The near-death experience in children: Shades of the prison-house reopening.
The Journal of near-death studies January 1, 1983 Nancy Evans Bush 37 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) in young children are substantially similar in content to those reported by adults, according to a review of seventeen accounts including two still in childhood. This suggests that cultural conditioning—such as education, religious training, social mores, and family traditions—is not a primary determinant of NDE contents, countering the argument that NDEs are merely a culturally conditioned response to a life crisis.