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

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If you want to qquibble, what death means for research purposes is not having a functional brain that could in any way support  cognitive functions.or regulate bodily processes. Research has shown that NDE experiences happen during that state and not after.

Bollocks. It's unclear what cognitive functioning remains after a cardiac arrest, but to state that research shows that the brain is completely without function is a gross exaggeration. (See for example, my post here.) Animal models clearly show that memory is a product of a functioning brain. That NDErs have memories of their experience is at odds with the notion that the brain is completely without function during that state. Moreover, veridical NDEs at best provide evidence that consciousness and the body can be separated. That's not the same thing as life after death, and it's only survivalists' interpretation that this evidence shows life after death. You've made quite a generalization, unfortunately it rests on very thin ice.