I need to vent....

[Mean Mister Mustard]

How does a lack of oxygen to the brain explain similar scenarios in which people hold conversations with deceased family members? Keep in mind that these are new conversations and not "flashbacks" where people are re-living past encounters with the deceased. And also, why are the conversations taking place with dead people and not with anyone else? Supposedly the brain is decaying and going into overdrive. Does it still have enough capacity to know that the organism is dying and thus it chooses to recall the images of dead relatives?

There's also the book "DMT The Spirit Molecule" which states that NDE's are caused by a release of the powerful psychedelic Dimethyltryptamine. Now, as our very own Snoop could tell us, sometimes by ingesting Ayahuasca, which contains DMT, some people do see family members and feel as if they are going to die. NDE's however, differ in that many who have almost passed on to the other side claim that they felt as if the light was communicating with them and that often it tells them that their time has not yet come and then sends them back on their way. Why doesn't this happen when ingesting psychedelics? Also, if DMT is the culprit of NDE's, why do the effects disappear when the person is shot back into their bodies and they are revived?

These are just a few questions that leave me unconvinced that NDE's are merely the result of oxygen deprivation or chemicals. To reiterate the point, none of us know what happens after death. The hard material reductionist view is probably the safest one to take, but its explanation of NDE's leaves some unanswered questions which prevent us from fully accepting it as THE TRUTH.