Dying to Know...What Happens to the Body Right Before You Die
Losing ourselves
Shaw explains that you lose a lot of your humanity when you die, "[the brain] tends to die from the top down, claiming most of our most human characteristics first ... Our sense of self, our sense of humour, our ability to think ahead - that stuff all goes within the first 10 to 20 seconds. Then, as the wave of blood-starved brain cells spread out, our memories and language centres short out, until we're left with just core."
