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Survivorship bias gonna' bite him in the ass HARD.
Every single person who ever lived could use this logic and they'd never see it disproven.
I dunno', quite a few people are aware that they're dying before they die.
Oh I do know about that, I've had a near death experience myself, your body/brain has an uncanny sense that says "you are dangling over the precipice right now."
I just mean that until it actually happens, there is no true confirmation, and after, you can't report back, that's why it's called a mystery.
In fact from the way that person is talking it sounds like they may have had such an experience, and maybe now they're doubting that it's real.
Did the experience leave you any belief in the afterlife
Not by itself no, but it was a vector to be indoctrinated into a strong belief in a christian afterlife at a very young age.
I no longer hold any of those beliefs. I now think that existence ex-nihilo and creation by something outside of the natural universe are two equally absurd possibilities, and science is fundamentally incapable of resolving that question.
I have certainly had odd, even otherworldly experiences, but I couldn't say what any of them meant or if they mean anything at all. I am deeply suspicious of anyone that claims to have the answers.