A leading expert in near-death experiences argues that a stopped heart no longer signifies the end, thanks to modern medical advancements that allow patients to defy death. In an interview with The Telegraph, Sam Parnia, an associate professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, emphasized that the medical field remains largely outdated in its understanding of death and dying. Parnia cited recent studies, including those conducted at his own lab at NYU, which suggest that the human brain may remain “salvageable for not only hours, but possibly days” after death. One notable study from the Parnia Lab last year revealed that some cardiac arrest patients retained memories of their death experiences up to an hour after their hearts had stopped. Additionally, brain activity in these patients indicated a similar phenomenon. Remarkably, in 40 percent of these cases, brain activity returned to normal or near-normal levels an hour into cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). These findings, along with other studies such as a Yale experiment where decapitated pig brains were revived up to 14 hours after beheading, led Parnia to challenge the notion that death is an irreversible state. He described death as “simply a social convention that does not conform with scientific realities.” “If we remove that social label that makes us think everything stops, and look at it objectively, [death is] basically an injury process,” Parnia told The Telegraph. According to Parnia, this process can be reversed not only through the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines, which function as a substitute for the heart and lungs, but also through specific drug combinations that have shown promise in reviving animals. Parnia revealed that his team might be the only one worldwide administering these so-called “CPR cocktails” — a mixture of epinephrine, the diabetes drug metformin, vitamin C, the antidiuretic drug vasopressin, and the fatigue supplement Sulbutiamine — to cardiac arrest patients in an attempt to bring them back to life. Confident in his methods, the 52-year-old doctor has started telling people that, given his age and gender, he’s likely “going to have a cardiac arrest soon,” and that death shouldn’t be inevitable with interventions like ECMO and CPR cocktails available. “If I have a heart attack and die tomorrow, why should I stay dead?” Parnia asked the newspaper. “That’s not necessary anymore.” While Parnia’s vision of post-death revival hinges heavily on precise timing, he hopes that one day society will view death not as a final frontier, but as a condition that can be reversed in its immediate aftermath — and potentially even beyond. The post Prof. Sam Parnia: Death Appears to Be Reversible appeared first on Anomalien.com.