I think the questions relating to seeing currently living or already deceased persons during an NDE needs context. What role do these beings play during the experience? For this we need to study actual examples, look at the details.
For example - and here I generalise, which means this is full of maybes, just possibilities, maybe the deceased give a welcome, or act as a guide. But they may also tell the person they need to go back. Now what do the living seen in these experience do? Are any of them playing the role of a 'welcoming party' or acting as guides? (I don't recall any - I'd be interested to hear of examples). Are they simply observed with no interaction? That seems most common - the difficulty of communication is often reported. Or maybe the living asks the person to come back - this is not the same as telling them they must go back. Instead perhaps a child may say "who will look after me when you are gone?" as part of a plea.
I can only repeat, actual examples are important. Otherwise this is only speculation.
(This post was last modified: 2019-07-04, 08:22 AM by Typoz.)
For example - and here I generalise, which means this is full of maybes, just possibilities, maybe the deceased give a welcome, or act as a guide. But they may also tell the person they need to go back. Now what do the living seen in these experience do? Are any of them playing the role of a 'welcoming party' or acting as guides? (I don't recall any - I'd be interested to hear of examples). Are they simply observed with no interaction? That seems most common - the difficulty of communication is often reported. Or maybe the living asks the person to come back - this is not the same as telling them they must go back. Instead perhaps a child may say "who will look after me when you are gone?" as part of a plea.
I can only repeat, actual examples are important. Otherwise this is only speculation.