Posted on 10/14/2025 7:49:54 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Sarah’s heart stopped for three minutes during surgery. When she came back, everything felt different, just not in the way anyone expected. She returned from what felt like unconditional love, only to find she could not connect with her own husband. The trivial concerns of daily life felt meaningless. Her marriage ended within two years.
Sarah isn’t alone. A new University of Virginia study finds that near-death experiences often bring deep spiritual shifts and can reduce fear of death. They can also strain the closest relationships and leave experiencers feeling isolated in a world that suddenly feels hard to relate to.
Published in Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, the research surveyed 167 people who had near-death experiences. These are episodes reported by people close to death that can include leaving the body, meeting deceased loved ones, or feeling overwhelming peace. Prior work suggests that roughly one in six critically ill patients report such experiences, so they are not rare.
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Well, technically you only die when you STAY dead.
God decides when you are dead.
Iow — atheist study
If you’re dead and you know it, clap your hands!
If you’re dead and you know it, clap your hands!
If you’re dead and you know it, then your face will surely show it!
If you’re dead and you know it, clap your hands!.....................
Researcher 1:It just so happens that they were only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do.
Researcher 2: What’s that?
Researcher 1: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Translation: "167 people who lived to chatter on about their "lived" experience."
Since the study is under the auspices of the American Psychological Association -- "meh."
For those Freepers who actually go to the study -- who DOES that? -- one reads its a bunch of anecdotes "interpreted" by those "researchers." More "meh."
It is assured that the "Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia School of Medicine" will happily accept more government funding to churn out this stuff.
What about Lazarus who Jesus raised from the dead?
A brain doctor wrote a book on the subject. He thought the subject was quackery. Then he wrote of stories of a dead girl meeting her brother who died before she was born-parents never told her about the brother. Then she told her parents of the goofy hat and shirt the father wore at their wedding long before she was born. They never told her of that either.
There usually is a story of being in a tunnel.
I find the experience interesting but I think biblically, most would disagree stating you only die once.
Agree. Also why “near-death” experience is a good name for this phenomenon. While I don’t buy into it, I don’t reject it outright either. God works in His own ways, not gonna put Him in a box.
Dang it all! Now you’ve got me singing along!
That’s why they call it a “near-death” experience.
“Nearly 70% reported changes in religious or spiritual beliefs and new views about survival after death.”
I’ve read about a number of these experiences, & can well imagine people would come back with a totally revised world view. And a need to change fundamental things about their current life.
Lazarus comes to mind, so apparently there are exceptions but only by God’s direction. In general, we should not expect a second chance at this life nor reincarnation into another one.
What about after expwriencing h3ll? Had one- didnt see no light- did see darkness, experience ubearable heat, suffocsting sand, etc. No wonder im whackadoodle
The clinical definition of death is "The total, irreversible cessation of all metabolic activity."
That's physical death. I've had a "near-death experience."Don't really want to talk about it but involved the "feeling overwhelming peace." mentioned in the article.
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