While he was dying, the EEG continued recording his brain activity, offering an image of the 15 minutes around his death. Doctors carried out an electroencephalography (EEG), which records brain activity, during which the man had a sudden fatal heart attack. He’d been admitted to a hospital emergency department after a fall resulted in a bleed in the brain, which subsequently deteriorated. The brain scan emerged during the treatment of an 87-year-old man for epilepsy. According to the research, published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, there may be evidence to back up the idea that you do in fact see your life in review in your final moments. Yet, through an accident in another study, scientists have been able to observe the brain as it shuts down for the first time. People who have faced near-death experiences have reported this as fact, and a number of psychologists attempted to analyse the phenomenon, but it’s incredibly hard to conduct any non-subjective research. It’s long been a staple of books and films – the conception that, when a person is dying, they see much of (or all of) their life flashing before their eyes.