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>self-induced near-death
Death is of the body is it not? Near-death experiences are still only "near" death, it's not death. As far as separation of soul from body goes, I'd expect that to happen in death, but you don't see a dead person die before they're actually dead, and you being alive have little ground for saying that the soul is or isn't of the body if your criterion for establishing this is whether or not it's able to "die". Conversely, Aquinas and Plato are only conjecturing. Maybe you could argue for something like astral projection proving the soul's intangibility and immortality, and separation from body, but I'm not sure.