OK, i havent had a near death experience (except for living). However once i dreamt that id fallen off a cliff, plummeted, and then it just sorta went dark and very peaceful, thats all i remember a feeling of great peace and calm. Now this whole time i was lying in bed, in good health.
Also in other dreams i have quite often viewed myself from a third person persepective. Maybe if someone with an out of body experience could tell you information from outside the room their body is in it could be interesting.
As far as being able to remember conversations of the surgeons etc i dont consider this as proof at all, as you are in the room, hearing is the last sense to leave us, and so its possible u just heard it and remembered it, rather than watched from outside.
In reply to a previous post, although not all religions believe in an afterlife, im not sure of any that do not contain at least a form of continuation, such as reincarnation etc.
Its instinctive for every animal to try and survive, and so between a choice of an ending (death) and continuation (is that even a word??) i suspect a lot of people are going to choose the latter. Especially those who are upon their death beds, when the event is one that is very immediate.
And to finish i'd quite like to share a quote at this point from Joseph Heller (catch-22) I have a morbid aversion to dying. Found it fairly amusing meself.
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....
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