Originally Posted by
YesNo
I prefer taking someone's account of their experience more seriously than texts that might have been written by someone who had no experience in the matter but was articulating a theory.
Besides near death experiences one could include shared death experiences, after death communication and out of body experiences that might give some relevant information.
One of the things one can learn from these near death experiences is that anyone can have them. They don't have to be members of a specific religion who promote a specific sacred text. Now, that's good news.