Doctors in Canada have recorded the first ever scientific proof of life after death, claiming that people’s brains continue functioning after they are pronounced clinically dead. Researchers from the University of Western Ontario had been monitoring the brain activity and heart beatings of four people who were in intensive care, after their life support machines were turned off. According to doctors in a Canadian intense care unit, one patient continued showing persistent brain activity for ten minutes after their heart had stopped. Dailymail.co.uk reports: Brain inactivity preceded the heart stopping in three of the four cases. However, in one of the cases, the patient’s brain continued to work after their heart stopped. ‘In one patient, single delta wave bursts persisted following the cessation of both the cardiac rhythm and arterial blood pressure (ABP),’ the researchers said. There was significant differences in electrical activity in the brain between the 30-minute period before and the 5-minute period after the heart stopped. ‘It is difficult to posit a physiological basis for this EEG [brain] activity given that it occurs after a prolonged loss of circulation’, according to the paper which was published in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information. Across the four patients recordings of [...]