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End of Life Issues

pbmus

(12,444 posts) Tue Jan 2, 2018, 07:20 PM Jan 2018

Brain surgeon claims to have experienced life after death [View all]

The question of where we go after we have died has been one of humanity's greatest mysteries for centuries.

One man who claims to know the answer or at least has an inclination of what might happen is the brain surgeon, Dr Eben Alexander.

In 2008, Alexander fell into a week-long coma and has documented what he can remember from this event in a new book called Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Heart of Consciousness.

In the book Alexander claims to have experienced a sensation that felt like he was ascending to the heavens or something of that equivalent.

https://www.indy100.com/article/brain-surgeon-dr-eben-alexander-life-after-death-experience-coma-heaven-afterlife-8103361?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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Brain surgeon claims to have experienced life after death [View all] pbmus Jan 2018 OP

It's all in his mind underpants Jan 2018 #1

Lol pbmus Jan 2018 #3

except of course that he didn't die so he didn't experience life after death. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #2

Probably a really spectacular hallucination caused by the disease's effects The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #4

Probably not...The man is a neurosurgeon.. whathehell Jan 2018 #9

Or especially since someone would pay him to write a book marybourg Jan 2018 #17

.. Someone would pay YOU to expose him if that's what actually whathehell Jan 2018 #21

Are you his publicist? marybourg Jan 2018 #24

In your dreams.. whathehell Jan 2018 #25

If he was in a coma, wouldn't that just be a dream? nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #5

He wasn't in a comma...He was clinically dead. n/t whathehell Jan 2018 #7

I don't see that in the article. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #8

You'd need to read his explanation... He's a neurosurgeon, I'm not, but whathehell Jan 2018 #10

"He was suffering from a brain infection [...], which left him at two percent Hav Jan 2018 #11

I don't expect anything.. whathehell Jan 2018 #15

When you are in the process of recovery after your brain was in the shitter, Hav Jan 2018 #18

Um, It depends on how deeply invested you are in NOT believing whathehell Jan 2018 #19

Ben Carson is also a neurosurgeon... Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #13

He:s a retired neurosurgeon whathehell Jan 2018 #14

Pyramids were used to store grain isn't very political. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #16

He's a fundamentalist, I believe.. whathehell Jan 2018 #20

No, but if you're using someone's title (Neurosurgeon) as some sort of authoritative source, Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #23

What "actual proof"? whathehell Jan 2018 #27

Proof of an afterlife, the subject at hand. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #28

Yes, I understand whathehell Jan 2018 #29

Anecdotal evidence is unreliable 99% of the time. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #30

I'll need more than your word for that percentage, I'm afraid. n/t whathehell Jan 2018 #31

those are not mutually exclusive properties. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #32

Whatever whathehell Jan 2018 #33

The whatever is critical to the claim. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #34

Uh huh. whathehell Jan 2018 #35

Alexander is yet another spiritualist grifter. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #36

THANK YOU! Lucid Dreamer Jan 2022 #39

Most Likely The River Jan 2018 #6

I've experienced death. safeinOhio Jan 2018 #12

That is the experience of some.. whathehell Jan 2018 #22

I once heard that only atheists go to heaven. nt Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #26

Anita Moorjani claims a similar experience. The_jackalope Jan 2018 #37

I have experienced spirits. Some people known to me. Three were cats. demigoddess Oct 2021 #38