The suggestion, of course, is that in this state one may possess a sense of non-local visual consciousness, that allows the experiencer to later identify and describe objects and events that ordinary visual senses would not allow. Data from laboratory studies of OBEs, how ever, overcome that objection, as well as provide more reliable indices in a controlled environment. Since NDE studies have been ongoing for many years, and since this is such an obvious suggestion, I am sure OBE studies have been done. I suspect that since I have not yet read of such studies, the results were not very positive. Don't jump to conclusions about which aspect of the near-death experience is more verifiable or more important than another, as you would be making a judgment that does not apply.
Brief experiences can be and often are enough to change an individual's entire life.
The near-death phenomenon is a complex dynamic that cannot be easily labeled or understood in terms typical of parapsychological studies. It is distinctly different by patterning, impact, and the cascade of aftereffects which follow - both psychological and physiological. Because of this fact, I would classify the near-death experience under the genre of transformations of consciousness. Those who state otherwise, are simply those who refuse to accept verifications made by others. She was shown during her near-death episode that she was to become a healer.