BTW, i find these folks classifying their "experience" as death to cheapen the loss of people who have actually died.
I don't get your beef.
Leaving semantics and quibbles aside for the moment: Do you think that if someone if resucitated from a death-type event, that it is a
completely different happenstance than that which occurs when someone stays dead?
Concrete example: Let's say that at
exactly the same time, I succumb to cancer and you are smashed up in a car-wreck. Our lines go flat at exactly the same moment... and for the first 5-10 minutes after the line goes flat, our experiences are relatively similar, but then the medics are successful with their heart-paddles on you, whereas my family is still saying "Thank God he's not suffering any more".
Do you think you were any less "dead" simply because you didn't
stay dead?
Or are you merely trying to distinguish permanent death from temporary death ... or "near-death" if you prefer?
To me, I would consider a bullet going through your torso - yet miraculously missing all vital organs - to be a "Near Death" experience, i.e. nothing death-like actually happened, but came pretty ####in' close.