The question many people ask is this: "Why doesn’t everyone experience the same thing during their NDE?" Because everyone does not experience the same thing, they reason, means the NDE is not a real afterlife experience. Such conclusions are based on the false premise that there are no similarities among NDEs. As an example, it is almost universally true the NDE involves the perception of leaving the physical body. In fact, the nature of the NDE itself is strong circumstantial veridical evidence for life after death. The following pages lay out the argument for why the nature of the NDE itself is strong evidence for the validity of it being an afterlife experience.