Most NDErs report supernormal consciousness at the time of their NDEs. Considering NDEs from both a medical perspective and logically, it should not be possible for unconscious people to often report highly lucid experiences that are clear and logically structured. Near-death experiences occur at a time when the person is so physically compromised that they are typically unconscious, comatose, or clinically dead. Lucid, organized experiences while unconscious, comatose, or clinically dead An investigation of the NDEs shared with NDERF led to nine lines of evidence suggesting the reality of NDE. NDEs included for study were single NDE accounts, shared in English, and were shared by the individual who personally had the NDE. Sequentially shared NDEs from the NDERF website were studied. 4 All experiences shared with the NDERF website are reviewed. Extensive prior studies found that an Internet survey has validity that is equivalent to traditional pencil-and-paper survey. The NDERF website has a form allowing near-death experiencers to share a detailed narrative of their experiences, and includes a detailed questionnaire. At the current time there are over 3,700 NDEs posted on the NDERF website, which is by far the largest collection of publicly accessible NDE accounts in the world.
The NDERF website has consistently been at or near the top of websites listed from a Google search for the term “near-death experiences.” This prominence of the NDERF website provided a unique opportunity to conduct a large-scale study of NDEs, including NDEs from around the world. Portions of the NDERF website, including the NDE questionnaire, have been posted in over 20 different languages.
Nearly all NDErs allow their experiences to be posted on the NDERF website. It is NDERF policy that all NDE accounts shared with NDERF are posted on the website if the NDErs give permission to do so. In 1998, a website called the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF, ) was established to conduct NDE research and to be a public service. 3 The NDE Scale asks 16 questions about the NDE content and is the most validated scale to help distinguish NDEs from other types of experiences. For an experience to be classified as an NDE, there had to be a score of seven or above on the NDE Scale. Also, the experience had to be reasonably lucid, which excluded fragmentary or brief disorganized memories. The “experience” component of an NDE had to occur when they were near death. Near-death experiencers (NDErs) included in my investigations were generally unconscious and may have required cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Individuals were considered to be “near-death” if they were so physically compromised that if their condition did not improve they would be expected to irreversibly die. For my retrospective investigations, an NDE was required to have both a near-death and experience component.
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Definitions of NDE with some variability have been used throughout the 35 plus years that NDE has been the subject of scholarly investigation. There is no uniformly accepted definition of near-death experience.