Near death experience - did he really mean that?

Just to add, sbu, he wasn't hoping for annihilation before his natural death. He wanted to live in this world as long as he could. He just didn't fancy sitting on a cloud and playing the harp for eternity, which I can understand.

Edit. Just to add, he writes (in that post mortem addendum) that reincarnation would be plausible if it could be shown that many persons had memories of past lives which they had no possibility of knowing. Well, that's been met now.

I completely had missed that “ mortem addendum”. It seems to clarify things.