If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

[FatAndFaithless]

Just trying to parse your position here - are you saying that NDEs are evidence for consciousness survivng physical death?

And I agree, NDEs do happen during the process of death...not after death, hence their name.  So how could NDEs be evidence for what happens after the process of death is complete?

NDE research falsifies the theory that mental experieces are contingent on a functional brain. Since the brain states of people during an NDE are so extremely low as to be nonexistent that is the closest possible, second best, option to study. Now if consciousness is not dependant on the brain that strongly suggests that consciousness can, though perhaps not always, continue beyond actual death. That is what the best researchers believe based on their interpretation of the data. My point is that none of the skeptical critics have performed their own research.

Who are the 'best researchers'? And if the requirement for a functional brain has already been falsified as a necessity for consciousness...why don't most doctors and scientists accept that? What do you think accounts for this resistance to such an obviously-falsified idea?