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Near Death Experiences: What Do They Mean?
Are they proof of an afterlife?
In recent years many volumes of work, as well as numerous websites, have been dedicated to multiple incidents of NDEs — Near Death Experiences. Many are the personal experiences of the author, while others are authored by medical staff, recording the testimonies of their patients. The volume of these experiences is enormous. It probes the most fundamental question of our existence. That is, the nature of our consciousness as a wholly material phenomena, or as a state of being that transcends our physical self. Are these experiences evidence of an afterlife, or are they just the last hurrah of a dying brain, giving the owner a psychological cushion of comfort to protect them in their final moments of existence?
For the many who have experienced a NDE, it has often altered their outlook on life in a profound way. They no longer have any fear of death. They are able to see their life in better perspective. It has often imbued their lives with a greater sense of meaning and they invariably believe in a life after death.
Some skeptics will argue that as the people experiencing such phenomena have returned to life, what they experienced was not death at all and so can’t be treated as such. Near death experience is exactly what it says on the tin, near death rather than a…
