Roughly 300,000 people die each day, a large proportion of them in hospitals surrounded by potential witnesses. If only one dying person in ten thousand had a ‘near death’ experience and survived to recount it, we would still expect to accumulate hundreds of them in the course of a month. But we don’t see anything …
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How do atheists explain people who have been brain dead and visited heaven?
Personal experiences while unconscious are very normal. Usually we refer to them as ‘dreams’, and we have no trouble distinguishing what people see and hear in dreams from actual events taking place in the real world. Similar experiences under other conditions are known as ‘visions’ or ‘hallucinations’ or—if they’re persistent—’delusions’, but there is no suggestion …
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