Some scientists argue we suffer a near death experience due
to our brain malfunctioning, and
the neurological explanation of our
‘near miss’ causing our minds to be
tricked into a fractional moment,
in which we believe we are dead.
These events are usually brought to
the attention after an individual has
been pronounced clinically dead or
has been very close to death. With
recent developments in cardiac
resuscitation techniques, the number of reported NDEs has rapidly
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increased. Indeed, the accounts of
near-death and out-of-body experiences can be found in the recounted stories and written literature
of about 95 percent of the world’s
cultures (Shelis 1978). The media
has become increasingly interested
with near death experiences after
Raymond Moody’s 1975 published
the book, ‘li fe after life’1 and the
international association for neardeath studies in 1981 was founded.