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As reports of a peaceful and joyful afterlife keep coming in, we’ll start to see the fallout; how some ideas that were considered to be beyond question just a few years ago will come to be reconsidered and then rejected. One casualty of the reality of near death experiences will be atheism. Atheism is the absence of a belief in God. Atheists believe in the physical reality of our existence in this world and reject the idea of an afterlife. Many self-proclaimed atheists have

Much has been written about the science of near death experiences, much of it beside the point. As a social scientist I look first to the stories of near-death experiences that have been collected by researchers. I observe that there are more than 5,000 standardized interviews with people who report a near-death experiences, most from North America but also many from all over the world. A standardized interview schedule is important because it allows for the comparison of cas