Apparently, doctors at 25 UK and US hospitals will study 1500 survivors to see if people with no heartbeat or brain activity can have “out of body” experiences.

Now, does that sound like a worthwhile project on which to spend taxpayers’ money? What’s it going to prove? That the brain/consciousness continues to flicker like the dying embers of a fire after a person is pronounced clinically dead?

Maybe that’s the point and that the work is aimed at better emergency room care to take into account that even after the heart has stopped beating and there is no recordable brain activity, there might still be a glimmer of hope for revival.

I suspect there is an ulterior motive, driven by humanity’s long quest for the truth about what happens to us after we die.

But, it is the way the research is to be conducted that is most curious and actually beggars belief to be honest.

The study, which will last three years and is being co-ordinated by the UK’s Southampton University, will include placing photographs on  shelves in the emergency room that could only be seen from above. Now, therein lies the puzzle, if a patient has a so-called outer-body experience what will they “see” those images with? There certainly won’t be reflected light entering their body’s eyes, will there.

But, even more curious, if there were some way that the images could be seen during this episode how will the memory of those images be relayed to the memory centers of their apparently dead brain lying on the slab below them in ER?

And, they complained that the Large Hadron Collider was a waste of money? Pah!

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