After Death

740 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,602 maybe 500 feet, three pitches up 741 00:35:02,727 --> 00:35:04,479 David Ditchfield: As the train started pulling out, 742 00:35:04,604 --> 00:35:06,481 I just thought, This is it. I'm going to die. 743 00:35:06,606 --> 00:35:08,650 Jeremain: I took a corner to a 90 miles 744 00:35:08,775 --> 00:35:11,236 an hour, flipped over, and it landed on the top. 745 00:35:11,361 --> 00:35:13,655 All I remember seeing was a big white, white light. 746 00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:15,907 Kristen: The knife had gone all the way through my liver. 747 00:35:16,032 --> 00:35:19,077 I had a punctured lung and I started feeling myself 748 00:35:19,744 --> 00:35:20,745 leave my body. 749 00:35:20,871 --> 00:35:22,747 Oprah: You were in the hospital bed, right? 750 00:35:22,873 --> 00:35:24,457 But you had left your body and you 751 00:35:24,583 --> 00:35:26,501 Betty Eadie: My body was on the bed and my spirit ... 752 00:35:26,626 --> 00:35:28,169 Peter: and I could see in every direction. 753 00:35:28,295 --> 00:35:30,005 {\an8}Barbara: Up on the ceiling looking down. 754 00:35:30,130 --> 00:35:32,883 {\an8}There was this feeling of a presence. It felt like God 755 00:35:33,008 --> 00:35:34,801 David: Not like this guy up in the sky. 756 00:35:34,968 --> 00:35:36,011 Anne: And that was God. 757 00:35:36,136 --> 00:35:37,137 I just know it was God 758 00:35:37,262 --> 00:35:39,097 Hila: The meaning of life, of everything, 759 00:35:39,222 --> 00:35:41,182 Johnnie: It was unlike anything I've ever experienced. 760 00:35:41,308 --> 00:35:42,893 David: I have no fear of death. 761 00:35:43,018 --> 00:35:45,604 Tom:...it's with total knowledge and unconditional love... 762 00:35:45,729 --> 00:35:48,607 Hila: It was all the love that is in the universe. 763 00:35:48,773 --> 00:35:50,901 Kirat: Death is not the end. It's probably the beginning. 764 00:35:51,026 --> 00:35:52,319 Dean: I looked into his eyes, It was like 765 00:35:52,444 --> 00:35:54,404 I was looking at forever inside of him, 766 00:35:54,529 --> 00:35:55,822 and I could see the love he had for me. 767 00:35:55,947 --> 00:35:57,657 Hillary: You know, people don't believe you 768 00:35:57,782 --> 00:36:00,285 when you say the story, but it's just so real. 769 00:36:00,452 --> 00:36:02,287 [music] 770 00:36:03,955 --> 00:36:07,125 Dr. Neal: Almost 30 minutes had gone by. 771 00:36:07,292 --> 00:36:11,296 Enough time had passed that they had shifted from 772 00:36:11,796 --> 00:36:15,216 a rescue mode to purely a body recovery mode. 773 00:36:16,176 --> 00:36:20,221 I could see this bloated purple body 774 00:36:20,347 --> 00:36:24,434 and I never felt alive and then dead. 775 00:36:24,559 --> 00:36:27,646 I never felt conscious and unconscious. 776 00:36:28,063 --> 00:36:30,774 I felt conscious and then more conscious 777 00:36:30,899 --> 00:36:35,153 I felt alive and then more alive. 778 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,909 Dr. Sabom: I came into this thing skeptical, mean 779 00:36:41,034 --> 00:36:43,995 {\an8}I could have very easily blown this whole thing off. 780 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,580 {\an8}If you go to the resuscitation 781 00:36:45,705 --> 00:36:46,790 {\an8}for 20 minutes 782 00:36:46,915 --> 00:36:47,582 {\an8}and you've been 783 00:36:47,707 --> 00:36:50,627 {\an8}without oxygen for 20 minutes or whatever, 784 00:36:51,544 --> 00:36:53,838 you're going to lose some neurons, 785 00:36:53,964 --> 00:36:55,173 You're going to have brain damage. 786 00:36:55,298 --> 00:36:56,967 You may not live either. 787 00:36:57,092 --> 00:36:59,761 You'll die a neurologic death 788 00:36:59,886 --> 00:37:02,847 general rule is, the longer without the oxygen. 789 00:37:03,181 --> 00:37:06,851 Normally, the more brain damage you're going to have, 790 00:37:07,227 --> 00:37:10,897 and it's progressive until it's restored. 791 00:37:12,190 --> 00:37:14,317 CBS News: A new study may provide answers 792 00:37:14,442 --> 00:37:15,527 {\an8}to the age old question 793 00:37:15,652 --> 00:37:18,613 {\an8}What happens to our brains when we die? 794 00:37:19,322 --> 00:37:20,490 [music] 795 00:37:20,615 --> 00:37:24,661 {\an8}Dr. Zemmar: The brain has always been the most fascinating 796 00:37:24,869 --> 00:37:26,079 {\an8}and the most interesting 797 00:37:26,204 --> 00:37:27,956 {\an8}organ to me because to the world 798 00:37:28,081 --> 00:37:30,208 {\an8}it is completely unexplored. 799 00:37:30,333 --> 00:37:32,252 I was working in Vancouver at the Vancouver 800 00:37:32,377 --> 00:37:33,378 General Hospital. 801 00:37:33,503 --> 00:37:35,797 This was the 87 year old gentleman. 802 00:37:35,922 --> 00:37:38,842 He came during the emergency shift 803 00:37:39,426 --> 00:37:43,304 with a bleed between the brain and the skull. 804 00:37:43,430 --> 00:37:46,391 We call it a subdural hematoma. 805 00:37:46,725 --> 00:37:49,019 And we decided to operate. 806 00:37:49,144 --> 00:37:50,687 We removed the