CLOSE ENOUGH TO WHOM? NOT TO ME!!!!
"put themselves into THESE NDE'S"
NOT TO ME!!!
Put themselves into something SEEMINGLY SIMILAR IN SURFACE SORTS OF WAYS TO such NDE's is about as far as I could go down that path.
Your presumptive assumptions are showing again.
Take a walk on the darkside of this world and you might be interested in what you find there. The god of this earth is very devious and he will use the brains of people in theri weakest moments to push his propganda if he can. It is no coincidence that NDE also happen to people who use drugs to trip them into them and who can meditate themselves out of their own bodies to communicate with "angels".
It's not "similar"; it is the same experience, but not at " death" - not even close to it. Don't be fooled by this.