Ready to Die?. . . Vicariously?

According to Time Magazine's "What Happens When We Die" article, science brings a better definition an yet better undrstanding of death to the mindsets of those who are daring to understand. Although Dr. Sam Parnia conducted his study in 2007, this 2008 article has yet to be disproved. Parnia explains that death is often times percieved as a moment but in actuality it is a method."People commonly perceive death as being a moment — you're either dead or you're alive. And that's a social definition we have. But the clinical definition we use is when the heart stops beating, the lungs stop working, and as a consequence the brain itself stops working." When heart beating stops about 10-15 seconds after that the brain stops working. Now that they are brain dead  and about five minutes pass, the cells began to undergo changes in a domino affect. After so many cells have been changed the body begins to decompose. After about an hour or so too many changes have been made and that person can not be brought back to life."So it's not a moment; it's a process that actually begins when the heart stops and culminates in the complete loss of the body, the decompositions of all the cells." Although the body is dead , the mind (different from the brain) may still be working. Scientists are working to find out what exactly is going on in dead people's minds. Once this insight is gathered science and religion will have a extended gap between them. This study will be a bit quarrelsome because it will in fact prove how afterlife operates and whether certain beliefs are even valid.