A near-death experience expert insists that one’s heart stopping doesn’t have to be the end, with current medical interventions that can help patients cheat death.

In an interview with The Telegraph, associate professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center Sam Parnia insisted that by and large, the medical industry is still very behind on the concepts of death and dying.

According to Parnia, studies from the last five years — including some undertaken by his own eponymous lab at NYU — have suggested that our brains remain “salvageable for not only hours, but possibly days” after death.