What is a near death experience?
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A near death experience is when someone momentarily dies (heart stops beating, stop breathing, etc.).  During this time of being dead the person experiences things that may hint to where they will be going for eternity.  Some have said they felt heat and seen lots of red, very dark and scary figures and just a terribly frightening ordeal.  Others, have a sense of peace, brightness, calm, etc.  The person then returns to life and is able to remember and share what they experienced.  \n\nAs a paramedic, I've seen this sort of thing first hand while working on people who have had heart attacks or major trauma.  They don't happen very often nor to very many people but there are a numerous amount of stories.  I'm sure some are real and others are fake.\n\nThe majority of the ones that have a very Unpleasant near death experience, typically end up re-evaluating their lives and begin to question if they are truly living their life they way they should be.  After-all, no one wants to go through those type of feelings for eternity.  It's bad enough having to go through them for a brief moment in time.
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Yes, most certainly .... I had a near death experience in 91 and thats where I was taken to.
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My foster sister/best friend "L" had a near death experience... herat attack from the addison's disease ... she died  as the doctors tried to reviive her  at the hospital... they offcially her death.... she died for 45 mins with the white sheet covered... she suddenly found herself in the darkness area (hades) and she saw so many lost souls there... she cried  and she felt the heat coming to her... she knew it was the hell area... very black  area.. she cannot see herself, but she felt the heat. She felt very fear. Then an angel held her hands which helped calm her from crying and scared.. he led her out of the hades into the tunnel  to Heaven... she was told that she had to come back to the earth to finish her work...( forgiveness, make peace with people, to repent from her sins)... she came back to breathe... which the doctors amazely found her breathing on own.... they took her back into uci room and she was put on the life support for while... because her brain was not working good since she had no oxygen in her brain... while she died...for 45 mins. But it was really the miracle that God kept her brain from the damages.... she woke up and she lost most of her memories .. back to the baby style , like learn to drink.. to eat with the spoons /forks etc and then she had to learn how to walk good.. like a baby learn the steps... till she got her skills back and she started remembering many pasts and she started remembering people...  she is a born again christian.... she made many peace with people.... she cried lot... for the forgiveness.... she accepted  what she did wrong and to correct herself... it touched her really hard once she expereinced being in the hades... it is a terrible place she felt in there... and also  she heard the songs someone played witht he harp in Heaven , though she was deaf on the earth and she is still deaf. She still remembers the sounds of harp songs..... its a amaze expereince for her.. God gave her another chance to repent .. wow.. God has his very mercy for her... i can image if she died , not given a chance... she'd be in the hades  till judgement for another death  of the lake of the fire. She is very lucky to Have another chance....  she said she didnt feel anything when she died... she just found herself in the hades as quick as one blink eyes!  Its scary if people didnt get saved by jesus... they d go there... go to Jesus who will save you from the hell..He died for you....accept His salvation and life eternal...
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While I am terrified to die, I am a little  more than curious about what happens(if anything),after you die. My brain cannot grasp the fact that I am going to die, that is just bizarre!   I am so not ready.
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because death or bein dead is part of the unknown. people generally dislike unfamiliar circumstances i.e death. im scared of death, partially becuase im scared of how it will happen, but also becuase we dont 'really' know what happens after death till it happens. im not religious.. but who knows? no1.
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I believe that we are. I have talked to several people who had near death experiences and all of them  told me that they seen their dead loved ones in a bright light. They told me when trying to walk into the light, their love ones told them it wasn't their time, and they woke up inside their own body again.
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On two separate occasions, my heart and breathing stopped and I was essentially dead until resuscitated with CPR.\n\nI did not see any afterlife.
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When you are not close to God you feel as their is no meaning in life. Let me see if I can explain this. Um...when you don't have God, you are like a body with no oxygen, a lake with no water, you are a life with no meaning doomed to live all eternity in hell. Do you see my point. There is no hope with out Jesus. From experience, I know what it feels like not to be close to God. Every day I felt as if I wanted to die, I was miserable. But don't get depressed. Read the bible, pray, and trust in him. It will get better.
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I'm sorry to hear about your friend, as well as the others who have died. That's rough.\n\n(We had an incident here a month ago where an 8th grade girl was killed crossing the street at night walking home from a dance. Some of the kids witnessed it, and the community was shaken by the whole thing. It was just so unexpected, and seemingly unfair.)\n\nAs you can see from the earlier answers here, people disagree tremendously on whether an afterlife exists, and what it might be like if it does.\n\nDeath is a hard reality that we all must come to grips with eventually. The fact is simply that, like it or not, we all have to die, and we don't quite know (in any sort of way that can be "proven") what waits for us on the other side until after the fact. \n\nOh, we can firmly believe certain things about life after death, but it's still a matter of faith for everyone concerned.\n\nYour belief about an afterlife really is going to hinge on what you choose to believe about this world, who God is (if you decide he exists), what sort of relationship you could have with him, and how that relationship could come into being. \n\n[Based on my life experience and what I see to make the most sense, I do believe in an afterlife, God, and human souls who will be close to each other after death. Heaven's not a trophy or an amusement park reward like it is often portrayed ("Believe the right thing, and win the big prize!"), it's being close to all the people who have learned how to truly love others and God ahead of themselves... a place where you can be completely open because you know you are safe and accepted.] \n\nI wish I could give you a clear answer. What I can give you instead is a bit of direction: If you're worried about death and whether your loved ones will still be around for you afterwards, I would start with the search for God. The answer to that riddle for you will greatly determine what you believe about death.\n\nDon't be scared to search and explore, and enjoy life as you go in the meanwhile. Death is a hard thing to deal with, true; but when we accept it as simply a reality, we can live life in the moment without worrying about it.
