I've never been in that neighborhood before. Should I ever venture in for a visit (...and, if I am permitted to leave), I will surely let you know.

Alive?

They're great

more concerned with near life experiences.

Lucky.

Death is never instant. The synapses of your brain are still firing even after your brain has shut down the rest of your body.

They're risky but I've had 5 and I'm 19 so I guess I'd say they're not too bad.
I wouldn't want to repeat them but with the line of work that I'm going into where people can die in the hundreds and local environments can be decimated by a single mistake. I hope I don't have any.

Also for me anyway, the people around me were more scared and sad about me possibly dying than I was. I was literally the calmest person in the hospital when they diagnosed me. 1 day later I was still alive.

Been there, done that, was nothing notable about it.

I quite like the ' little death' experience .

Ive heard of people having negative experiences????

Anecdotes

Personally, I try to avoid them. Under pressure, I'd have to agree with Tjall.

To add to, when I was 8 years old, I saw a cloud that looked to me, just like those Christmas card angels, flying along, skirts flowing behind them, blowing a straight horn. I thought it was cool so I told my teacher. Her reply has stuck with me for 59 years. She said that we see things (where they don't exist, like in clouds) that we want to see, things that mean something to us. (Pretty enlightened for 1959) Being a child, living with my devout granny, who took me to church every week, it makes sense I would see an angel. I never saw another, although I've seen a lot of horses and dogs over the years.

I think NDEs may be similar, in an oxygen starved state your mind, which "knows" you are dying but not that you will survive, calls up the things that will comfort you, like visions of your dead loved ones, of pearly gates and celestial beings. If you died, you would have gone with calm rather than panic because you believed those wondrous things were awaiting you. Unfortunately, survivors often awake after a NDE convinced they REALLY saw God. Notice, when this happens their description of God is typically very consistent with the WASP version, old, white man with long white hair and beard. Basically Santa Claus without the belly.

lucky

They can be pretty reliably induced. Go ride in a centrifuge until you pass out from the thing force and you've got a good chance of experiencing it. Not everyone does, but it's pretty common. Pretty classic "symptoms." This can be repeated again and again. And in this case we know the only "problem" is low blood pressure to brain.

I doubt it matters to the brain much whether a lack of blood is caused by centrifuge or a heart attack or shock (for instance). It's hard for me to get too excited about hearing nearly indentical stories coming from survivers of a major medical incidents. Why should it have any more significance?

Meh. Every day is a near death experience.