Electrical activity in the dying brain, say scientists.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23672150

Have you ever had a near-death experience? My mother had one, and said she saw just ashes!

Does this also apply to what goes through your mind when you think you are about to die? I was once involved in a road accident (as a passenger); the car veered off the road, and bumped over the ditch beside it, apparently headed for a concrete post. I thought I was going to die.... and it's true that a great deal of my past life went through my mind in that split second. (In fact I wasn't even hurt)

I had something similar coming off a sleigh on a bobsleigh track and using my head as a brake. It is true that in those instants you remain lucid your thoughts seem to run on a different gear, covering more ground than a few seconds would normally permit. I am reminded of an earlier thread about quantum material in the brain perhaps being where our 'soul' may reside, perhaps near death experiences, such as seeing oneself from outside the body may be due to such material exiting for an instant only to return. All speculation and based on feelings of course, but I would like to think there may be an afterlife.