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What Near Death Research Reveals About the Purpose of Life

What happens when we die? Does consciousness remain? What is the purpose of life?

New research into near-death experiences leads to some startling conclusions.

“You have got to tell all the old people so that they won’ be afraid to die!” five-year old Chris told his doctor after he had been resuscitated after drowning.  His father lost control of his car he was driving at night and plunged into the freezing waters of a river near Seattle. As they sunk into icy waters, his mother managed to pull his older brother to safety, but it took another fifteen minutes to rescue Chris. When he was brought to shore, his breathing had stopped and there was no heart beat.

Miraculously doctors managed to resuscitate(v. 使复活、使复苏) Chris. When he woke up, he told them:

“I went into a huge noodle when I died, well it must have been a tunnel because I don’t think noodles have rainbows in them.”

What Chris experienced was a Near Death Experience, or NDE. This is a pattern of events people can experience when come close to death. These are some of the features:
-  feeling comfortable and free of pain
-  a sensation of leaving the body, sometimes being able to see the physical body while floating above it
-  the mind functioning more clearly and more rapidly than usual
-  a sensation of being drawn into a tunnel or darkness
-  a brilliant light, sometimes at the end of the tunnel
-  a sense of overwhelming peace, or absolute, unconditional love

      当我们老去之后，会发生什么？我们还会有知觉吗？那生命的意义又是什么？
      一项临近死亡体验的新调查，向我们揭示了令人惊叹的结论。
     “一个五岁大的男孩，克里斯，当医生将他从溺水中救起时，说道：“您一定要告诉老人们，让他们不要害怕死亡。”事情是这样的。一天夜里，克里斯的父亲正在开车。在西雅图附近的河边，车子突然失控了，连车带人一下子栽进冰冷的水里。正当一家人沉入刺骨的水中时，母亲努力并成功地将克里斯的哥哥从死神边上来了回来，可是等到开始营救克里斯时，已经十五分钟过去了。当他被救上岸时，他已经停止呼吸，连心跳都没有了。
      医生奇迹般地将他从死亡边缘抢救了回来。醒来之后，他说，“当我死了之后，我掉进了一根面条里面。呵呵，不，应该是一个隧道。因为在面条里是看不到彩虹的。”
      克里斯经历的正是一次死亡之旅。然而很多人在临死之前也会有类似的经历。通常，这些经历有着以下一些特征：
      感觉非常舒服，一点疼痛感都没有；
      一种脱离身体的感觉，有时甚至能够看到灵魂漂浮在身体上方；
      思路比平常清晰，反应也比平常快；
      一种被拖进隧道或是黑暗的感觉
      一道很亮的光，通常是在隧道的尽头处
      一种令人窒息的安静之感，或是绝对的无条件的大爱