Evidence of life after death?

by little_Socrates 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  little_Socrates

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/life-after-death-largestever-study-provides-evidence-that-out-of-body-and-neardeath-experiences-may-actually-be-real-9780195.html

  "Experts currently believe that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping beating – and that it is not possible to be aware of anything at all once that has happened.

  But scientists in the new study heard said they heard compelling evidence that patients experienced real events for up to three minutes after this had happened – and could recall them accurately once they had been resuscitated."

  How are people having "experinces" while there is no evidence of heart or brain activity?
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  FFtruther144

  maybe this is somehow related:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnA8GUtXpXY

  very interesting
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  Daniel1555

  I believe Near Death experiences are real.
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  DaleRivers

  As someone much smarter than I am said 'Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.' It's likely there is some type of biochemical/ physiological activity that cannot yet be detected. Also, the number of subjects in the study seems too small to lead to any definitive conclusion.
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  cofty

  Here is the key sentence..

  Experts currently believe that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping beating...

  This is not evidence of "life after death". It is evidence that what was previously believed about the process of death might be inaccurate.
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  Daniel1555

  On the website www.nderf.org you can read thousands of firsthand near death experiences.
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  cofty

  And none of them - or even all of them together - amount to evidence of "life after death". They do provide data about the process of dying.
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  Daniel1555

  Probably humans will never be able to scientific evidence of a possible afterlife.

  Nevertheless these near death experiences contain elements that can not be put aside and just explained scientifically. For example when someone is clinically dead or has no brain function and explains in detail what doctors or family members said or did, even in other rooms of the hospital.

  JWs would say that the demons were involved.
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  cofty

  For example when someone is clinically dead or has no brain function and explains in detail what doctors or family members said or did, even in other rooms of the hospital.

  The plural of anecdote is not evidence.
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  GrreatTeacher

  Isn't the keyword in near-death NEAR?

  All of these accounts are from living people. They may have been NEAR death, but no one actually died.