Pim van Lommel's Essentia Foundation statement on NDEs & cardiac arrest

The article submitted by Van Lommel (or appears to be submitted by him recently?) is out of date. There's no mention of Parnia's Aware study, unless I'm mistaken. He wouldn't leave that out and quote Parnia's small 2001, one year study, surely.

You're right, that article does have a great similarity to this, date March-April 2014.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179502/

More interestingly than this (with no disrespect to Van Lommel), Parnia Greyson and Fenwick are producing a pamphlet (apparently) in order to differentiate between near death experience and actual death experience (cardiac arrest). This is tricky because the term near death experience has become enshrined in the literature to represent all the reported experiences. 

It looks to me like an attempt to move the debate on and shut down the inevitable sceptical objections/shenanigans (once and for all?) that they weren't really dead, so the brain was still working etc.

Parnia has for a while been promoting the term "Actual Death Experience", and gives good reasons for doing so. But it does have the side-effect of selecting only a very small sub-set of NDE cases. From the point of view of the patient or experiencer, the distinction may be irrelevant. The ambiguity of brain-state at the time is not something which concerns the average person when describing their own experience.