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5. Perfect Playbacks Life reviews in near-death experiences include real events that previously took place in the lives of those having the experience, even if the events were forgotten or happened before they were old enough to remember. gion or near-death experiences, are essentially identical to those of older children and adults. This refutes the possibility that the content of NDEs is produced by preexisting beliefs or cultural conditioning. 8. 6. Worldwide Consistency Near-death experiences appear remarkably consistent around Family Reunions the world and across many different religions and cultures. NDEs from During an NDE, the people encountered are virtually always non-western countries are incredibly deceased and are usually relatives similar to those that occur in people of the person having the experience; in western countries. sometimes they are even relatives who died before the NDEr was born. Were the NDE only a product of memory fragments, it would almost Aftereffects certainly include far more living people, including those with whom the It is common for people NDEr had interacted more recently. to experience major life changes after having near-death experiences. These aftereffects are often powerChildren’s Experiences ful, lasting and lifeenhancing, and the changes generally follow a consistent pattern. As the NDErs themselves almost always believe, near-death experiThe near-death experiences of children, including very young ences are, in a word, children who are too young to have real. developed concepts of death, reli- 9. 7. 56