The Near Death Experience (NDE) literature provides a good basis for reasonable, evidence-based belief in the afterlife. NDEs occur across all cultures and share remarkable similarities. They are recorded in literature going back millennia. Research on NDEs has exploded over the past 50 years. The common alternative explanations put forward by skeptics — oxygen deprivation, delirium, imagination, hallucination, temporal lobe malfunction, brain damage, wishful thinking, etc. — have all been dispensed with by careful research. If you’re not acquainted with the literature on NDEs, good places to start include Kenneth Ring’s Heading Towards Omega , Jeffrey Long’s Evidence of the Afterlife , or Pim von Lommel’s Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience . Naturally, NDE literature is almost entirely focused on human survival. Human beings want to know, first and foremost, whether we have an afterlife. Animals tend to be an afterthought, if the...