Well, the next time you die and are able to return, ley us all know what you “see”.
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Oh really? Citations from the actual neuroscience literature to support this assertion?
Heh, I can bring to the table a hallucination of my own, that is informative here. Back in 1994, I was admitted to hospital with bacterial meningitis. As a corollary of being infected with meningococci, my body temperature was 104°F. The human brain has a habit of behaving weirdly when subjected to this sort of stress, and while waiting for the antibiotics to start working, I hallucinated that the nurse taking my temperature was a six foot cockroach.
Now, as a consequence of my time spent learning about invertebrate zoology, I knew that this was definitely a hallucination, even before I learned some important lessons about insect physiology (which were learned after this episode). But I decided to put the time to some constructive use, and try and work out which species of cockroach I was hallucinating. 
The reaction of said nurse to my mentioning this after recovery was, let’s describe it as interesting. 
But the point remains, that human brains can enter some pretty strange altered states, if the usual homeostatic balance isn’t preserved. None of those altered states are evidence for fanciful (and, as always, merely asserted) supernatural or paranormal entities or phenomena - they’re merely evidence of the capacity human brains possess to fabricate florid nonsense (as are likewise, the numerous mythologies humans have invented).
On the other hand, neuroscientists and molecular biologists have provided a wealth of data (including experimental tests) to the effect that brain chemistry underpins all of our neurological activity, including several clinically important disease processes (e.g., improper processing of dopamine in the brain leads either to Parkinson’s Disease or schizophrenia). Brain chemistry is, of course, the reason why certain drugs are addictive, as well as the reason that those same drugs produce assorted unusual euphoric states. No one aware of this will be in the least surprised to discover that any alteration to the chemostasis of the brain will result in interesting neurological phenomena.
Indeed, such is the connection between brain chemistry and neurological phenomena, that I have in my collection, two very interesting scientific papers. The first being:
Visual Image Reconstruction From Human Brain Activity Using A Combination Of Multiscale Local Image Decoders by Yoichi Miyawaki, Hajime Uchida, Okito Yamashita, Masa-aki Sato, Yusuke Morito, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Norihiro Sadato & Yukiyasu Kamitani, Neuron, 60: 915-929 (11th December 2008) [Full paper downloadable from here]
This paper covered the use of fMRI tehnology analysing blood oxygen transport in the brain, to reconstruct still images that had been viewed by test subjects.
The second paper is this one:
Reconstructing Visual Experiences From Brain Activity Evoked By Natural Movies by Shinji Nishimoto, An T. Vu, Thomas Naselarias, Yuval Benjamini, Bin Yu & Jack L. Gallant, Current Biology, 21: 1641-1646 (11th October 2011) [Full paper downloadable from here]
This paper covered the use of similar methods to reconstruct movies people had watched, again using blood oxygen transport data.
If the various assertions being peddled by various supernaturalists and woo merchants were something other than the product of their rectal passages, the above research would not have been possible. On that basis alone, the assertions in question can be safely discarded.
[NOTE: if the above links to the papers don’t work, a Google Scholar search on the paper titles should yield working links.]
I’m not going to hold my breath, anyone noticed how theists love to celebrate anything remotely scientific they perceive in any evidences their belief, in-between rubbishing science, and the facts it accepts as true? Selection bias anyone…
Open your closed heart mun, you know deep down it was a deity. 
You are now guilty of fallacious thinking and an equivocation error. (Near-death is not death.) Think about what you are saying.
I am explaining exactly what happens to you in an NDE. The body shuts down. The body does this naturally to protect the brain in any kind of trauma and most certainly in the NDE. This means: All sensory input from the body stops. This occurs quite naturally in many cases of shock. (Death is when the Brain Stops. No one is getting any experience from death. At least, none that could possibly be evidenced. No brain activity = no experience. Unless of course, you know something about physiology I’m missing.) Anyone can experience the effects of an NDE. Entire cultures have used these sorts of experiences as their religious foundations.
No person with a clinically dead brain can see shit. Seeing is done with the brain. Vision is a vastly complex system involving around 30 areas of the brain.
The brain constructs the world you see, not the eye.
(Note to Self: Preopebly went to uses a speill check before posting!)
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In 2010 I wound up in intensive care after a high risk operation. I knew I was acting weird, but the nurse assured me that everyone that comes through intensive care is off their rockers for the first few days.
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You’re not playing your cards right. Some christians who’ve had NDE’s end up with book and movie deals and cult like followings 
. It’s astounding what a big money making machine it is. You’d need to tweak a few things. Maybe change your age to 5 years old at the time of your NDE, since those seem to be the most profitable type movies. I mean, nothing easier to believe than a toddler 
. And don’t forget your hours long conversations with a lily white Jesus. Yep, I believe you could have a best seller. Hmmm, maybe I should try my hand at writing one. Actually having had a NDE doesn’t really seem necessary considering the target audience.
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Or just fake it like EVERY freaking theist since the beginning of time.
Now be fair, not all of them are faking it, some are flat out crazy/delusional 
. Although faking for attention and/or profit does seem the case with most claiming christianized NDE’s. The favorite claim I’ve heard was a mormon man saying that his NDE had made him clairvoyant/gifted. He was now destined to lead the survivors of the coming apocalypse. He could also see that he and any reasonably attractive female follower had been married in previous lives, so sex now was okey dokey. It would be funny except he’s now on trial for the death of his heavily insured, and not on board with infidelity, spouse.
The best take on what happens after death was in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
Whatever you truly believed would happen is what happens to you.
Believe in Valhalla? It’s eternal feasting and battle for you!
Believe in the abrahamic god thing? Let’s hope you ere good!
Believe in nothing? It’s oblivion for you!
I like it. It makes more sense than most speculations I’ve heard.
Probably not the “best take.” Perhaps the most comforting pre-death assumption however.
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I thought it was the best take on it because it supports my idea that the brain creates comforting illusions at the time of death so the end isn’t overly stressful.
It also backs up my oldest Atheist talking point from childhood when I said that there are so many religions that either all of them were right, or none of them were right. I went with none, but that idea does support the all version.
And, it made me laugh! That’s always a plus.
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