What Happens When We Die?


	What Happens When We Die?

Monkfishy

9-19-2008 2:31 PM

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brain, consciousness, death

Monkfishy says:

Fascinating study into what happens to consciousness after brain function, as we know it, ceases.

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9-21-2008 12:10 PM

tanyamm

What happens when we die is something that I don't think anyone will fully understand or know until it happens to each of us as individuals. People are to different to be put together using one test.

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