Seeing bright light after someone dies?

Answer 1

After Death, there is nothing; non-existence. The Bible says at Ecclesiastes 9:5-6: "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun". This is why a Resurrection of "the righteous and the unrighteous" is necessary for the dead to see, hear or feel anything again. (Acts 24:15) In the Bible account concerning Lazarus' (John 11:1-44), we are told that Lazarus had been dead and buried for four days when he was resurrected by Jesus; his sister said: "Lord, by now, he must smell". (vs.39) If Lazarus had been resurrected from either Heaven or a 'fiery Hell', surely he would have mentioned if he had seen or heard ANYTHING during the time he was dead? Wouldn't you, if you were resurrected, mention if you had seen or heard anything while you had been dead? Lazarus had been a dead, non-existent, life-less body. Persons who have been 'resucitated' from a 'near-death experience' recall seeing a "bright light". This 'bright light" was usually the bright lights in a hospital setting, or the imaginings of an oxygen-starved or chemically altered brain, or wishful thinking, but it can also be a demonically-caused delusion. We all look forward to the Resurrection to reverse the "non-existence"of Death.

"Kenneth Ring (1980) subdivided the NDE (Near Death Experience) on a 5 stage continuum:

1. feelings of peace and contentment,
2. a sense of detachment from the body,
3. entering a transitional world of darkness (rapid movement through a long dark tunnel: "the tunnel experience"),
4. emerging into bright light, and
5. "entering the light".

Ring stated, however, that 60% experienced stage 1, but only 10% experienced stage 5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience

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The bright light occurs just before death while the occipital lobe of the brain is still receptive. During death there is no consciousness whatsoever. Upon returning from being dead, there are, at times, beams of light sensed by the brain recovering from an inactive state, followed by a field of vision in black and white, with color returning in a matter of seconds.