As a result, researchers had about 900 seconds of a continuous EEG in the moments around the manвЂ™s death. While the EEG was happening, the man suffered a cardiac arrest and died. The man had been admitted to the hospital in the wake of a fall, and he was hooked up to an EEG machine to detect seizures.

The background - An international team of researchers analyzed a continuous EEG - which measures electrical activity in the brain - of an 87-year-old man in the minutes before and after his death. But as far as a conclusive guide to our thoughts surrounding death? Not so much. A closer read of the study reveals some interesting insights about the moments preceding one manвЂ™s death and some clear lines between what was documented and what the scientists speculate might be happening. Headlines proclaimed, вЂњ Brain scans on a dying man suggest his life flashed before his eyes, researchers say Life flashing before your eyes: Scientists record brain activity in a manвЂ™s final moments ItвЂ™s true - life may well flash before your eyes when you die. Very often, though, itвЂ™s also a cause for skepticism. ItвЂ™s a rare and exciting day for a health reporter when thereвЂ™s so much buzz around a neuroscience study that itвЂ™s trending on Twitter. Of course, both my excitement and my skepticism were piqued. But can this actually tell us anything about what happens when we die? Researchers had caught a rare glimpse of recorded brain activity in the moments preceding and following death.

On Wednesday, a flurry of headlines and a trending Twitter topic arose about a study published in Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience.

Does your life flash before your eyes