Culture and the Near-Death Experience: Comments on Keith Augustine's "Pychophysiological and cultural correlates undermining a survivalist interpretation of near-death experiences"

This paper is a sociological commentary on the leading paper by Keith Augustine. It discusses the relationship between social expectations and culture as well as extending the discussion about the possibility that near-death experiences may not be a singular entity. I suggest there are sound grounds for developing a typology of experiences that have different and or overlapping causes and phenomenology.