Death is the great leveller, so let’s talk about it. According to researchers at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, who research deathbed experiences, people’s lives do flash before their eyes. What is a fascinating find is that it was assumed that there was little or no brain activity after around 10 minutes of a cardiac arrest, as the brain was deprived of oxygen. However, it was found that there were signs of near-normal brain activity for up to an hour, even with oxygen deprivation. According to one researcher: “Our brain is very robust” and “is more resilient to oxygen deprivation” than expected, and the brain “can restore itself and have markers of normal brain activity.” Yet, some brains do not restore, and die.
The materialist will see this as a surprising result in neuro-anatomy, but a case could be made, that those patients who do have this amazing survival experience are those whose time is not yet up, and God had decided that He wants them to live on.