First ever recording of dying brain suggests we may recall key life events

The specific type of brain waves which were recorded in the dying brain suggest the person was seeing their lives flash before their eyes through “memory retrieval”

It was the first time ever that scientists had recorded the activity of a dying human brain. File picture: Alamy

Scientists may be closer to answering an age-old question about what happens to the human brain as we die.

Neuroscientists accidentally recorded a dying brain while they were using electroencephalography (EEG) to detect and treat seizures in an 87-year-old man and the patient suffered a heart attack.