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[Angrboda]

NDEs are currently unexplained. A few more personal anecdotes wouldn't change that. I think you have a poor grasp of what constitutes evidence if you feel that the personal anecdote of a friend should change one's opinion on a matter of fact. A third of all NDEs do not involve near death experiences. In the AWARE study, out of something like 1500 cardiac arrests, only 100-150 survived to be interviewed. Of those, only 2-3 had awareness during their arrest. These are rare phenomena and not clearly understood yet. Drugs can induce powerful emotional experiences as well (ayahuasca, DMT) so it's not clear whether NDEs are a normal brain process or something else. What is known is that people appear to be able to have conscious experience in the absence of measurable brain activity. That's all. It doesn't prove that people are capable of having experiences in the absence of brain activity. There's a difference between measurable brain activity and a conclusion that there was no brain activity. Moreover, most NDEs weren't even monitored for brain activity, so the level of measurable brain activity in most NDEs is unknown.

NDEs are an interesting phenomena, but we simply don't know enough currently to offer them objective validity.