First and foremost, let's respect Alan Warren's work as the lead singer of the 90's iconic rock group, The Smashing Pumpkins. Secondly, let's respect the fact that he died and didn't see shit. Maybe a lot of people die and don't see shit at all, then live to tell about it. This is where things become very interesting to me. As he said, he was dead, didn't have any memory of any experience when he was dead, but the next thing he knew, he was awake! I think this is something akin to those who dream, and those who do not remember their dreams. On a deeper level, it could be something else altogether different. We need to ask more difficult questions about what consciousness is. Often, the assumption is made that one can die and no longer be conscious. We can observe others in a state that we call "unconscious," but they cannot observe themselves in such a state. In affect, we project this idea of consciousness outside of the observer, when in all honesty, it cannot ever be proven to exist outside of you, whether you were dead for 15 minutes or one million years. This is hard to grasp, but in reality, you cannot become without consciousness. Their are a myriad of descriptions.....blackness, lights out, etc. All of those descriptions are aspects of consciousness. Humanity has a way to go, but once we realize the mundane is not as mundane as we thought it was, e.g., waking and sleeping life, then another level is obtained.