Nevermind : when one really does cross the "boundary " between life and death , one does not come back .
Death does not play games : it is deadly serious . lol
When your time comes to die , you don't get a sec more or less to live .
Typoz is right here - this is a red herring that Skeptics often use, and even Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted a few months ago that NDE's were not actual death since everyone "returns".
What is being done here is a sleight of hand with defining "death". For example, suppose there is a fence with a gate, and two of us were walking toward that fence, and both of us went through the gate. One of us decided to keep going, and the other one decided to return back through the gate. Skeptics claim the person who returned,
did not go through the gate because that person returned while the other did not.
For all we know, someone who has an NDE may actually have
died. Just because they came back does not scientifically establish that they didn't actually die. For all we know right now scientifically,
those who do come back, and those who don't - may have
identical experiences which are indeed death or the process of dying without having taken the final step. That is to say, Skeptics currently have no scientific basis to assume that someone who doesn't come back, does not have the same experience as an NDE'r who does come back, so they cannot make the erroneous claim that death (or the process of death) is not involved in one case and not the other. It is an illogical red herring.
But besides the logical fallacy Skeptics make, there is actually some empirical evidence that does indicate to some degree that
identical experiences do occur with NDE'rs and those who die and do not return. Moody recently wrote a book where he reported upon
Shared Death Experiences where there are now some corroborated accounts where people present while a person is dying, have reported sharing well-known NDE like experiences with the person dying at the death-bed - and
the person dies and does not come back. Which appears to preliminarily indicate that death experiences of those who do come back are
identical with those who don't come back.
SDE's though have not been scientifically investigated as thoroughly as NDE's - so the evidence is still small, and will need more empirical work. But my guess is, additional studies will also confirm Moody's recent publication. There is also some older publications by the SPR regarding Death-Bed Visions (Barrett?) and Osis & Haraldsson's work "At the Hour of Death", which also provide some indications that those who actually die, have similar transpersonal experiences -witnessed by bedside friends, family or medical professionals.
Skeptics because of their a priori bias, do not really take any of the accounts seriously. They spend most of their time and intelligence attempting to come up with materialistic explanations for NDEs, or arguing methodologies used were wrong, none of which has proven to possess any
reasonable scientific credibility to date.
My Best,
Bertha