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AFTERLIFE

Dutch researchers have published evidence from a new study that suggests patients whose hearts stop beating experience an afterlife. The research appears in the medical journal, the Lancet. The two-year study in 10 Dutch hospitals found that 12 per cent of cardiac arrest survivors reported having various near-death experiences. The study is the most extensive scientific study of the phenomenon to date.

It used the latest medical equipment to confirm no signs of pulse or brain activity in the patients who reported near-death experiences. Researchers say the patients were clinically dead and therefore should not have been able to perceive anything. Researchers say the recollections are too structured to be hallucinations. They believe the phenomenon defies normal medical explanation.

Dr. Peter Fenwick, a joint author of a previous study that agrees with the latest research says, "If the mind and brain can be independent, then that raises questions about the continuation of consciousness after death. It also raises questions about a spiritual component to humans and about a meaningful universe with a purpose rather than a random universe."

Academics might use this new research to show the mind continues to work after the brain dies. Believers in Jesus see this study as evidence of what they already knew. There is more to this life than this life. There is a spiritual dimension. And there is more to come when this life is over.

—http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news, Saturday, December 15, 2001. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell

Matthew 16:24-26 NIV "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"