Near-death study: Brains explode with activity as heart stops

[yellowcanine]

111. Problem is many people including me were bombarded with scary hell fire stories as children

as a means of getting us to behave and think in a certain way. I call that a scam. It is not a matter of convincing who is right and who is wrong. I can believe in an after life (where did you get the idea I don't?) and still not have a problem with skeptics. Why is that a problem? I have no problem with anyone believing or not believing in an after life as long as they aren't imposing that belief on others as a means of controlling them. Unfortunately, this has happened and still happens. If you don't think this is a threat, you haven't been there. Because I have and I can tell you that it is. Far more people have been hurt by misguided believers in life after death than skeptics. It isn't skeptics who are scaring children with hell fire stories. Given how belief in an after life has been used by organized religion in the past people have a right to be suspicious of life after death stories. Also, in this particular case, I am not sure what the problem is. An increase in brain activity after the heart stops neither proves nor disproves anything about life after death. Death occurs when the brain dies, not when the heart stops. And this is precisely why I give little credence to "near death stories." If you can remember something your brain was not dead. Anything you remember was a dream, not an afterlife experience. That doesn't mean the after life isn't real. It just means that people who have these experiences weren't dead and therefore didn't experience any after life.