Death remains a very difficult topic for scientists to study. While there are some reports of near death experiences (NDEs) or people being revived after being declared dead, we’ve never been able to definitively confirm what happens beyond the grave. Further complicating things, death is often either sudden and unexpected, or a slow and drawn-out process. It’s hard to get accurate readings and measurements at the exact moment someone passes away.

However, in 2022, researcher Dr. Raul Vicente and his colleagues at the University of Tartu, Estonia, published findings confirming they were the first people ever to record the brainwaves of someone in the process of dying, and what they’ve come to realize should be very comforting to everyone.

“We measured 900 seconds of brain activity around the time of death and set a specific focus to investigate what happened in the 30 seconds before and after the heart stopped beating,” Dr. Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, US, who organized the study, told........

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