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<blockquote data-quote="GrayAngel" data-source="post: 59885348" data-attributes="member: 162431"><p>Evidence for near-death experiences comes from secular sources, including an organization called the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) and the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). There was an episode devoted to it on Dr. Oz, and a BBC documentary called "The Day I Died."</p><p></p><p>Obviously, it can be hard to study NDE's. You can't just kill a few participants and revive them a few minutes later. That would be a major research ethics violation. However, there have been a few articles that have attempted to study it, interviewing people after their experiences.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pentathon.talktalk.net/lancet.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.pentathon.talktalk.net/lancet.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>Scientists, of course, would like to explain the events in purely biological terms. However, some cases can be really hard to explain. One woman mentioned in the BBC documentary was in the middle of surgery when she became clinically dead. This was a unique case, as doctors had been observing her brain activity (I believe the surgery was on the brain), and they noted that her brain had completely shut down. There was no activity going on in the brain. Additionally, she had plugs in her ears, and her eyes were covered, yet she reported floating around the room hearing conversations and seeing things, including a drill she thought looked like an electric toothbrush. All of these things should be impossible.</p><p></p><p>I mention all of this as if I believe in NDE. I don't necessarily. Some of the things people report are inconsistent with my religious views, so I don't know if some of them are faking it while others are not, if some of them experience the events because of changes in brain activity while others have genuine experiences, or if the whole of NDE could be explained away. I am on the fence on this issue.</p><p></p><p>Evidently, there are also studies on Distressing Near-Death Experiences, which are kind of like what we'd expect for someone going to Hell. These are the minority of NDE, however.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrayAngel, post: 59885348, member: 162431"] Evidence for near-death experiences comes from secular sources, including an organization called the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) and the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). There was an episode devoted to it on Dr. Oz, and a BBC documentary called "The Day I Died." Obviously, it can be hard to study NDE's. You can't just kill a few participants and revive them a few minutes later. That would be a major research ethics violation. However, there have been a few articles that have attempted to study it, interviewing people after their experiences. [URL]http://www.pentathon.talktalk.net/lancet.pdf[/URL] Scientists, of course, would like to explain the events in purely biological terms. However, some cases can be really hard to explain. One woman mentioned in the BBC documentary was in the middle of surgery when she became clinically dead. This was a unique case, as doctors had been observing her brain activity (I believe the surgery was on the brain), and they noted that her brain had completely shut down. There was no activity going on in the brain. Additionally, she had plugs in her ears, and her eyes were covered, yet she reported floating around the room hearing conversations and seeing things, including a drill she thought looked like an electric toothbrush. All of these things should be impossible. I mention all of this as if I believe in NDE. I don't necessarily. Some of the things people report are inconsistent with my religious views, so I don't know if some of them are faking it while others are not, if some of them experience the events because of changes in brain activity while others have genuine experiences, or if the whole of NDE could be explained away. I am on the fence on this issue. Evidently, there are also studies on Distressing Near-Death Experiences, which are kind of like what we'd expect for someone going to Hell. These are the minority of NDE, however. [/QUOTE]
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