Question about Near Death Experiences

[Angrboda]

Thanks for your logical response. I think what you said makes sense. I only find it slightly puzzling as to why people who have had experiences of some kind would lie or embellish them, but then there must be a reason as to why non of these experiences have ever been proven.

NDEs, because of their context and because of the inherent nature of the experience, are highly charged emotional experiences. People respond to strong emotional stimuli in various ways, not all of them productive. For what it's worth, I don't think that the majority of them intentionally embellish their accounts, but there is a culture of exaggeration surrounding NDE researchers who desperately want their theories to be given credibility. I imagine it's easy to get caught up in the hysteria of "true believers." It's unclear whether NDEs change with each retelling, but it would be one of the very few human phenomena where that doesn't occur.