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not the field of science, totally different realms of magisteria.  Science will never have an answer.  Science can only say that near-death experiences can be explained by oxygen loss to the brain.
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The term déjà vu (French: "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness" or "strangeness" or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.\n\nThe experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. However, in laboratory settings, it is extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience, making it a subject with few empirical studies.\nTypes of déjà vu\nAccording to Arthur Funkhouser there are three types of déjà vu:\n\n[edit]\nDéjà vécu\nUsually translated 'already seen' or 'already lived through,' déjà vécu is described in a quotation from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens:\n\nWe have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it![1]\n\nWhen most people speak of déjà vu, they are actually experiencing déjà vécu. Surveys have revealed that about one third of the population have had these experiences, more often (and perhaps more intense) in people between the ages of 15 and 25. The experience is usually related to a very banal event, but is so striking that it is remembered for years afterwards.\n\nDéjà vécu refers to an experience involving more than just sight, which is why labeling such "déjà vu" is usually inaccurate. The sense involves a great amount of detail, sensing that everything is just as it was before. Because of this, theories that the situation was just read about earlier or experienced in a previous life are invalid, as those experiences could not recreate the exact situation due to a lack of sense involvement or the presence of modern surroundings.\n\nMore recently, the term déjà vécu has been used to describe very intense and persistent feelings of a déjà vu type, which occur as part of a memory disorder. As described in Moulin, C.J.A., Conway, M.A. Thompson, R.G., James, N. & Jones, R.W. (2005). Disordered Memory Awareness: Recollective Confabulation in Two Cases of Persistent Déjà vecu. Neuropsychologia, 43 :1362-1378.\n\n[edit]\nDéjà senti\nDr. John Hughlings Jackson recorded the words of one of his patients who suffered from temporal lobe or psychomotor epilepsy in an 1889 paper:\n\nWhat is occupying the attention is what has occupied it before, and indeed has been familiar, but has been for a time forgotten, and now is recovered with a slight sense of satisfaction as if it had been sought for. ... At the same time, or ... more accurately in immediate sequence, I am dimly aware that the recollection is fictitious and my state abnormal. The recollection is always started by another person's voice, or by my own verbalized thought, or by what I am reading and mentally verbalize; and I think that during the abnormal state I generally verbalize some such phrase of simple recognition as 'Oh yes - I see', 'Of course - I remember', &c., but a minute or two later I can recollect
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Life after death is like Newtons 3rd law. \n\nHow?\nNewtons 3rd Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.\nLike that what you did while you alive will be the life(effects) after death.\nAm i right. enjoy
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I had an out of body experience.  I floated above my body and watched my friends try to wake me up.  They were yelling at me to breathe and I was alright after a short time.  When I came down, I realized what a low existence we live in.  Reality is a very low existence.  It's hard to put in words.....)(
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I have not but have recently been reading up on them...  go to www.near-death.com or http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Ai.Ajffve1XddA4PNA7okiQjzKIX?qid=1006030115045 and read the best answer, I found it to be a very good summary of what I have studied so far.
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No, it doesn't, because that describes what I used to be. I used to laugh in my mind and mock the priests when I was forced to go to church during my years in catholic school. I participated in the chants and the masses, but never believed. It didn't work, and it won't work. I simply don't believe, and nothing can change that. I've also had 3 near death experiences in my life, and "saw" all I had to see, absolutely nothing. I have no problem with the cold hard fact that I will be buried under 6 feet of dirt in a pine box. I'm not insecure about death, and that's why I don't "need" a religion, or believe in some deity.
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The first part will be the conclusion of your biological life. If the cause of your death involved pain, the five minutes that it takes for your brain to stop functioning will be like... Hell.  {When you dream, it really only takes a second or two for your higher brain to live the whole story.}  When you have five minutes in that realm, anything that was happening to your body will likely be amplified, and horrific dreams will spin around that experience.  The worst part is that you will have gone into it with the realization that you are dying, and the dark side of your brain will "have fun" with those matters.\n\nAfter your biological death, there will be a long rest. You will not be aware of much of anything but no further harm will come to you.\nThen there will be an awakening, you will be given a new -perfect body. You will be shown everything that you have done and how it affected everyone else. These things will be measured against perfection. You will be asked a question. After that, there will either be eternal pain, suffering, and a suffocating lonliness, or eternal peace and happiness in paradise with a number of other people.\n- There, a religious-free explanation of what will happen.-\n- But then, anyones answer to this question will be based on some element of faith because no-one comes back from the total experience-
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depends on what you consider a long time.  there are reports of Near Death Experiences of those who had been dead for hours and then were revived automatically, and they did revive by their soul returning to the body.  Now months or years down the road, not likely, but I wouldn't say impossible.