(November 10, 2011 at 11:53 am)Rhythm Wrote: Oh we don't? Disagree all you like, but disagreeing on the basis of a favored fairy tale isn't exactly compelling.rom your links we read
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environ...dying3.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decomposition
I think a much more accurate way of expressing your disagreement is that we don't know how to reconcile your fairy tale with observable reality. That's not exactly "not knowing what happens when we die", is it?
"What you think has happened to the essence of the person at this point is dependent on your religious and cultural beliefs. But as our examination of the postmortem body " So perhaps a better title would be the biological process of dying
And the associated link from that author take you right to here
"A statistical analysis of more than 100 NDE subjects revealed that prior religious belief and prior knowledge of NDEs did not have an appreciable effect on the likelihood of having an NDE."
And before you get into ... but.. but the weren't brain dead so they're not really dead (just nearly), the discussion has been done already. Here's the first I found on a quick Google search
If you can't even use links that support your views or feel like questioning every legal medical measurable brain death diagnosis where the patient recovered.. have fun.
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always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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