It wasn't until The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death Experiences was launched, and the store graciously allowed me to do a program about it, that I learned why I was denied such an affair for the book about child experiencers. The manager had read it and was absolutely horri ed that near-death experiences could happen to children. His is a store with a strong emphasis on families, and he wanted to do everything in his power to protect parents from any such news. He black-listed the book. Melvin Morse's previous work did not impress him, either.
Most adults are instinctively protective of children.
Anything that seems a threat either to the child's welfare or to parental authority is met with resistance. This incident showed me that there's more involved with educating people about child experiencers and what they might contend with as per aftereffects than we may want to admit. 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.