To me the accounts I have read and people I have talked to lead me to believe that NDE’s are neither proof nor evidence of life after death. Those who accept them fail to account for the cultural variations in the reports. The Indian reports of NDE’s report a bureaucrat telling the “decedent” there has been a mistake in the paperwork and he must return. That is quite different from the being of “light” that many Westerners report. Then there are people who report they experienced NOTHING. Just black NOTHING!
If you have ever read descriptions of Hell, you would find that not everyone experiences the exact same things there. Not everyone has the same punishments, it is determined by what they’ve done while in the body.
So there are some people who account for Hell that actually saw ‘the pit’ as it is described, and felt heat, pain, etc. But Hell is also described for some as being cast into ‘outer darkness’.
So an Indian’s description of what they experienced as ‘blackness’ could very well be what awaits him there.
After all Hell is eternal separation from God. There are varying degrees of that separation, and we know there are varying degrees of punishment that people have earned for themselves that they now will be paying for, as they decided not to believe that Jesus loved them and had already paid for their sins.