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"You assume the brain is designed to trigger a pleasant sensation when death comes. It could just be a random byproduct of the brain getting killed cell by cell. Kind of what happens to my harddrive when running several read/write operations and just switching it off. "

I know you are responding to someone else but this flies in the face of the evolutionists. According to the Darwinists only the adaptions that make a species more suitable to the environment persist. Creatures become more and more niche specific. An adaption that makes death less unpleasant does not enhance survival.

In the same vein since I have thought about things that defy evolutionary thought. There is a valve in mamilian ears that allows for pressure equalization. Everyone is familiar with the growing pressure in the eardrums when ascending while traveling.

The pressure imbalance is corrected by a valsalva.

Why would a feature that is necessary only in the age of speed have become a mamalian feature prior to it being necessary. No animal can move fast enough up a height for this feature to be useful.

I know you are responding to someone else but this flies in the face of the evolutionists.

I don't think so.

According to the Darwinists only the adaptions that make a species more suitable to the environment persist. Creatures become more and more niche specific. An adaption that makes death less unpleasant does not enhance survival.

How does this adaption hinder survival? A function that makes death more pleasant won't disturb you while you are living. In earlier times when you had an NDE you were most likely going to die. It's only our modern medicine that brings you backSo, this would mean it's an neutral mutation, if it is one. But it's more likely that it is an otherwise clever protection mechanism that just overreacts when the damage is too big. The brain is a fine machine but don't expect it to run properly when it' just seconds away from goin kapput.

In the same vein since I have thought about things that defy evolutionary thought. There is a valve in mamilian ears that allows for pressure equalization. Everyone is familiar with the growing pressure in the eardrums when ascending while traveling.

I think you have a typo there. Pressure decreases the higher you go. But I get your point.

Why would a feature that is necessary only in the age of speed have become a mamalian feature prior to it being necessary. No animal can move fast enough up a height for this feature to be useful.

I see. Well, pressure increases under water too. Next time you go swimming, take a dive. At 30 feet you'll have the twice the pressure. Your ears are gonna hurt if you don't equalize the pressure.

Anyway, I'm not an expert in biology but I'm a SCUBA diver. I have no clue why we have this feature or how it we got it, I'm just glad we have it or I couldn't go further down than 30 feet.