Why do atheists keep ignoring near death experience stories?

Question

There have been tons of stories of people in hospitals who was dead for a couple of minutes to an hour and they experienced the after life. So many people claim to be atheists but when they're on that hospital near death you can see them sweating, looking depressed, scared, anxiety, and a whole bunch of other feelings. Also I've watched videos on Youtube about stories of near death experiences and every time I see that the person changed and weren't the same person they were before.

Answer 1

Why do atheists keep ignoring near death experience stories



- We don't, we just understand that their experience does not exist outside of their imaginations. So they had a good time. So they think that there is an after life. They prove nothing other than some people have active imaginations.



So many people claim to be atheists but when they're on that hospital near death you can see them sweating, looking depressed, scared, anxiety, and a whole bunch of other feelings



- ALL people near death act that way.



How are they hallucinations if the person has absolutely no pulse/energy/electricity in their brain while they're dead?



- Because we do not understand the extent of the human brain. Your fantasy is one possibility. Absurd, but a possibility.



I believe that when people see another God instead of the Christian God/Jesus it it actually probably Satan deceiving them.



- Of course you do, but then you think NDE's are actually real.

Answer 2

How do Christians view the ones where people meet the Buddha?



They're hallucinations.

Answer 3

Same with Bigfoot I think.

Answer 4

because they cant prove it their dreams

Answer 5

A near death experience is exactly what it says on the tin. It does NOT mean post death. You must remember that coming back from the brink of death happens on many occasions. Moreover, brainwave functions undergo an electrical surge when a person is close to death. It has been shown in experiments on rats that although clinically dead, their brain activity continues for some time after the rest of the body has expired.

Answer 6

There is still electrical activity in their brain, I promise you.



NO ONE has ever recovered from actual brain death, it is impossible (at least for now). Also, once someone's heart has flatlined on an EKG, they don't recover from that either. Once electrical activity has ceased, it does not return. When you hear of people getting defibrillated ("shocked"), there is still electrical activity in their heart, it is just that they have a life-threatening dysrythmia and their heart is not pumping in an efficient or coordinated manner and it will eventually stop if left untreated. The "shock" is to restart their heart into a more stable rhythm (like sinus rhythm, etc...), but once it stops completely (flatline), it's over.



Don't believe your TV.

Answer 7

Just because they ask for proof doesn't mean they will accept it.

Answer 8

hallucinations, and everybody dislikes mikelol Again, hahaha

Answer 9

Beside they think it's hallucinations.

When it happens to them they'll see and hopefully God will have mercy on them.



What happens after death?

I have experience death and may I say, it's something that we all must go through, the terrible feeling of knowing you will have no memory of others, regrets of what you done in the pass, the pain is extreme and can't be bearable. I was one of those countless people who died. As I was surrounded by darkness my eyes, closed, and then open. I didn't witness the heavenly paradise like those who were believers in Christ (God), I experience the opposite. Due to my disbelief, my arrogantly lifestyle and sinful desires, it lead me straight to hell. Imagine being dragged in a dark tunnel and the heat is too intense, knowing it's too late to go back and try to repent. I've witness that. We think that this life is just it and were silenced in the grave. No. There is life after death, and there is also destruction after death.

Answer 10

if they dont believe moses and the prophets neither will they believe if someone comes back from the dead

Answer 11

No one who has ever been *completely* brain dead has ever come back to tell us about it. If a person survives their experience, they had some brain activity. It may barely register on machines, but it's there. No exceptions.



That said, we don't ignore NDE's, not at all. We simply don't regard them as proof of anything, any more than some guy having a religious experience while on LSD would register to you. We do, however, chuckle at the irony of being called closed-minded, when we are the ones allowing for any number of explanations that need not absolutely require *one specific* type of afterlife phenomena to be plausible.



We are the ones that say there are other possibilities. The brain, anesthetized or in a coma, is still picking up sensory information from the body, even though consciously for the most part is not present. The brain, as it always does, even when awake, processes this info in unfathomably complex ways, so as to package a neat story that it tells your mind during those brief periods of semi-consciousness. When you awake, you regard that story as a memory, and being superstitious, you tell yourself that it was a first hand account of things you couldn't possibly have seen (because your eyes were closed, and also you were functionally dead).



The reality is that the feelings, sounds and smells your brain picks up are relatable to things you've already seen (visually) before. Furthermore, there are really only so many things that can happen in a hospital setting, so it's not difficult for your brain to paint a picture of things that actually happened. Very few people claim to have seen, say, a clown walk into the adjacent room and silently form balloon animals for their daughter while waiting for them to awaken. What if that happened? Why didn't they "see" it? Because there was no sensory input to form that picture, because it happened outside of the range of their senses. The things they tend to "see" are along the lines of things one could expect to actually happen (tears, low talking in the corner, the doctor announcing the surgery was a success), along with the story that the body and brain help to create about what was happening to them.

Answer 12

Because they're stories for which there's absolutely no evidence for, and they're debunked whenever they're investigated.

Answer 13

We don't. We do, however, realize that they're the result of a brain starting to shut down, and that NDEs contain a wide variety of imagery, much of it completely unrelated to Christian doctrine.



Why do believers in one religion ignore all the near death stories that don't support their religion?

Answer 14

Because there are rational, scientific explanations for them!

Answer 15

Because no one has YET provided ANY Valid Testable evidence they actually occur...