Definitions for near-death experience
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
near′-death` expe′rience(n.)
any experience involving a vision, as of the afterlife, reported by a resuscitated person.
Category: Parapsychology
Princeton's WordNet
near-death experience(noun)
the experience of being close to death but surviving
Wiktionary
near-death experience(Noun)
A sensation of detachment from one's body, the presence of a tunnel of light, the apparent viewing of one's own body from on high, and similar manifestations, experienced by people whose heart and brain have temporarily ceased to function
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