Common guys!!!! You know souls don't exist.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=peace-of-mind-near-death#comments
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661311001550

Near-death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features. The details of what happens in near-death experiences are now known widely—a sense of being dead, a feeling that one's "soul" has left the body, a voyage toward a bright light, and a departure to another reality where love and bliss are all-encompassing.

Approximately 3 percent of the U.S. population says they have had a near-death experience, according to a Gallup poll. Near-death experiences are reported across cultures, with written records of them dating back to ancient Greece. Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death—one study of 58 patients who recounted near-death experiences found 30 were not actually in danger of dying, although most of them thought they were.

Recently, a host of studies has revealed potential underpinnings for all the elements of such experiences. "Many of the phenomena associated with near-death experiences can be biologically explained," says neuroscientist Dean Mobbs, at the University of Cambridge's Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Mobbs and Caroline Watt at the University of Edinburgh detailed this research online August 17 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

For instance, the feeling of being dead is not limited to near-death experiences—patients with Cotard or "walking corpse" syndrome hold the delusional belief that they are deceased. This disorder has occurred following trauma, such as during advanced stages of typhoid and multiple sclerosis, and has been linked with brain regions such as the parietal cortex and the prefrontal cortex—"the parietal cortex is typically involved in attentional processes, and the prefrontal cortex is involved in delusions observed in psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia," Mobbs explains. Although the mechanism behind the syndrome remains unknown, one possible explanation is that patients are trying to make sense of the strange experiences they are having.

Out-of-body experiences are also now known to be common during interrupted sleep patterns that immediately precede sleeping or waking. For instance, sleep paralysis, or the experience of feeling paralyzed while still aware of the outside world, is reported in up to 40 percent of all people and is linked with vivid dreamlike hallucinations that can result in the sensation of floating above one's body. A 2005 study found that out-of-body experiences can be artificially triggered by stimulating the right temporoparietal junction in the brain, suggesting that confusion regarding sensory information can radically alter how one experiences one's body.

A variety of explanations might also account for reports by those dying of meeting the deceased. Parkinson's disease patients, for example, have reported visions of ghosts, even monsters. The explanation? Parkinson's involves abnormal functioning of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that can evoke hallucinations. And when it comes to the common experience of reliving moments from one's life, one culprit might be the locus coeruleus, a midbrain region that releases noradrenaline, a stress hormone one would expect to be released in high levels during trauma. The locus coeruleus is highly connected with brain regions that mediate emotion and memory, such as the amygdala and hypothalamus.

In addition, research now shows that a number of medicinal and recreational drugs can mirror the euphoria often felt in near-death experiences, such as the anesthetic ketamine, which can also trigger out-of-body experiences and hallucinations. Ketamine affects the brain's opioid system, which can naturally become active even without drugs when animals are under attack, suggesting trauma might set off this aspect of near-death experiences, Mobbs explains

Come on, martian!! You do know the soul does exist.

Jenwitemi:

Come on, martian!! You do know the soul does exist.

Souls of what? Ants, cats, lions, dogs, baboons, bacteria or flies?. . . .

All living things have souls. All of them. From unicellular organisms to the most complex of the multicellular organisms.

mazaje:

Souls of what? Ants, cats, lions, dogs, baboons, bacteria or flies?. . . .

^^

Really?. . . .Your evidence that a bacterium has a soul is

Jenwitemi:

All living things have souls. All of them. From unicellular organisms to the most complex of the multicellular organisms.

lmaooo!

mazaje:

^^

Really?. . . .Your evidence that bacteria has a soul is

i wonda where heaven bacteria is 

Jenwitemi:

All living things have souls. All of them. From unicellular organisms to the most complex of the multicellular organisms.

Bros you funny small, So mosquitoes, fly and fish have souls too.

lepasharon:

i wonda where heaven bacteria is 

In the cesspit. Ask Jenwitemi.

cultey:

Only humans have souls!

Wrong! My leprechaun has a soul too.

Jokers What do you think God feeds on - Souls f'course that's why he needs so many clean ones not the atheist souls that will cause diarrhea

Strangely, there is this thing that a lot of folks must have heard about.

In its general form it goes like this; you discuss with a loved one or a loved one comes to meet you and then later departs from you. You may even see this person off, wave goodbye and all. Then you go back and continue your life. Shortly after, news comes to you that this person died yesterday. "It cant be" you proclaim, "he/she visited me today and I just saw him/her off less than an hour ago".
In other words, you have had full and meaningful interaction with a person who has been confirmed dead. In some cases, the person has even been buried.

I honestly do not believe these stories and I wonder why they are so rampant.

@voltron,pls watch what you say.Never speak such careless words against your creator.So he created you in order to feed on your soul abi?
GOD is indeed merciful!