This story got me thinking about life after death

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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?

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.