While many people have claimed to go "somewhere beyond" and see strange things during near-death experiences, little can be done to prove these people right or wrong. It is nearly impossible to grasp the full concept of death and the unknown, however, evidence provided by those who've survived these close encounters generates a great deal of controversy regarding the possibility of the strange things that they have claimed to see through the change in the survivors perception of life and/or way of living after the event, the "out of body" element sided by the person's ability to describe exactly what they looked like and what was happening during the encounter with death in a religious or non-religious manner, and the extreme ability for these
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On one hand, people who have experienced such a close encounter with death and have voiced their opinion on the matter would tell you that there are the most bizarre encounters with the "afterlife". However, on the other hand, you have people who want scientific proof or factual evidence to provide an explanation for these strange occurrences, in which there is very little of. It almost comes down to the oldest controversy humans have ever had; to believe in something "beyond" our normal lives when we die, or if that's just bullshit. After looking from the perspective of both sides during research on the topic, I found some compelling arguments trying to prove the "other side" …show more content…
"Over time, the scientific literature that attempts to explain NDE's as the result of physical changes in a stressed or dying brain has also, commensurately, grown. The causes posited include an oxygen shortage, imperfect anesthesia, and the body's neurochemical response to trauma. Near death experience victims dismiss these explanations as inadequate. The medical conditions under which NDE's happen, they say, are too varied to explain a phenomenon that seems so widespread and consistent." (Lichfield, Gideon. "The Science of Near-Death Experiences." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 23 Nov. 2015, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-science-of-near-death-experiences/386231/.) It's truly hard to tell whether the stories that these people who have been through these experiences could have actually occurred or it just a figment of their imaginations. There was a study done in 1989 with an MRI scan of the brain of a patient who had experienced an NDE a year prior. What the Neuro specialist found was that the patient's Synapsis fired at a much higher rate in the lower middle (where memory is stored) part of his brain than almost any other patients he had ever examined before. He decided to examine the brains of four other patients who had never experienced an NDE and saw that their synapsis's did not fire
On one hand, people who have experienced such a close encounter with death and have voiced their opinion on the matter would tell you that there are the most bizarre encounters with the "afterlife". However, on the other hand, you have people who want scientific proof or factual evidence to provide an explanation for these strange occurrences, in which there is very little of. It almost comes down to the oldest controversy humans have ever had; to believe in something "beyond" our normal lives when we die, or if that's just bullshit. After looking from the perspective of both sides during research on the topic, I found some compelling arguments trying to prove the "other side" …show more content…
"Over time, the scientific literature that attempts to explain NDE's as the result of physical changes in a stressed or dying brain has also, commensurately, grown. The causes posited include an oxygen shortage, imperfect anesthesia, and the body's neurochemical response to trauma. Near death experience victims dismiss these explanations as inadequate. The medical conditions under which NDE's happen, they say, are too varied to explain a phenomenon that seems so widespread and consistent." (Lichfield, Gideon. "The Science of Near-Death Experiences." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 23 Nov. 2015, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-science-of-near-death-experiences/386231/.) It's truly hard to tell whether the stories that these people who have been through these experiences could have actually occurred or it just a figment of their imaginations. There was a study done in 1989 with an MRI scan of the brain of a patient who had experienced an NDE a year prior. What the Neuro specialist found was that the patient's Synapsis fired at a much higher rate in the lower middle (where memory is stored) part of his brain than almost any other patients he had ever examined before. He decided to examine the brains of four other patients who had never experienced an NDE and saw that their synapsis's did not fire