NeuroQuantology | December 2016 | Volume 14 | Issue 4 | Page 806-809 | doi: 10.14704/nq.2016.14.4.968 Reddy JSK., Biophoton emission be the reason for mechanical malfunctioning at the moment of death eISSN 1303-5150 www.neuroquantology.com 806 Could ‘Biophoton Emission’ be the Reason for Mechanical Malfunctioning at the Moment of Death? J. Shashi Kiran Reddy ABSTRACT NearDeath experiences (NDEs) and End of Life Experiences (ELEs) provides new insights into the nature of consciousness (mainly into its nonlocal and nonmaterial aspects). Knowing the extent of implications these could have in the science of consciousness, numerous studies have been carried out to demystify the mechanisms and processes involved in the generation of NDEs and ELEs. One such phenomenon; well discussed in NDEs and ELEs literature, that received very less attention from the scientific community is malfunctioning of mechanical objects (such as clocks stopping, malfunctioning of TVs and other electronic devices, etc.) starting at the moment of death in the room of a dying person. On the other hand, there has been little evidence suggesting the bulk emission of biophotons during the time of devastation or death. Considering the results from few recent scientific investigations that demonstrate the role played by biophotons in triggering potential changes in the processing of mechanical objects, here we propose that specific mechanisms involving biophoton emission could probably be related to unexplainable phenomenon surrounding the moment of death. In this regard, the present note acts as a starting step and calls for more experimental investigations that could decode the mystery behind such events and thereby verify the present hypothesis. Key Words: biophotons, neardeath experiences (NDEs), end of life experiences (ELEs), mindmatter interaction, emission DOI Number: 10.14704/nq.2016.14.4.968 NeuroQuantology 2016; 4:806-809 1 “Matter of itself has no power to do, to make, or to become. It is in energy that all these potentialities reside, energy invisibly associated with the material system, and in interaction with the energies of the surrounding universe.”  D.W. Thompson (1917) Introduction Recent scientific investigations reveal that there could be an inherent connection between biophotons (having localized human origin) and nonlocal humanmachine interactions (via quantum processes; Persinger et al., 2014). Biophotons are photons (ultraweak particles) of Corresponding author: J. Shashi Kiran Reddy Address: Research Scholar, JNCASR, Bangalore560064, India, Phone: + 918861568004 e-mail  jumpalreddy@live.com, jumpal_shashi@yahoo.com Relevant conflicts of interest/financial disclosures: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Received: 23 June 2016; Accepted: 2 August 2016 nonthermal origin usually emitted by every biological system or living organism. Although human body emit biophotons (also called ultra weak emissions (UWE)) in the spectrum close to the human visible range (400700nm), because of its very low intensity (which is the order of magnitudes lower than human sensitivity levels), one can’t detect them directly using our sensory