Rob Eshman, Moderator:
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.
