Comparison Of Near Death Experiences

After surviving a life-threatening experience, many people report an extraordinary experience. Due to the growth of technology and the increased research of resurrection, near death experiences are becoming more common. Each person’s experience during a near death experience may be different though similarities have been drawn between the content of near death experiences and the effect on patients. This could be due to “the subjective nature and absence of a frame of reference for this experienced lead to individual, cultural, and religious factors determining the vocabulary used to describe and interpret the experience” ( Van Lommel et al 2001). Near death experiences have been reported in circumstances such as cardiac arrest, shock in loss of blood, near drowning, attempted suicide, and apnea. Though near death experiences are most often reported after situations where death was unavoidable;
Several theories have developed for the etiology of near death experiences; physiological changes in the brain, psychological reaction to approaching death, or a combination of such reaction and anoxia, or it could be lined to changing states of consciousness. In each religion they have a different way to explain near death experiences, for the most part it is parallel to the religions own claim of what happens after death. Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity describe life after death in different ways, therefore they describe near death experiences differently. Each of these religions follows their beliefs on reincarnation or the idea of heaven to describe the events that occur during a near death experience. In Buddhism near death experiences have played a key role in both the Tibetan and Japanese traditions. The near death experiences explained in Buddhist traditions are parallel with those in the writings of the Bardo Thodol (the Tibetan Book of the Dead). Descriptions of near death experiences follow closely to what is stated in the Tibetan Book