Atheists, can you think of a plausible way to debunk this experience?

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Atheists, can you think of a plausible way to debunk this experience?

An anecdotal example of evidence that a person's consciousness leaves and returns to their body during an NDE comes from the research of Dr. Melvin Morse. Olga Gearhardt was a 63 year old woman who underwent a heart transplant because of a severe virus that attacked her heart tissue. Her entire family awaited at the hospital during the surgery, except for her son-in-law, who stayed home. The transplant was a success, but at exactly 2:15 am, her new heart stopped beating. It took the frantic transplant team three more hours to revive her. Her family was only told in the morning that her operation was a success, without other details. When they called her son-in-law with the good news, he had his own news to tell. He had already learned about the successful surgery. At exactly 2:15 am, while he was sleeping, he awoke to see his Olga, his mother-in-law, at the foot of his bed. She told him not to worry, that she was going to be alright. She asked him to tell her daughter (his wife). He wrote down the message, and the time of day and then fell asleep. Later on at the hospital, Olga regained consciousness. Her first words were "did you get the message?" She was able to confirm that she left her body during her near-death experience and was able to travel to her son-in-law to communicate to him the message. This anecdotal evidence demonstrates that the near-death experience is a return to consciousness at the point of death, when the brain is dying. Dr. Melvin Morse thoroughly researched Olga's testimony and every detail had objective verification including the scribbled note by the son-in-law.

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One word: anecdote.
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Well, anecdotal evindence is
an_order_of_magnitude's picture
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ThePragmatic's picture
As I understand it, it refers
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Paula Ann McCabe's picture
Anecdotal is information is
SBMontero's picture
@pork222: The problem is that
MCDennis's picture
google it
SBMontero's picture
@CyberLN; Not even that, it's
chimp3's picture
This story is hearsay. It is
Nyarlathotep's picture
A little background on Dr.
Kataclismic's picture
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ThePragmatic's picture
Some info on Dr. Melvin:
chimp3's picture
Now that is a debunk!
MCDennis's picture
You have this ass backward.
Paula Ann McCabe's picture
Nice story dude! Maybe it's
SBMontero's picture
@pork222: But think by
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Ryan Russell's picture
The definition of anecdotal
LogicFTW's picture
Wow, this is the best people
MCDennis's picture
My heart stopped beating last
SecularSonOfABiscuitEater's picture
Like all NDE's this is just a
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CyberLN's picture
All,
LogicFTW's picture
I try to check, resurrected

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