Does a "near death" experience prove life after death?

Question

The brain is programmed to respond to crisis in various ways: it deals with injuries by cutting out pain on a short term basis and crisis by flooding the body with adrenalin. On this basis could not the brain be programmed to allow us to "enter" the death process calmly, even with joy?

Answer 1

You make a very valid point, and I agree - I don't think it proves anything at all. Having had a "near death experience" myself, I can honestly say it neither proved or disproved the life after death theory for me.

I really think it is hallucinatory in nature, and perhaps you're right - perhaps it is the brain's way of easing the process, or maybe it's nothing more than a "fight or die" warning mechanism

Answer 2

I would really like to beleive that. But at the moment of death I truly hope that I will have made peace with myself so I can pass on with a smile on my face.

Near death experiences have been studied but there's little actual data. One interesting thing doctors have observed is that close to the moment of death there is an amazing increase of electrical activity in the brain. It's as if the brain itself is fighting to stay alive. This activity in the brain might explain what people "see" at the moment of death.

Whatever the reason I hope you won't have to find out for a very, very long time.

Answer 3

I basically elect to understand if the atheist can extremely provide the ultimate answer as they're so particular that God did not create existence? - i will tutor that the biblical version is a fable. All of genesis develop into plagiarized from the Sumerian pills having no longer some thing to do with deities so "god coming up existence" is a fable. - As to proving the position existence got here from, we settle for a organic procedure when you consider that that has evidence. A deity magically forming existence is a fable because you haven't started to tutor a deity exists and that what youi use as a proof is a properly shown fable. - There you've incredibly evidence and evidence and no hypothesis.

Answer 4

Read "Passage" by Connie Willis. It's a great novel about this topic. A NDE may "prove" life after death to the experiencer, but not to anyone else. I think your hypotheses could be possible. In the old timey days of Black and White Tube televisions, whenever you turned one off, the image shrank into and little white dot before disappearing entirely. Could these NDEs be our brains in the process of shutting off? Could everything experienced in the NDE have a physiological explanation? Sure, but, then again, there's no absolute proof of that, either.

Answer 5

Oh. You have answered your own question. When reading it, I was thinking to tell you that no matter what traditional interpretations would say, scientists have already figured out a way to explain away the "after death" part.

So, the answer to your question is "no". If there existed a consensus among humans that no life after death exists, this kind of experiences would never prove anything. Since now many of us believe in some sort of life after death, we would like to think they prove our belief. But some of us are not that naive to think they are an irrefutable proof.

Answer 6

trauma and the resulting effect of shock, with the reduced flow of O2 to the brain creates a delusional state. So no it is not proof of life after death to have a near death experiance. The crucial point is that it is near death, not death.

Answer 7

There is no alternative to death.

Answer 8

No, it proves two things:

First, that your subconscious mind was still functioning.

Second, that if you were unconscious, a medical professional pulled your eyelid open and shined a flashlight in it.

Answer 9

It better be programmed to do sumthin useful!

Answer 10

Hard to say, as getting there is rrather traumatic