Interesting, but for me the issue was put to rest (so to speak) in a much shorter debate in the early 70s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SIzmWolaFw

Listened to this the other day.

Everyone pretty much ignored the philosopher because he had nothing substantive to say in a debate grounded in fact.

Traumatic brain injury can result in significant personality changes, and I recall reading on occasion that one of these can be a predisposition to religious belief (can't find a source right now).

I wonder if this is the case for the neurosurgeon here as nothing he says really explains why what he perceived wasn't simply imagined reality.

I thought the really straightforward and clear cut rebuttal here from the con side was that people's interpretations of the afterlife always seem to mirror what their religious upbringing would have assumed to be the case.

Also, that of course no revelatory information seeming to confirm the veracity of the experience (say the location of a valuable buried family heirloom) has ever been recorded to occur.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 2:49am PDT - promote requested by RedSky.

*death duh:P

Adding video to channels (Death) - requested by kulpims.