My Uncle had a stroke and he no longer recognizes his family or loved ones...?

Question

Has that part of him (or his brain) gone to heaven?

Answer 1

No, it just doesn't work anymore. Damage to the brain causes damage to the persona. This is solid evidence that souls just don't exist.

Sorry, but there is no Heaven or Hell. God doesn't exist.

Luckily, some stroke damage can be repaired in the brain. The brain stores information in a distributed fashion, so it can rewire to recover some and make new links with new information. Still, damage is damage and some loss is expected.

Answer 2

Religious people will not have an adequate answer for this question without contriving and postulating all sorts of unprovable nonsense, even if that nonsense is comforting to many people, about how he'll be whole again in some afterlife. I'm sorry to hear about your uncle but the man as you knew him may be gone forever.

Who humans are as a person is simply a collection of memories and ones thoughts and feelings about ones memories. They are stored in the brain. When one suffers brain damage of any kind it can cause what has happened to your uncle. Sometimes it gets better, many times it does not.

It is a mistake to shield ones self from the reality of life that life will one day end and along the way bad things can happen.

I'm very sorry.

Answer 3

I'm sorry about your uncle. Unfortunately he won't be completely at peace (go to heaven), until his whole body is at peace. My dad died almost 2 years ago from cancer and he went for a time without recognizing anyone. It was almost as if they go into some sort of communication with the spirits as to when they will finally go home. I know it's tough, but continue to visit your uncle during this time, even if he doesn't recognize you. It will be important to you after his passing.

Answer 4

Depending on age and his overall condition, it is possible to recover completely from a stroke or at least to regain certain abilities (like speech, use of the inflicted half of his body and so on), so it might well be that he will recognize his family one day again. But this is a matter of a good therapy, and of luck, too.

Answer 5

Well lad, there are numerous interpreations of this event in spiritual terms and let us rejoice for the good one.
Maybe he was summoned from the heavens above due his good nature and his inner cleansed soul largely a result of his faith to lead a honest and philanthropistic lifestyle. He is here physically, but I hope he will come down from heaven to tell the tall tales of the angles and seat of god above.

Though in neurological terms mate, depletion of blood to certain parts of the brain...that lead to short circuit, (a disbalance in ionic gates on cell walls that lead to eventual electrical signal mixup leading to a damaged circuit, that in turn either permanently destroyed the different memory cells that kept different combinations for memory, or simply broke the connection) if you will, to his memory processing parts of the brain. It was indeed due to loss of O2 molecules, along with glucose, imbalance in CO2 ratio resulting in an incresed "viscosity" effect of O2 molecules and so many more factors that lead up to it.

With the certain advacenments in neurological sciences we hope to bring back numerous lost memories and souls as well.

Answer 6

We aren't taken up in pieces.
Sorry about your uncle. Didn't know a stroke would have that sort of an effect.

Answer 7

That is such a tough question.
A very conservative Catholic might argue that he is still here - just, more or less, stuck in his physical form.
I would like to think that he is in Heaven now. But I cannot say for sure. I hope that you find a more studied theologian to answer your question. In the meantime, accept my condolences for your painful loss.

Answer 8

No. His brain has experienced a loss of normal function. Unfortunately people's bodies suffer malfunctions and accidents just like any other machine.

Answer 9

Sorry about your uncle. That is a tough way to go.