- Near Death Experience
- Near death experience refers to various different personal experience of an individual associated with death that is about to happen (Gibson, 2006). Many people view this experience under different angles that encompass various possible sensations. The sensations include feelings of extreme fear and need for more security. According to many sociologists, many people experience the sensation of detachment with the body and see the presence of light. Some people find refuge to their relatives when having this kind of experience. Many people consider that the experience changed their life while others fail to comment on this issue. The experiences fascinate everyone including the learned professionals who do research about human characters and behaviors.
- There are various general perspectives associated with the time that a person is about to die. According to scientists, many people who nearly die due to various reasons and come back to the normal life have always had different experience. All the experiences that this people tell have common elements that relate in certain aspects. According to interviews done by a couple of researchers, they depict that most of the experience that people have when in a near death situation are not real. However, only the person who had the experience has the right to prove whether the experience was real or not. Some people who had faced such kind of situation consider that the experience had made a profound change in their lives. In various situations, some of the people with such kind of experience like to share with others while others keep all the information they have on their own.
- A medical doctor known as Raymond Moody introduced the perception of near-death-experience. According to Moody, the most credible situation in life of a human being is when having this kind experience. Moody illustrates that there are different kind of people who view this type of experience as of significant meaning into their lives while others fail to depict any essential issue. Many religious leaders view that it is actually true that people experience various possible events that may indirectly affect them in life when they come back to normal life. Various elements occur when people are about to die but most of them are not real. Many people say that they cannot remember all that they experienced in such moment while others say they cannot forget anything for the rest of their lives.
- Many researchers state that a person having this experience is able to depict various unknown sounds. According to various interviews done by different philosophers, they depict that many people state having heard of various sounds while in a sense of being dead. Many of the people who had this kind of experience state that they heard a bucking voice. Other people state that they heard a ringing voice when nearing to their graves. From the views made by people who had this kind of experiences, they state that it is no longer simple to live as they did in their previous because they are able to hear different unreal sounds.
- According to scientific study on the issue of death, there is certain prove that people hear certain sound during this troubling situation. Many people indicate various illustrations concerning the issue of depicting various sounds when they experience this kind of situations. Scientists have documented various conversations that relate to sounds that different people consider they were making (TAN, 2010). Many of these scientists verify that these kinds of conversations seem to be true. According to a various opinions from different people, a fascinating phenomenon appears when a particular person seems to be having a spiritual chat with unknown figure. Mood states that the conversation may be between the concerned person with a particular family member or a close friend.
- There is peace and calmness when a person is about die. According to people who have ever had such an experience, they state that even after having much pain while they were dying, the pain then disappears. They illustrate that instead of feeling pain, there is a moment of peace and calmness especially at the moment of physical death. According to people with this kind of experience, they state that there is peace when some one is dying. Others indicate that they feel being in a new world that does not experience any troubles. The main idea that scientists depict from this issue is that there is a major difference while one is alive and when a person is dying. Philosophers and religious leaders state that the difference in this both situations is due to spiritual meaning.
- Many people who have ever had such an experience state that they experienced bright light when they were about to die. On the experience of being of light, the scientist by name Mood states that after making many interviews and conducting a lot of research, he came with a conclusion that people experience a very bright light while dying. According to Mood, people who experience the bright light first have a vision of a dim light (Gibson, 2006). The light the light then continues top become brighter as the spirit is nearing to separate with the physical body. The light finally ends becoming brighter until it reaches a point beyond any earthly light can produce. According to many people, they illustrate that the light they experienced did not harm their eyes. The experience of the light according to many people is not effective and does not prevent them from seeing anything that surrounds them.
- From the experience of viewing the light, many religious leaders associate this example with Godly matters. Religious leaders view that, a person’s religious background indicates the level of brightness that a particular individual experiences. According to Mood, he illustrates that those in Christian world belief that the light is a manifestation of Christ. Those who have knowledge in religious issues draw various illustrations that show how Christ has power over death (Randall, 2010). Christian individuals who have ever had the experience state that the experience about seeing the light is real and not a make up. Some of them state that they experienced an image of an angle while seeing the light while others say it was just a plain light.
