Tackling Near-Death
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:37 am
by Hunter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7621608.stm
It took them this long to figure out how to disprove near death visions as simply being dreams? Wow, technological advancement indeed. Why didn't anyone think of sticking pictures on shelves before?
Re: Tackling Near-Death
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:41 am
by aldo
Hunter wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7621608.stm
It took them this long to figure out how to disprove near death visions as simply being dreams? Wow, technological advancement indeed. Why didn't anyone think of sticking pictures on shelves before?
Presumably sticking pictures up 'so you have something to look at if you die' wasn't considered the most... appealing decoration for patients.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:49 pm
by BloodEagle
Wait, so they're going to stick paintings (hopefully random, though hopefully not modern, because I wouldn't wish that crap on my worst enemy) in front of 1,500 people's faces, and check to see if the recognize them?
....
What would this prove or disprove? That someone had seen something similar once in their entire lifetime of existance? That God doesn't exist? That high fat diets, along with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, are the chief causes for obesity?
I really don't see the point.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:55 pm
by karajorma
Most of these people report floating up and seeing the doctors working over them. Now if when they come out of it they say that's what they saw but didn't notice a big sign painted on the top of one of the cupboards saying "You must be near death to ride this attraction" or an arrow pointing at the anaesthesiologist saying "I'm with stupid" then you've basically proved that the story was boll##ks.
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:19 am
by Top Gun
I love those little forms at the end of every BBC article.
Have you had a near-death experience? You can send us your experiences using the form below: