(2024-12-12, 09:14 AM)sbu Wrote: The only conclusion I’m drawing is that a resuscitation specialist—someone who resuscitates people in hospitals daily and has spent their entire career searching for NDEs—has not been able to compile his own database of 43 “spectacular” accounts to extract themes and commonalities. This suggests that such spectacular NDEs in cardiac arrest settings are exceedingly rare, likely occurring with decades between them.
While NDERF has some merits as a hypothesis-generating tool, it should not be used as a basis for firm conclusions. I was in contact with Jeffrey Long’s wife over 20 years ago when they were looking for someone to translate a Danish NDE account into English. If they allowed random internet contributors like me to add to their database, it’s inevitable that it would contain numerous errors, exaggerations, and other inaccuracies.
So you didn’t watch the presentation?
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