Personal Experiences: Near-Death-Experience (Ndes)

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Before I deal with Near-Death-Experiences (NDEs), I feel the need to change the term, NDE, as Actual-Death-Experience (ADE) as Parnia insists. That is because those who argue that they experienced the otherworld during receiving resuscitation actually experienced death in a physical sense. So, their experiences should be regarded not as NDEs but as ADEs.
In fact, ADEs are not crucial for me to form my theology regarding afterlife for two reasons. Firstly, I stand on the side of a Lutheran pastor’s assertion written in Zaleski’s book: “If life after death could be empirically verified …., then there would seem to be little need for faith” (263). As ADE can be truly happened to some people, I do not regard ADEs just as the results from hallucinations.

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