Does this one question defeat all religions?

Hell no that's stupid. But I do find it interesting that how a person perceives a near death experiences is almost always culture dependent. Much like the hallucinations experienced by a schizophrenic. You know...a person suffering from a mental illness caused by structural defects or improper brain chemistry? Kinda like what you get when your brain is anoxic?

It's not really evidence of anything of course. It's fascinating talking to people who have experienced an NDE because they get extremely defensive when you bring it up and I've never understood why.

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"The variability across cultures is most likely to be due to our interpretation and verbalizing of such esoteric events through the filters of language, cultural experiences, religion, education and their influence on our belief systems either shedding influence as an individual variable or more often perhaps by their rich interplay between these factors." Phenomenology of near-death experiences: a cross-cultural perspective.
Belanti J1, Perera M, Jagadheesan K.

A lot of the key themes are universal.
The interesting thing is they have studies of 'post-death' experiences, where brain activity should have ceased for a significant time. These are interesting - by no means conclusive. Sam Parnia's work...

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