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James Owen
for National Geographic News
Published April 8, 2010

The team studied 52 heart attack patients who had been admitted to three major hospitals and were eventually resuscitated. Eleven of the patients reported near-death experiences.
More http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... n-dioxide/

Check out these NDE debates on Skeptiko Podcast. This one is with Steven Novella.

http://www.skeptiko.com/near-death-expe ... n-novella/

Here is a critique of Steven Novella's NDE arguments and how they fail to explain the data.

http://www.skeptiko.com/critique-of-skeptics-guide-249/

Dr. Novella has not said that NDE's are fully explained. He has said that progress is being made and we are learning more all the time. I like his approach. This is an area of study that is in progress. The AWARE study is currently studying what happens to the brain when we die. It will be looking at NDE's closely as well. The results should be interested, though it looks now that it will be the end of next year, or early 2012 before we have them.

Skeptics,
A question for you. In this clip, Dr. Jeffrey Long talks about NDErs experiencing 360 degree vision, which is medically inexplicable. How do you explain that? How can one during a hallucination experience 360 degree vision?



Also, how do you explain the NDE's of people blind from birth, as mentioned in the clip above?