What causes a near-death experience?
More than a dozen theories have been put forward to explain the near-death experience and its physical causes, but none of them singly or together fits all cases. This is the nuttiest thing I ever heard. Like other things which have no rational explanation at the present time, near-death experiences may at first seem “nutty.” A near-death experience is a genuine experience – an event which one individual experiences and remembers – and it has consequences, but it cannot yet be explained in terms of what we usually think of as “normal.” This sure doesn’t sound very scientific. Science deals with objective matters, which can be observed, tested and measured by someone else. A near-death experience is a subjective experience: it can be felt and reported only by the person who has it. For this, among other reasons, some people claim that the near-death experience cannot be scientifically “real.” Conversely, other scientists consider near-death experiences as scientifically valid as any oth
