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Revival or Resurrection? 111 percent of the subjects reported that they had been considered dead during the near death experience. * With all kinds of gadgetry at their disposal, if medical experts can pronounce a living person dead, how reliable would be the testimony of an anxious observer who saw Jesus as losing con- sciousness and from this deduced that he had died? Furthermore, after seeing him again, to draw the conclusion that he was revived from death is totally unjustified. * The Phenomenology of Near-Death Experiences, by Bruce Greyson, M. D and Ian Stevenson, M. D. , AM. Psychiatry 137:10, October 1980