(February 19, 2014 at 3:02 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(February 19, 2014 at 2:00 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: evidence from near deathNot evidence. Near death is not death.
Brain is still functioning. most people who go through near death does not experience anything. Only a few think they've experienced something.
Something happened alright, in their brains!
Not to mention that over a third of "near death" experiences don't occur anywhere near death.
Atwater Wrote:The International Association for Near-Death Studies sent out a questionnaire in 1992 inquiring about those who considered themselves to be near-death experiencers. How close had they been to physical death when their episode occurred? ... 37 percent had theirs in a setting unrelated to anything that could be construed as life threatening. ... The 37 percenters claimed to have experiences every bit as real, involved, and life-changing as those that happened to people during death or close-brush-with-death crises; and their reports duplicate or parallel the same spread of scenario types and a pattern of psychological and physiological aftereffects.
— P.M.H. Atwater, The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences