The picture and the quotations are my latest sources on the topic. Neuroscientists tell their part of the story about the death experience or, more specifically, the brain death.

Doctor Laureys heads the Coma Science Group at the university hospital in the city of Liege.  NDEs feel “even more real than real,” Laureys said. It’s this sparkling clarity and living color of the experience, which many have when they lose consciousness, that he and his team have researched. His hypothesis is that near-death experiences originate in human physiology. “It is this dysfunctional brain that produces these phenomena,” he said