User:Candles59/Near-death experience

As much as one can read and do research on near-death experiences and inform themselves on all the physical aspects of it, they will never truly understand it without experiencing it themselves. This can be seen as a dualist stand-point that the mind is immaterial and you cannot physically touch it or see it. Same thing goes for NDE, you cannot physically understand it, you must experience it.

Near Death Experiences aren't very common, yet when they happen, many researchers have come to reveal patterns. People have time and time again experienced an out-body sensation, a meeting with the dead, a euphoric environment as well as this so called 'tunnel of light' which steers neuroscience into searching for physical evidence that can explain this abnormal repeated phenomenon's. These NDE have led people to believe that they are practically dead, when in reality, around 2/3 of the victims are all but close to death. It begs to differ, are NDE physical, psychological, emotional, social, etc.? Many paranormal beliefs have been awakened from these claims, yet none being confirmed or denied.

In the U.S., an estimated 9 million people have reported an NDE, according to a 2011 study in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Most of these individuals near-death experiences result from serious injury that affects the body or brain and if they're lucky, they get resuscitated. After this experience, these people are completely changed as people and how they view and live the rest of their lives. They don't take life for granted anymore, they tend to appreciate the little things in life more. Another great change is they tend to not be frightened by death anymore. They experienced what death is like first-hand and like everything, once you try something once, you're not afraid of the unknown anymore.

Conclusions of NDE
After many studies and experiments, near-death experiences are medically inexplainable and it can not be understand or solved by the function of the brain. Therefore, this could very much be aspect of dualism since nothing physical or medical can explain these episodes.

The medical conditions under which NDEs happen, they say, are too varied to explain a phenomenon that seems so widespread and consistent.


 * 1) Long, Jeffrey (September–October 2014). "Near-Death Experiences Evidence for Their Reality". Missouri State Medicine.