Al Pacino Brush with Death

A recent article in 'Variety' carries the headline,

Al Pacino Nearly Died From COVID and Reveals ‘My Pulse Was Gone’: ‘I Didn’t See the White Light or Anything. There’s Nothing There’

To me that's fair enough, what he experienced was what he experienced, that's sufficient.

However Jan Holden of IANDS has written a letter to him, giving her perspective on the matter.
https://iands.org/images/PDF_Files/IANDS..._FINAL.pdf

We researchers haven't yet found a difference between people who do or who—like you—don't report an NDE following what seem to be identical physical medical crises. Because you don't remember anything from your cardiac arrest, it makes sense that you would conclude that nothing exists beyond this life. However, among people who have had multiple close brushes with death due to a serious chronic medical condition or to just being unlucky, they sometimes report an NDE and other times do not. For this reason, one can't conclude from one experience that consciousness does not continue after physical demise. Be prepared for the possibility of a very different experience the next time you come close to death!