2007-02-21 05:27:46 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There have been cases where people have been declared legally dead and brought back to life, upon receiving consciousness they recount tales of great horror and suffering.
2007-02-21 05:31:18 · answer #1 · answered by Radictis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything I've read, or seen on TV, about people who die and come back--all they see is the light in the tunnel; sometimes a loved-one. I have never heard that anyone saw hell. This might be because they were not really "dead" enough to see much beyond the light.
2007-02-21 05:32:20 · answer #2 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a great question. I don't think you will find that thier is a conclusive answer but it is still a great question.
As I understand it medical "death" is getting more and more complicated as time goes on. When our heart stops beating most people would say that we are "dead" but our brain is still working, but with less and less oxygen. A common phenomium is the experiance of well being, a white light, sometimes a tunnel and sometimes dream like people who are comforting.
Memory is a tricky thing, without enough oxygen our brain cannot remember properly. When we have incomplete memories for any experiance our brain tends to fill in the details that it finds are most likely to have been "true". This is what is known as "false" memories, but remember they are very real to the people who have them. Many strange memories people have can be attributed to this, as people don't have to die or have restricted oxygen to have it happen.
I think that the tunnel and light experiances are due to the lack of oxygen, and that remembering them incompletely causes your brain to add the most likey "facts" to the memory to make it complete. I do belive that science (as in ridgid cause and effect) is not a good way of explaining everything though, so who knows?
2007-02-21 05:39:41 · answer #3 · answered by oneirondreamer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ones who would see hell don't get a chance to come back.
=) That's an easy and irrefutable, albeit baseless, rebuttle of mine!
Is this true? Does no one really see Hell? I'd think in a universe as big as this one, that there would be a billion places to go after death, and that there must be a lot of miserable people out there who would put their own souls into hell if they got the chance (i.e. died).
2007-02-21 05:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by A Box of Signs 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that no one is in or will go to Heaven or Hell until the coming of Christ...I think that all dead are in a sort of waiting period...but since the spiritual world is not bound by time..they actually aren't waiting and when they open their eyes again it will be as if no time went by..(how Christ would tell the thief on the cross "tomorrow")
Also when people were resurrected in the old and new testaments it makes sense that they weren't brought from heaven...but were here in a spiritual sense sleeping...
but of course it's all my speculation...
2007-02-21 05:36:28 · answer #5 · answered by L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Hell isn't opened yet. Hell is for the end of the age when the book of deeds is opened and those who didn't believe in Jesus are judged by their deeds. Right now when the so-called "bad" people die, they are in Sheol, which is just the abode of the dead. But the people who believed in Jesus go to heaven.
2007-02-21 05:31:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What people think of as near death experiences are not real! It is images created by the brain when there is a lack of oxygen. Sorts like a dream people have!
The reason no one sees hell is everyone think that what they do is right and that they are good. Even someone that it completely out of their mind like Hitler or Stallin thought that what they were doing was right. It doesn't mean everyone is right only that we view ourself as the hero not the villian!
2007-02-21 05:33:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think.. well I've heard studies that say the bright light effect that people say they see is something your brain does when it has no oxygen. Pilots get it when they black out from too much g-force. So, that's why the calming white light instead of red flames.
Also I think people see what they want to see (or remember what they want to remember), and the kind of people who think they see heaven also believe that's where they're going.
2007-02-21 05:34:14 · answer #8 · answered by skatc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There **HAVE** been people who have claimed to have seen Hell during NDEs.
There have also been cases where people have received messages from deceased acquaintances who said that they were now in Hell!!!!
2007-02-21 05:44:42 · answer #9 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lady wrote abook about seeing heaven and hell. I forgot her name but she said it turned her life around.
2007-02-21 05:30:47 · answer #10 · answered by Arthur D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