"evidence of the afterlife" is a book with good evidence of the afterlife

i encourage folks to read Dr. Long’s book “evidence of the afterlife” to get some concrete science that points to NDEs being more than just hallucinations. for example, when out of body experiences are studied under scientific conditions, the folks who have the experience are almost always accurate in describing events that happened outside their body while they were dead. folks who try to just guess what happened outside their body are almost always way off. the book mentions the work of heart surgeon (skeptic turned believer in the ‘realness’ of NDEs) Dr. Parnia, the AWARE study, where a couple experiences accurately describe events outside the body in a verified and documented situation. another factoid, is that folks meet relatives during the experience and the relatives are almost always dead: if this was just a hallucination, folks would experience living folks and less relatives a lot more often. then there’s how drugs dont replicate the NDE….. drug experiences are almost always random experiences, random imagery in hallucinations, not consistent stories with common themes of the afterlife like NDEs. also, there’s the fact that common themes like tunnels and meeting a being of light are consistent when measured and documented across cultures and with people who have never heard of NDEs, including young kids. finally there’s just a philosophical point…. the idea that people just consistently hallucinate afterlife stories when they die pushes credibility. is there some story embedded in our brain or genes or something? it’s a ridiculous notion.
there’s a load of other scientific factoids in that book. i highly recommend it. clearly there’s something deeper going on with NDEs than just hallucinations.

There is not one single relevant "scientific factoid" in that excuse for a book.

And there is nothing deeper except deeper hallucinations.

The entire book is about as shallow as Paris Hilton's intellect and makes not one statement and instead alludes by questioning.

It is an utter piece of unmitigated rubbish.

such hardened hearts

lolcat

Looks like a dead horse that you are flogging there....I wonder if it had an NDE.

Of course the obvious similarity between an NDExperiencer and a DEexperiencer , is that the neither can actually experience or relate an afterlife experience. 

so your claim is that it's common for people to hallucinate afterlife stories when they die. that's a pretty wild claim, too.  are afterlife stories embedded in our brain, our genes, or or how does that work? 

not to mention that you didn't even try engaging in the evidence in the opening post. which is no surprise, because the evidence objectively points to a mystical experience... and it's easier to just wave your hands of it, if your choice is to ignore the evidence and have faith in nothingness when we die. 

why are the people in near death experiences almost always dead? what is preventing them from hallucinating their loved ones who are living, a lot more often, if all it is is a hallucination? 

A. One is either dead or not.

B. Where do dreams come from.

C. "Almost always dead"?.....See A.

D. Mystical is as mystical does.....As far as we are able to know, mystery is a preoccupation of the living. 

this thread just shows that atheists like skepticism for the sake of skepticism... and it shows how ignorant and idiotic the atheistic world view really is. 

Dr. Steven Laureys heads the Coma Science Group at the university hospital in the city of Liege. He and his colleagues published a scientific study on NDEs in 2013.

NDEs feel “even more real than real,” Laureys said. It’s this sparkling clarity and living color of the experience, which many have when they lose consciousness, that he and his team have researched.
But he doesn’t think it comes from a spirit world. Laureys is a scientist, he emphasizes. He prefers not to mix that with religion.
His hypothesis is that near-death experiences originate in human physiology. “It is this dysfunctional brain that produces these phenomena,” he said.

Laureys says. “There is no evidence there can be conscious experience without brain activity,” he said.
Lying in your hospital bed, you have become a true believer, and you are happier for it.
But your brain never died, the doctor tells you. You were in a coma. Perhaps your heart stopped for a while; maybe it didn’t. But that’s not even necessary to have an out-of-body experience.
“Many individuals having had NDEs were not physically in danger of death suggesting that the perception, on its own, of the risk of death seems to be important in eliciting NDEs,” the study said.
It’s enough just to think you’re dying to have one.

So how can this be "shown"?

The fact of the matter is, it can be shown that NDE's occur even during complete brain death and up to hours later.

You can start by watching the documentary above, or you can research it yourself.

"NDEs Absolutely, Positively NOT Caused By Malfunctioning Brains"

"Near-death experiences have been well documented all over the world. They do not seem to be culturally motivated nor do they have bias when it comes to age or gender."

"The International Association for Near-Death Studies says: “Every day in the U.S. 800 near-death experiences occur.”

A lot to consider.

But nonetheless, nothing to affect the bottom line.... Death is Death.

ND and subsequent recovery is not death.

And "hours later" was left a grey area....As autolysis is a rapid and almost instantaneous process that occurs after actual  death.

So an NDE is just that, and may be a normal physiological response in ND situations.....

Maybe NDE's only occur in people with numerous brain lesions. In a recent prejudicially skeptical review, Mobbs and Watt (2011) provided a synthetic outline of possible neurobiological mechanisms of NDEs, concluding that there is nothing paranormal about them. This statement implies a clear-cut incompatibility between science and parapsychology, which is at least partly questionable. In fact, parapsychology may be defined as the study of physical phenomena beyond those presently understandable (Morris, 2001)—a matter that in itself does not imply any incompatibility with science and its methodologies. Instead, it only tracks the border between what is actually known/understandable and what is still to be understood/redefined, while facts by themselves can only be true or false, not paranormal. 

Maybe that's just what you want to believe.

How does a dead person recount tales of an afterlife experience?........ALE

Because that's what you are actually trying to say......But what you are saying never quite adds up.

ND is not dead....To recount an experience a person must recover...Therefore an ND person, no matter how minimal their function and living processes might be, is still capable of producing dream like experiences or hallucinations.

So depending upon how one chooses to interpret the evidence, it's never going to be possible to pin down a living answer....So we will have to wait until we die.

Hopefully you won't be disappointed.

I had a OBE when I was in college and took LSD. I never had one since.