[ryao]

> On the spiritual side, I think it is somewhat calming. I face this at times when you have patients that pass away and you talk their families; you have to be the bearer of bad news. Right now, we don't know anything about what happens to their loved one’s brain when they're dying. I think if we know that there is something happening in their brain, that they are remembering nice moments, we can tell these families and it builds a feeling of warmth that in that moment when they are falling, this can help a little bit to catch them.

I do not see any connection between this and spirituality. I also see no reason to think that they must be remembering nice moments. It is possible to be remembering painful moments. This seems especially likely in cases of PTSD.

[aeonfox]

Spiritual perhaps in that it satisfies a need that cannot be provided by material comforts or by the mere intellectualising of it?

[yieldcrv]

It's just a byproduct of needing to be syndicated at a University in Kentucky