How To Verify Death?

Is it possible to view medical documents that verify near death experience claims?

• Answer:

  Actually, reports of near death experiences have already been extensively investigated by experts. "Near death" experiences do sometimes occur, although sometimes in circumstances in which the person is not actually in danger of dying, but believes he is. Russell Noyes Jr and Roy Klette (Depersonalization in Response to Life-threatening Danger) report that even when a person thinks he is about to die, he can have similar experiences to those who have come close to death. Various conditions, such as oxygen deprivation or reduced blood flow, can also induce similar experiences. Near-death experiences are sometimes cited as evidence of an afterlife, but there has been no report of a person who has actually died (brain death) communicating with the "other side". Allan Kellehear (Experiences Near Death: Beyond Medicine and Religion) says that the experiences reported by those who have suffered near-death are inevitably coloured by the sociocultural context of the patient. This suggests that the Christian afterlife is experienced by Christians, but the Hindu afterlife is experienced by Hindus.