Discussion»Questions»Religion and Spirituality» When folks die, they supposedly "move towards a big light". Does this mean that when someone dies, they are instantly reincarnated as a moth
If you are still breathing, you haven't died yet. So anybody who is able to talk about their experience has not experienced death. Just the fact they are talking proves they don't know what they are talking about.
So this "big light" of which you speak must be some different sort of experience, perhaps loss of blood pressure to the brain, perhaps some effect that has not been studied. Lots of people have studied death and they all agree on one thing: if a person is talking, they have never died.
Actually, there have been studies of oxygen deprivation to the brain, and the people report the same ... hallucinations ... that people who have "died" report seeing. A bright light. Or even seeing long-dead loved ones.
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward because all memory of them is forgotten." (Eclesiastes 9:5)
Even Jesus got frustrated, and occasionally hostile. He once called his best friend "Satan", which was as nasty an insult a first-century Palestinian Jew could hurl at another.
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