dead reports having a near-death experience. (245)
Some critics argue that the near- death experience results from the
brain's response to distress. They claim that the brain reacts to the threat
to the body so that fantasies and memories of the 'childhood flood the
consciousness'.(264) However, if the skeptics were right the experience
would be unique to the individual. We know what the brain is capable of,
but to say that the content of every brain is the same is farfetched.
There are common components in experiences described
irrespective of differences of the people who experienced it. The sense of
being dead, being in a tunnel, meeting people of light, life review and the
presence of light. These people were different in age, nationality and
It is recognized that every human being is unique. Then, why
should everyone's brain produce the
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