Maybe this is too late for evolution to have any say.
The "memories" that flash before one's eyes might just be a byproduct of how the brain is built ― imagine if it had to just dump all the electric charge that was saving all that data.
Whatever it is, however, there's no way the evolutionary mechanisms are going to have any impact. Why? Because memories or no memories, the person is just dying and will not be able to pass this characteristic to their offspring.
I remember reading somewhere that our health degrades as we get old because the factors that cause this degradation occur too late in the human's lifetime, so that no matter if they get them or not, they probably have already passed them (or not) to their children.
The "memories" that flash before one's eyes might just be a byproduct of how the brain is built ― imagine if it had to just dump all the electric charge that was saving all that data.
Whatever it is, however, there's no way the evolutionary mechanisms are going to have any impact. Why? Because memories or no memories, the person is just dying and will not be able to pass this characteristic to their offspring.
I remember reading somewhere that our health degrades as we get old because the factors that cause this degradation occur too late in the human's lifetime, so that no matter if they get them or not, they probably have already passed them (or not) to their children.
Also, maybe this comment[0] can offer a hypothesis on why this is may *be* important evolutionary-wise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31059618.