Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

For me, October is the best month of the year.  It is the month that brings us one of my favorite celebrations...Halloween!  But over the years I have started enjoying another celebration...Dia de los Muertos!  The day of the dead.  
 
Don't let the name fool you.  Dia de los Muertos  is not meant to be sad or frightening. On the contrary!  It is an uplifting time to remember loved ones who have died.   It is celebrated with festivities, lots of goodies and the coming together of friends, families and loved ones. It is a time of reverence. Or as Cesareo Moreno, Chief curator at Chicago's National of Mexican Art stated so eloquently...


 
"Day of the Dead is a very sacred day. It's a day in which we welcome back the memory and the souls of those people who are still — are still — an important part of our family, even though they many not be physically present"  

(Click HERE to read his interview with Chicago Tribue©)

Here Are Some Fun Facts about Día de los Muertos

The Day of the Dead falls on November 1 and 2 of each year, coinciding with the Catholic holidays All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.

Although November 2nd is the official date for Day of the Dead, it is celebrated between October 31st and November 2nd. Usually the preparations (and some festivities) start even earlier than that. So really, the "Day" of the Dead can also be called the "Days" of the Dead, because the holiday spans more than one day.


Traditionally, November 1 is the day for honoring dead children and infants, and November 2 is the day for honoring deceased adults.

Source: http://www.art-is-fun.com/day-of-the-dead-facts/ 

To learn more about Dia de Los Muertos  just click  HERE

 















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Study Finds Evidence of Life After Death

There have long been stories of near-death or out-of-body experiences but, as researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. wryly note, "objective studies on these experiences are limited."

So they decided to investigate whether these claims corresponded with actual events. Their conclusion: It does seem to be possible for some form of awareness to happen for up to a few minutes after death, they report in a study published in the journal Resuscitation.

Beginning in 2008, scientists looked at 2,060 people who went into cardiac arrest (which they describe as "biologically synonymous with death") at 15 different hospitals in the U.S., U.K., and Austria. Of the 330 people who survived, about 40% recalled awareness while they were clinically dead. (The lead doctor tells the Telegraph that number could be higher if some of those people's memories weren't dulled by drugs or sedatives.)

Of those, 46% had memories not commonly associated with NDEs. A sampling:

• "I was told I was going to die and the quickest way was to say the last short word I could remember."

• "All plants, no flowers"

• "Saw lions and tigers"

• "Being dragged through deep water"

Only 9% had experiences "compatible" with NDEs, and 2% had ones compatible with OBEs, where they explicitly "saw" or "heard" moments tied to their resuscitation. There was one "validated" case in which the patient was able to describe events that happened during a three-minute period in which he had no heartbeat.

"This is paradoxical, since the brain typically ceases functioning within 20-30 seconds of the heart stopping and doesn't resume again until the heart has been restarted," says the study's lead researcher. "These experiences warrant further investigation." (Scientists had previously learned that rat brains go into overdrive following cardiac arrest.)

This article originally appeared on Newser: Study Finds Evidence of Some Form of Life After Death