crocodile deathroll

Or do "yet to be conceived people" keep having near life experiences?

Boro Nut

I think all NDE's can be discounted where there is no corroborating forensic evidence. For instance, it is a scientific fact that 'I shat myself' comes before 'I nearly died'. Try this yourself with a rubber knife and a dark alley. My experience is the reaction scale for old ladies ascends as follows:-

Dropped My shopping bags
Dropped my colostomy bag
Shat myself
Nearly died
Heart attack

As you can see, to get to 'Nearly Died' you must first pass through the preceding stages*, so if someone says they had a near death experience but have totally clean shreddies you know they are either exaggerating or lying. More likely they just nearly shat themselves and were in no real danger at all. You can see then that the white tunnel is simply a subliminal vision of the toilet and the warm feeling relates to the primal memory of pissing your bed.


Boro Nut

*-With older people you have to be careful not to be mislead by existing stains though.

eh

Charming post, Boro Nut.

Now are you sure the whole crapping your pants thing is not an urban legend? Does everyone necessarily shit their pants as they die, or just in some cases?

Kosh

Of course! Remember that part where they take you into the room to "choose" who you're gonna be born to?

crocodile deathroll

I do not think you will be in any position to choose as you could of potentially become anyone until one is actuated, and that is the way is will be until you die.

And when you die I am sure there will not be a party of long dead relatives that will welcome you like you hear of in many of those NDE anecdotes as those relatives, like you, would be so completely oblivious of their past existence :boohoo: as if they were never even born in the first place.
I would be like a great cosmic reset button has be activated on them and you

Kosh

IIRC, the Mormons believe that newborn babies have full memory retention of heaven, ie when they were angels, and that they slowly loose them over the first year or so.

I could be mistaken, but I seem to recall somebody telling me that.

Puck

How well can we detect activity in the brain? Could there be some minute activity going on we can't detect?

I've always thought that NDE's were some small part of the brain kicking in to ease us through the scarey-ist thing we'll ever do. Just a tiny little bit of firing of synapses, tapering off as we fade. A little built in kindness, if you will.