Defining Death..... the medical way.

In an article from LiveScience today, AWARE is a new study that is meant to discover what happens to the brain when it 

is on the verge of dying. This an effort to explain the idea of near-death experiences.

My mother claimed to have had one in her many hospital stays in my youth. There was the white light, the soul floating above her mortal body on the hospital bed etc.

According to the study 10 to 20 percent of people who live through cardiac arrest tell of lucid thoughts and memories during that time.

I don't believe in the soul or afterlife... death is the end literally. A body becomes an empty shell which should decompose back to the earth gracefully. But the last thoughts of a lifetime of thoughts that then disappear forever has an almost mystical quality to the them. 

More Car Crashes.....Men worse drivers than women.

While researching more on car crash statistics, I found this article. This was published after Morgan Freeman was injured in a car crash last month.

Evidently the leading cause of accidental death in men under 75 is car crashes. Twice as many men die in crashes as women and 81% of all drunk drivers are men.  

It's the end of the World.... but I am fine

the CERN  particule accelerator was finally tested successfully yesterday.... but not at full capacity which might be in another year. Evidently there are some concerns that this science is so powerful that it could destroy the world, perhaps by creating tiny black holes right here on earth. The quest for knowledge is fraught with dangers. Curiosity killed the cat, what the hell is it going to do the human race? I think it is quite exciting, and an interested to see what happens.

Here is the yahoo article: Largest Particle Collider Conducts successful test

From Live Science about the potential to Destroy Earth