Originally Posted by
Halfcentaur
My father seemed to have been made a non believer by his own near death experience he went through after hitting a tree on his motorcycle going 90 mph without a helmet. He was in a coma for 3 days and dead for something like 3 minutes on the table.
He seemed to think most of the experience was a result of random mental stimuli and memory. God seemed like a jolly male authority figure that was aloof and alien, which he said seemed a lot like Santa Claus to him as an archetype.
After my father had his first heart attack he was totally unconscious and remembered nothing. No light to walk into no dead people greeting him. Nothing. He had a friend who was an atheist and he often said. "Maybe Jack Fink is right" Maybe nothing happens afer we die".
He had two more heart attacks and the third one killed him. I hated to see him suffer so but there was nothing to be done for him.