In this file photo taken on April 12, 2021, nurses check a patient infected with Covid-19 at the Intensive Care Unit (UCI) of the Guillermo Grant Benavente Hospital in Concepcion, Chile. In a new paper published May 1, 2023, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), researchers at the University of Michigan found evidence of surges in brain activity associated with consciousness in two dying patients. PHOTO BY GUILLERMO SALGADO SANCHEZ VIA AFP
WASHINGTON: Survivors of close calls with death often recall extraordinary experiences: seeing light at the end of a tunnel, floating outside their own bodies, encountering deceased loved ones, or recapping major life events in an instant.
