near-death experiences

• commonly occurring features:

  • out of body experience
  • tunnel to a bright light
  • meeting deceased loved ones
  • feeling immense peace in positive experiences
  • point of no return
  • profound change in lifestyle + in attitudes to death + afterlife
• evaluation of near-death experiences

  • the individuals are not actually dead, so they do not provide evidence for life after death
  • the experiences are hallucinations caused by medication or by the brain's release of endorphins
  • examples of people with no optic nerve reporting sighted experiences can be quotes in support of their genuineness
  • the transformation of lives is evidence for the genuineness of the experience