Indeed, defining death as a state one can never return from is operationally contingent; it is arbitrary and ignores the physiology—the science—of the process. So I am comfortable with the term RED.
But
I diverge. The point of this essay is a common feature of REDs and ‘Out
of Body Experiences’ (OBEs) that have always stricken me as exceedingly
odd: the claim by experiencers that they could perceive the
colloquially physical world around them—from a mildly elevated,
bird’s-eye perspective—during the period of, e.g., cardiac arrest, as if
they still had working eyes and ears. This seems to violate logic, as
evolution required hundreds of millions of years of painstaking adaption
to come up with retinas and eardrums...<<<Read More>>>....
