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I dont know how to insert a link to things i have heard about.
But you are right and i would react as you, this kind of "i heard about" affirmation is weak (furthermore, i dident verify myself the story of those peoples who claimed they were returned changed from NDE).
Everybody want to go to heaven but nobody want to die.
So why people are scared of death (their own death) ?
Very young i was not scared of death, because i strongly believed that if i would have some problem in my body, i would resist so as no to die (that sound simple).
After that, i learned anatomy, and i became more skeptical about this possibility.
Then a bit older, i had some fear of dying, for no reason because i never had any health problem, only because i imagined in some rational thinking that "i could no be" and this appeared to me very scary.
"Not being" give me some "bad sensation" (so something in relation with emotion).
Now that i experienced some NDE, i dont care about any more.
Alive or death, i prefer to be alive of course (the habit perhaps, i like what i have and dont like the change), but i am not scared to just loose my old body.
I think that it is the animal part of our body that is affraid of the death.
Every animal is afraid of death, it is deeply inscribed to his body, like pain, pleasure, and other emotional states.
Beatitude, by "taking things easy", by not having too much of anything, can perhaps help to tame our emotions.
Emotions are bad if they determine our life (here per example if the scare of death hinder us to live).