A boolean condition. Or one side of it at least. Though what counts as the line keeps shifting further in death's direction with medical science.
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Rob Eshman: One of the most common tropes is the near-death experience. Over the last three decades, there have been 40 studies of some-3400 near-death experiences and they've been published in American psychological journals, and Barbera Haggerty did a book on this called "The Fingerprints of God", where she interviewed a lot of the people who did these studies that were published in peer-reviewed journals, and a lot of the people she interviewed said they cannot help but think, after investigating these in a scientific way, that they point to something beyond this life.
Christopher Hitchens: I would say that's wrong by definition, because it's a near-death experience. It means you didn't die. If someone is reported dead on Tuesday and you see them on Friday, the obvious conclusion is that the initial report was mistaken. We have no reason to believe otherwise.
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