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    The numbers of reported near-death experiences have proba... — Carmelics
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    The numbers of reported near-death experiences have probably increased in recent times.

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    • Improvements in medical technology enable many to return from a state of 'clinical death'.
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    • 1.Increased reporting of NDEs reflects heightened cultural awareness and legitimization since Moody's 1975 'Life After Life', not increased incidence.
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    • 2.Survivorship bias and changing social permissibility of disclosure inflate apparent frequency without altering the underlying rate of occurrence.
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    • 1.Resuscitation techniques existed in earlier centuries, yet historical records contain comparably rich NDE-like accounts in Plato, Plutarch, and medieval literature.
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    • 2.If medical technology were the primary driver, pre-modern NDE reports should be negligible, but the cross-cultural historical record contradicts this expectation.
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    More recently, it has been claimed that a superior source of evidence lies in so-called “near-death experiences” (Bailey and Yates (eds.) 1996). These are experiences of persons who were, or perceived themselves to be, close to death; indeed many such persons met the criteria for clinical death. While in this state, they undergo remarkable experiences, often taken to be experiences of the world that awaits them after death. Returning to life, they testify to their experiences, claiming in many cases to have had their subsequent lives transformed as a result of the near-death experience. This t...

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