Well, even just the practice of performing prospective cohort studies is an improvement over collecting anecdotes. And interviewing subjects about their recollections before the subjects receive any feedback would be another step forward. Sartori managed to accomplish this in her study. I don't think Parnia was able to...the interview of the remarkable NDE/OBE case was described as taking place a year after the event and long after the various players had identified themselves to the subject.There may be many variables to NDEs, but *experiments* work best by excluding as many as possible, or by holding them constant in favor of one. If this cannot be done, it becomes difficult to draw conclusions that are (scientifically) worthwhile. Hence the need for what the percipient might in principle view or hear to be a controlled circumstance. Kudos to aware for at least trying to do this. it was never going to be an easy gig.
Again, if there is a better *controllable* test of the psi-claim in NDEs, I'd like to here what people think that would be.
Linda