Questions tagged [near-death-experience]
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Is there any explanation for a near-death experience?
One idea I used to hear a lot about was that when people are near-death and saved by medical science that they sometimes see "a light at the end of a tunnel" in a vision.
Today I read about an article about a new best-seller from an ambitious…

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Near death experiences -- clinically dead person "sees" something, later verified to be true?
Related:
Is there any explanation for a near-death experience?
That question is about vague, light-in-the-tunnel near death experiences (NDEs). This question is about very specific claims I've heard advanced by Dr. Gary Habermas, a Christian…

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Does your brain keep thinking for seven minutes after you die?
There is a widely published meme that you keep thinking after you die:
After you die, it is believed that you have 7 minutes of brain activity left inside you
Obviously it doesn't hold true if one is shot to the head, but if one has a heart…

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