Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs

Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs

G. Shushan

This seems to do little more than point out the obvious regarding NDEs, that they promote afterlife beliefs, with a number of cross-cultural features being shared but with some differences also. This is a safe and trivial observation - obviously behaviorly true based on the actual experiences of the NDErs. What this write-up fails to do is go further to delve into by far the most important and crucial question NDEs raise, whether or not they are real indicators of an afterlife, whether NDEs are really somehow merely hallucinatory. Of course this has been hashed out endlessly, with I think the great preponderance of evidence being in favor of an afterlife.