I've been following the story of the teenage boy in Alabama who was pronounced brain dead. His parents had just signed the paperwork for organ donation when all of a sudden he began to respond. He has now said that while he was unconscious (my confusion is that he was supposedly brain dead) he walked along a field and he believes he was in heaven. Then later his mom says the color of his eyes has changed and that is a sure sign he was reborn. I am shaking my head in confusion and wonderment. Was he really not brain dead and the doctors called it incorrectly? Can a brain dead person return to a state of near normalcy after 15 minutes of being in that state? I know he wasn't in "heaven" but if he was dreaming would that not indicate he could not have been brain dead? What do you think of this news story?
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This is one, but there is a whole page full of the story. You know this kind of “miracle” gets the theists all close to orgasm!
Barnie2years
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May 7, 2018
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Machines are fallible and the human body can do odd things. One of the reasons most states require a three day waiting period before a body is cremated. In this case, he suffered a major head trauma. His brain may have gone into a hibernation mode, just as some trauma requires induced coma. If he was seeing fields, he was having dreams, relaxing dreams. And thank goodness they waited a bit to start harvesting organs. I’m not sure they don’t rush that sometimes.
Barnie2years
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May 7, 2018
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Dont now what to say... hallucinations can be more vivid than a dream.
GipsyOfNewSpain
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May 7, 2018
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There is a very long history of this kind of thing. I have no pretense to being an expert, but there are such out there. An article from Sam Harris (who may be one):
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bjporcella
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