- According to people who have ever had a near-death experience, they state that there are sensational moments that accompany this experience. The sensational moments are out of an individual body experience. One of these moments is how they felt with their body while they were about to die. In a research done by several scientists, they state that many people indicate having an experience of rising up while others felt like they were floating on the air. Those who have ever experienced this situation state that the feeling of the physical body is uncomfortable and they could not like to have such and experience again (Cheryl, 2011).
- When a person is experiencing this kind of a situation, there is a requirement of making various decisions. According to the research done by many philosophy scientists, they depict that people who were about to die expresses various decisions from that condition. Some of the people state that the condition helps them in making a firm decision over the importance of religion (Bruce, 2008). From this experience, many people realize that, death is not something that occurs even but it is a certain process where a person has the capability of experiencing various issues.
- From the experience of light, many people indicate that they had a particular interest of the situation. Many say that they had various decisions that rose from that experience although they fail top explain them. Others say that the experience with the light gave them the opportunity to decide whether they would choose to return on the world or not. Many of this people illustrate that they made the decision to come back to the world because of their loved one (Jay, 2010). The religious people associate this experience with the presence of the holy ghosts when a person is about to die. They argue that the Holy Spirit give a person a chance to repent various committed sins while in the normal life. However, this perception contributes in developing of many discussions and arguments concerning the relationship between death and the religious matters.
- After researching on this issue for a long period, scientists have come up with the perception about the situations that people experience. Many of medical scientists have expressed various views concerning the issue of how various people experience when they are about to die. According to scientists, there is a close connection of mechanism applied when a person is dying with the dying of the brain. However, scientists have not been able to identify whether consciousness is removable from a living body. Scientists indicate that the experience that many people have concerning the issue of death has a similarity with the Rapid Eye Movement (Gibson, 2006). On this issue, scientists illustrate that this experience comes because of some parts in the brain being in the same activation as the one that happens during REM. Most of the scientists conclude that these experiences that people perceive to have seen are just like how dreams seems to be real in various cases. Some scientists state that the issue of the experiences that most people get is like the hallucinations that can occur in a normal person.
- Many scientists have established various theories concerning the issue of how different people experience when they are about to die. Many of this theory prove to be true while others fail to hold any reliable information. Some of these theories include the one that explains the connection of hallucination and this particular experience (Christian, 2011). The researchers divide themselves into two while describing various issues concerning this arguable topic. Some of them argue that the visions that most people experience while they are about to die is just a functioning of a lump tissue in the dying brain. Others support the views of expressions made by most people who had such experience stating that these experiences are real. Though in most cases, no one can judge whether the story that each particular person give is real or not.
- The near- death-experience experiences fascinate everyone including the learned professionals who perform research about human characters and behaviors. From the research and interviews made by most of the medical scientists, there is reliable truth concerning the issue of this worrying experience. Many people give true stories concerning what they experienced while they were about to die. From the research done by medical scientists, there is a close relationship of an individual life with family members and best friends. This is the reason that makes it possible for a person to have various vision of the loved ones while about to die. The view of scientists that the experiences many people have when about to die is the function of dying brain is arguable. The main question derived from this particular view is whether there is the possibility of a dying brain to behave according to what the affected people explain.
- Reference
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- Cheryl, F, &Harris, F. (2011). Near Death Experiences and the Possibility of Disembodied Consciousness. NeuroQuantology; Volume: 9 Issue: 1, Pages 41-53
- Christian, A. (2011). Near-death experience: Out-of-body and out-of-brain?. Review of General Psychology, Volume: 15, issue: 1, Pages: 1-10
- Gibson, A. S. (2006). They Saw Beyond Death: New Insights on Near-Death Experiences. New York: Cedar Fort.
- Jay, L.N. (2010) Near-death experiences: Out of body and out of mind?. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Volume: 2, issue: 2, Pages: 117-118
- Randall, J. L. (2010).THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE: A RELIABLE PARANORMAL PHENOMENON? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research; Volume: 74, Issue: 901, Pages: 254-259, 6p.
- TAN, K. A. C. (2010). The Near-Death Experience: a glimpse of a positive life after death. LILIPOH, Fall2010, Volume: 15, Issue: 61, Pages 48-49, 2p,
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