We offer what the public wants to hear. The revelatory power of the near-death phenomenon cuts too close. The public's comfort zone is breached. And that's just a few of them. To this end, I want to say a few more things about therapy and what I have noticed with adult versus child experiencers.
Adults deal with changes afterward.
Children deal with the strangeness that the world around them doesn't match what they know. They are challenged to recognize the source of their differentness and accept its credibility. What they encountered in their near-death episode is so real that it becomes their entire world. Comparisons have little if any value. I found that children were six times more likely to repress what happened to them than were adults.