2017-09-16, 07:59 PM
Well, let's break down the logic here. When you have an NDE, two unpleasant things are happening:
1. You are in mortal danger, so there are health issues to take into consideration. Upon returning, they may have been proven too severe to resume a normal life.
2. You will have the most amazing experience of your life bar none, this is indisputable. When you return, however, few people will believe you and/or care about and/or be able to handle what you have to say about it and/or how it changed you. This may lead to isolation and other unpleasant feelings. There's a reason why NDErs greatly benefit from NDE support groups, IANDS meetings, etc. This is the same reason why I, having taken their cumulative message to heart, feel quite the disconnect with society and its contemporary values of what matters.
But if these two things can be overcome, having an NDE under circumstance where you return healthy and can cope with the isolation it might come to entail, then the question essentially asks this:
Do you want to have the by far most amazing experience there is, i.e. a preview of what death entails?
To help us approach this question more generally, it might be worthwhile to ask what those who have actually had the experience and know what it's about reason regarding this question. I've heard some NDErs envious of other NDErs who have had more than one, like they had it as a vacation home or something. And most NDErs seem to be quite thankful for the experience, although there are exceptions. As one NDEr put it, "I would die to have another NDE, that's a corny answer I know but it's true."
So if the general consensus of those who have had the experience is that it is worth having it, I'm quite sure the answer for most should also be "Yes" on purely rational grounds, given that the individual is certain that the above-mentioned hurdles won't be an issue.
So if we in the future could flat-line people with a high degree of precision and safety, having an NDE might one day replace the idea of having a vacation. Like a yearly thing you do, bathing in the bliss of total love.
1. You are in mortal danger, so there are health issues to take into consideration. Upon returning, they may have been proven too severe to resume a normal life.
2. You will have the most amazing experience of your life bar none, this is indisputable. When you return, however, few people will believe you and/or care about and/or be able to handle what you have to say about it and/or how it changed you. This may lead to isolation and other unpleasant feelings. There's a reason why NDErs greatly benefit from NDE support groups, IANDS meetings, etc. This is the same reason why I, having taken their cumulative message to heart, feel quite the disconnect with society and its contemporary values of what matters.
But if these two things can be overcome, having an NDE under circumstance where you return healthy and can cope with the isolation it might come to entail, then the question essentially asks this:
Do you want to have the by far most amazing experience there is, i.e. a preview of what death entails?
To help us approach this question more generally, it might be worthwhile to ask what those who have actually had the experience and know what it's about reason regarding this question. I've heard some NDErs envious of other NDErs who have had more than one, like they had it as a vacation home or something. And most NDErs seem to be quite thankful for the experience, although there are exceptions. As one NDEr put it, "I would die to have another NDE, that's a corny answer I know but it's true."
So if the general consensus of those who have had the experience is that it is worth having it, I'm quite sure the answer for most should also be "Yes" on purely rational grounds, given that the individual is certain that the above-mentioned hurdles won't be an issue.
So if we in the future could flat-line people with a high degree of precision and safety, having an NDE might one day replace the idea of having a vacation. Like a yearly thing you do, bathing in the bliss of total love.