Take experience seriously. Keep the inference honest.

Start with the question a study actually asks.

Prospective resuscitation studies, retrospective accounts, research scales, physiological observations, and explanatory models are distinct types of evidence. An experience-content score classifies what someone reports; it does not measure honesty or establish heaven.

Cardiac arrest, coma, absence of detected activity, and irreversible death are not interchangeable. A resuscitated patient’s recollection alone does not establish when the experience occurred.

AWARE II: outcomes belong together

The published abstract reports 567 in-hospital cardiac arrests, 53 survivors, and 28 completed interviews. Six interviewees reported a transcendent recalled experience of death; no participant identified the visual target, while one identified an auditory stimulus.

Scales are not truth scores.

The Greyson scale and NDE-C scale offer approaches to classifying reported experience. Instrument version, administration, and human review matter. A score derived informally from a book is not equivalent to a research-administered result and should not be presented as one.

Mechanisms and counterarguments

Brain activity studies investigate physiological processes relevant to proposed mechanisms. Neural findings alone do not reveal the contents of a reported experience. The NEPTUNE model, its published critique, and its authors’ reply belong together: a model is not a settled explanation of every account.

A possible natural mechanism does not automatically resolve every observation, and an unresolved observation does not establish a particular theological conclusion. Arguments should state what would support them and what could challenge them.

What a responsible review includes

Christian, non-Christian, ambiguous, distressing, and contrary reports must be treated within a stated scope. Self-selected archive collections are not population samples. Ten retellings of one event remain one reported event, not ten independent confirmations.

This initial library has not completed a systematic review or audited all external links and medical records. Its register preserves discovery and rights notes. Full-text permissions, study appraisal, and independent editorial review remain separate work.