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Why is it that people with NDEs always see an afterlife as it's defined by their culture?
The brain is an amazing organ which is quite capable of constructing fantasies (for lack of a better word) under certain conditions.

If you're really serious about this, read some books which deal with it from a psychological viewpoint. There are explanations.

NDEs? Down here in Texas we call that "riding a bicycle".

The problem is how do you design a study to study and confirm the stories?

There are a lot more people who experience nothing under neat death experiences. Those who are revived with stories to tell are the exceptions to the rule. So, if there was an afterlife, why do so few people who come out of near death experiences have such experiences?

If it were real, I'd think it would be far more common as medical knowledge has advanced and mroe peopel come back from near death experiences. It is still a very rare phenomena.

It’s all subjective. Not a shred of empirical, actionable data.
It might be personally powerful and convincing but outside of the individuals brain bubble it’s does not mean shit without the Empiricism to back it up.

Why not? The person was not dead, they were near death. Your brain gets all confused at this state. The body laying wherever it is at this point does not go anywhere. It has what we call an NDE that some use to explain their "after death" experiences. To even go this far you have to invent a "soul" that many think you are given at birth. (The breath of life.) Others use the soul idea to immediately claim they are immortal. This looks like a setup to explain what you want to believe. This is all done without involving ectoplasm like they did years ago. I'm not impressed.

NDE's as reported are all anecdotal. Show me scientifically verifiable information and I will pay attention. There is no "soul", "spirit," or other agent that is apart from our body.

Look up Hindu NDE. Then realize that they both can’t be true. Then conclude the one thing in common with both is the human brain.

Brain farts and oxygen deprivation. With oxygen deprivation, brain cells start to die. If all the brain cells die, including the brain stem then you have brain death which is irreversible. The loss of cognitive functioning is not brain death. If you've gotten really really drunk, you've deprived brain cells of oxygen and killed a few.

I had a non clinical sudden cardiac arrest, complete disruption of breathing and heart function. luckily they were able to get an AED on me within 4 minutes so I had minimal oxygen deprivation. I also had a secondary clinical cardiac arrest prior to getting my ICD installed, but that was only about about a minute.

After both incidents, my cardiologist asked if I had an NDE. Both, the answer was no. After the second he explained that people who tend to have NDE's tend to be people who have faith/belief. He was relieved because people who have NDE's typically will have PTSD afterward due to the conflict of reality and belief.

" Was brain dead for 6 days," medically speaking, once the brain becomes starved of oxygen it begins dying immediately and it cannot regenerate itself unlike the liver, ergo, it is 100% Kaput.
When the brain and body are so badly damaged and oxygen deprivation sets in the brain begins to mis-fire creating entirely false images, etc, etc, thus giving the false impression/s of N.D.E.
Without a regular oxygen supply to it the brain will begin to die within a period of approx. 8-10 minutes and from there there usually is NO coming back.
The 'white light at the end of the tunnel' IS just as much a myth as is God, Jesus, Heaven or Hell.

So what? You're not sure they can be just explained away as lies or brain farts. What does that mean, that there's some supernatural event happening? How do you figure that? Why isn't it just someone almost died? Why is it more than just that?

Just because these incidents cannot be explained in scientific terms at this present time, does not mean that there is not a logical explanation. All it means is that at present the human brain has not been able to work out how and why they happened. Our understanding of inexplicable phenomenon is often attributed to the supernatural, but as future generations become more mentally advanced I believe these seemingly impossible conundrums will be answered scientifically.

If you are asking a question about specific events, please include a link to ensure that we are talking about the same event. That will help everyone involved.

My short answer? Yes, I explain away all NDEs as physical phenomenon of the brain that is oxygen starved or injured.

about your specifics:
The neurologist was not "brain-dead'. From the ABC news article: "Deep in coma, his brain infected so badly only the most primitive parts were working." So it appears he was near death, but not quite there.
[abcnews.go.com]

Just because the man stated he saw / felt something doesn't mean it exists. One can hallucinate, see mirages, and even can see a "white light at the end of a tunnel" when subjected to high-g forces (the Air Force didn't publish all info from some of their G-force studies in the 60s because it seemed to show that seeing a white light at the end of a tunnel, when your brain was starved of oxygen, was a common event. That contra-indicated heavenly events like NDE, and they didn't want to spoil it for the xtians.).

Hell, I have eye floaters and occasionally I'll see "something" or what appears to be a shadow moving - but it is internal to my eye, not in the physical world around me. If people don't know about eye floaters, they could attribute seeing them as ghosts / spirits / sprites, etc.

Here is a study that seems to indicate that NDEs are just your brain "hyperventilating" (my word) just before lights out for good. I hope this is proof enough for you. If not, let's talk.

[independent.co.uk]

Concerning Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor - I don't know what you are asking. She had a stroke, part of her brain died, and she recovered. Not really a NDE.

