AIBU that not much is talked about NDE and it's all hush hush but probably many more people believe it than want to admit to?

[Ruabelieber]

Probably for fear of being thought of as nuts!
Got this article via a friend and the more I hear / read the more I believe it..
But if I was to admit this in RL people would think I am bonkers?

www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/04/dying-near-death-experiences/

Sara107 that was weird reading that, my mother told me my father had that exact same experience. A few weeks later he was in hospital and died. When my mother spoke to the doctor about what had happened she said it was exactly like his dream. He had been in bad health and in and out of hospitals for about 7 years so I don't know if he had seen similar things happen when he was a patient. She said in a way she felt it had prepared her for what happened.

I think it's quite valid in the way that horoscopes are

So glad the OP has bowed out. Such an unpleasant person who didn't have the decency to admit they were factually wrong.

Don't you love it when people completely miss the point of a thread, attack the OP then are surprised they leave the thread and even after they have gone they feel the need to still comment. Wow!
Probably OP just wanted to be indulged with stories of NDEs... if you don't 'believe ' you can ignore thread...
And OP probably has a life!

I believe people should be embarassed about believing in woo. Same as believing elvis is alive and the world is flat.

At best, no evidence supports your position, at worst, evidence contradicts your position.

To say you believe this stuff means you pay a price in other peoples opinion of you

So Araiwa all people who believe in Christmas/ religion and posters on MN who have on other threads admitted to believing in this ... all need to feel embarrassed?
Interesting view when you think that your view should be the only view....

Are there any ‘woo’ phenomenon that are still largely unexplained?

I love reading about this stuff/get freaked out in equal measure.

Camomila, I wonder as well.
This makes interesting reading:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/11345-top-ten-unexplained-phenomena.html

I would be embarassed, yes

But some people strangely seem proud that they believe in stuff that there is no evidence for or contradictory evidence.

Fair enough araiwa... you would feel embarrassed....
many people don't though...
We can all live together in armony

If they believe why would they be embarrassed?

So Araiwa all people who believe in Christmas... all need to feel embarrassed?

Christmas exists, one doesn't need to "believe" in it!

Araiwa is correct. Why would you be embarrassed about believing in woo unless you knew it was silly? You wouldn't be, if you actually thought it was a perfectly reasonable thing to believe in, would you?

Well Colombus was called crazy because he thought the world was round

No he wasn't. By 1492, it was widely accepted that the world was round, and been since about the 3rd century BC.

Interesting ... I believe there is something after life because I like the idea and because nobody has been ever been able to confirm scientifically that nothing exists before or after. I mean even the Big Bang theory ... how did it all come together before that?
And I don't feel embarrassed by it in fact I talk openly about it to like minded people.

And to the posters on this thread who are all out there ultra sure it's not true ... that is fine by me too. We don't think alike and this is what makes us a democracy with the freedom to express your opinion or believes.
Nobody I know has ever been arrested for believing in woo!

I believe that one day I'm going to meet Keanu Reeves and he's going to fall madly in love with me and we're going to live happily ever after, because I like the idea and because no one has proved scientifically that it won't happen.

We evolved from apes, fossil evidence shows it happened incredibly gradually over millions of years.
For those who believe in an afterlife - any ideas at what point in our evolution we were allowed to have a life after death?

Medeci the only reasonable argument for those who believe in an afterlife would be that there was always an afterlife. So our amoebic ancestors in the primordial soup must have had one, and then all animals.

I'm quite looking forward to meeting a few neanderthals myself after I pass. They've always fascinated me.

Why does no-one ever report seeing the ghost of an australopithicus individual? No, it's always dear departed granny or a grey victorian lady, isn't it?

Yes, honey and why do they appear just as they do (e.g. why can't grandma be young again in the afterlife), and in those particular clothes?
Actually, how is it possible for ghosts to wear clothes? They must be special spirit clothes