his computer and ultimately gain access to a file holding 43.6 BTC – which was worth a total of about $5,300 at the time.
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“At [that] time, I was really paranoid with my security,” he said, according to Wired.
43.6 BTC was worth a total of about $5,300 at the time. Credit: Douglas Sacha / Getty
The owner asked the so-called Kingpin for assistance as he became renowned for helping another person recover access to over $2 million in cryptocurrency he thought he’d lost forever.
However, Grand turned his pleas down, stating that many people had contacted him to ask for help with recovering their lost treasure.
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But it all worked out in the end as the hacker eventually gave in to the request and teamed up with his colleague Bruno to crack the code.
The electrical engineer published a video on YouTube explaining how he solved the man’s password, revealing that he used a tool developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to disassemble the password generator’s code.
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Grand explained: “In a perfect world when you generate a password with a password generator, you expect to get a unique, random output each time that no one else has. [But] in this version of RoboForm, it was not the case.
“While RoboForm’s passwords appear to be randomly generated, they’re not. With the older versions of this software, if we can control the time, we can control the password,” he added.
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The tech wizards were able to trick the system by using a date range between March 1 and April 20, 2013, to see when the password was created, Forbes reported.
When this didn’t work, they changed the time frame once again after acquiring more information from the wallet owner.
Eventually, they discovered that the man had generated a password, with no special letters, on May 15, 2013, at 4:10:40PM GMT.
Grand revealed in an email to WIRED that he and his partner were “ultimately lucky that [their] parameters and time range was right”.
“If either of those were wrong, we would have… continued to take guesses/shots in the date,” he continued. “It would have taken significantly longer to precompute all the possible passwords.”
