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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
What does scare me is that, if there is no afterlife, what happens when you die? The brain continues electrical activity for a while, right? Is it possible that you could still be aware? What if you were trapped in a nightmare world generated by randomly firing neurons while your brain slowly fades away?
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In principle this is what our life is about for several decades, once we have ended our growth
The clinical death criterion depends on what they call "brain death", that is a person is declared dead when there is no more brain activity that coluld be measured. While there are rare diseases/syndroms when people will give an appearance of being dead, only to find that in Edgar Allan Poe style they wake up inside a coffin, this is extremely rare. You may want to change your last will regarding being buried with a cellphone, always.