[oprah.com]

We don't know, therefore god.

I had to think on this a while, and I remembered something that Sam Harris once said somewhat about this. Took me a bit to find it. I only give this clip as a response because he puts it much better than My thoughts. I don't think this is the 'end all' conclusion, since we are always learning more, and more about the brain. But Sam has a Doctorate in Neuro Science, so I'll give him some on this. any way.

There's a region of the brain that if impaired causes people to have out of body experiences. Its function seems to be to help place "you" correctly in space. Doctors can induce OBEs at will by messing with that region. See: [psychologytoday.com]

After an accident when I hit my head and had significant trauma to the rest of me I remember having a mild form of "out of body" experience. I was laying in the hospital and remember looking at my body but just felt disconnected from it. No I wasn't floating on the ceiling or elsewhere but I just had this feeling of being what I can only describe as outside myself. The body I was looking at just did not feel like it was mine. And I was not unconscious, I could have had a conversation if anyone else was around.

I think it was just an extreme form of what you get when you sleep on an arm and wake up and it feels like it could be someone else's. You move it and have no feeling that it is connected to you. Now imagine that for 100% of your body, even your head. While your point of vision is clearly where your head is it doesn't feel like it is your head. It was just weird.

Also after that accident I was rescued by friends who saw what happened and said I was "out" for 40 minutes but for most of that I appeared to be "rebooting". I was answering questions from them but not very lucid. All I remember was a dream-like experience of hearing voices, people looking down at me, no feeling, thinking about stuff - I don't recall what. Then I 'woke' like waking from sleep and was fully aware I was alive and being cut out of my clothes and prepped for a helicopter ride.

It was a truly weird experience but I wouldn't attribute it to anything extraordinary.

Edit: just remembered that up until my early twenties I was hypoglycemic a lot of the time and would frequently pass out. Before actually keeling over I experienced tunnel vision all the way to complete loss of vision, stars, auditory hallucinations, and then often similar "rebooting" phenomena to my accident above. It even happened to me once at a hairdressers in the middle of a haircut. I thought nothing of it but I'm aware that some people have never passed out in their life and those kinds of experiences freak them out or may seem magical or supernatural in some way. No, it's just your brain running low on gas - in this case sugar and oxygen.

I had read (I believe in something Michael Shermer wrote) that aliens and not God or angels were showing up in NDE experiences as aliens became more prominent in our collective psyche.

As for NDE's generally, I'm more inclined to look for alternate explanations than to simply take the accounts as 100% valid as told be the experiencer. For example, the article from Frontiers in Psychiatry. "Fantasy Proneness Correlates With the Intensity of Near-Death Experience".
[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

I have them constantly. It's called "living".

The accounts of seeing dead relatives, seeing what's happening in the world while one is "dead", and so on, are all retrospective (naturally) and thus highly colored by the imagination. Enthusiastic exchanges with fellow believers no doubt feed the confabulated "memories" (as in, "We were all praying at your bedside." "Yes! I saw you!!" turns into "something the person could not have known except through the NDE" ).

What I'm suggesting is that these are basically "false memories", initiated by the brain's chemical imbalance in the near-death state (especially lack of oxygen, possibly also a state of nitrogen narcosis which leads to hallucinations in some cases) and the interpretation of the resulting hallucinatory phenomena into the storylines that the victim subconsciously feels pressured to produce; or in some cases, is explicitly pressured to produce. For example, [en.wikipedia.org] Alex Malarkey publicly retracted his alleged NDE; in fact, he confessed, he never really died.

. . . Fragile isn't it? those small moments that irrevocably alter our life pathway? even stranger is when we try to relate our stories to those around us

. . . ask Michael Shermer :

[michaelshermer.com]

I don't suggest anyone "explain away" things with easy catch-all answers (like 'God did it' ) on either side of the coin. Do a little research and learn about how the brain receives and processes information. There may be a lot of info that you learn that makes those "lies and brain farts" morph into reasonable/plausible explanations. Even then, however, you don't need to close up shop. The object is to avoid ending inquiry with unsupported conclusions - that's what religion does.

Sure you can, researchers put notes around ER rooms that you should be able to see if having an out of body experience. No one ever noticed a single note.

You know how when you nod off and find yourself in a setting with a full cast of characters, each with their own back story and there's an on going dramatic situation that's been going on for awhile and you snap awake and realize you were only out a second or two, that's what an NDE is.

No one, repeat no one can be dead for 6 days and "come back" By dead, I mean no oxygen to the brain.

Could it be a matter of how badly you want to believe? Stories told by those who have had NDE are just stories.

Two comments, this after seventeen that have been put up already:
-We can't explain everything yet. That's how science works. "Verified examples" and other incidences are just things waiting to be explained. We only know a tiny amount about most things. So what?

-When pushed back on, you seem like an awfully angry guy. We don't know certain answers yet, and the comments from the participants represent their views. Calm down and get over it.