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You're listening to Episode 27 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the mystery of near-death experiences.

I'm Don Bettenelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin.

Hi Jimmy, how do you do?

We'd like to get right into this episode and really get into this topic,

which many of you when you're going to do it have the express of interest in.

So, because it's such a fascinating idea, what is it like to die?

What happens at the moment of our death?

Not just after death, like in heaven or where our judgment or that sort of thing.

But when we die, and some people have claimed to have experienced death and to have come back to talk

about it, some people have even been clinically dead in hospital, but when they were resuscitated,

they reported experiences like being out of their body, seeing their body floating above

their body in an operating room or moving through a tunnel and seeing the light at the end of the

tunnel or encountering beings of light. And all of this has been called into the umbrella of

near-death experiences or NDEs. And so that's what we're going to talk about today on

Jimmy Akin's mysterious world. So Jimmy, what is it that is claimed about near-death experience?

Well, the claim is that when people die, they have NDEs with a common set of experiences,

commonly reported experiences, including waking up and in a room looks kind of like an office,

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