Good question. I take it that Mellen-Thomas feels that personally it wasn't a near-death experience since he was clinically dead for a period of time.

It sounds like the doctors don't know what else to label it as so they call it that.



Originally posted by zippy-kat
Question, though...
In the article, it's stated, "We do not know how long I was dead, only that she found me thirty minutes before. ... She can verify that I really was dead. It was not a near-death experience."

But at the end it states, "Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in 1982."

What's up with that?