From the article:
I wish to suggest that this approach to explaining the NDE is fundamentally misguided. To my knowledge, no one who has had an NDE feels any need for an explanation in the reductionist sense that researchers are seeking. For the experiencer, the NDE does not need to be explained because it is exactly what it purports to be, which is, at a minimum, the direct experience of consciousness—or minds, or selves, or personal identity—existing independently of the physical body.
Well, the easiest person to fool certainly is yourself. If what the author says is true, then I am unhappy of these folks' admission of willfully allowing to be ignorant.
It is only with respect to our deeply entrenched materialist paradigm that the NDE needs to be explained, or more accurately, explained away.
Explained away? Well, I am fairly certain that NDEs occur, so why would I want to act like they dont? What I'm interested in is the mechanism behind NDEs, in fact I am very much opposed to "explaining away" this occurence.
In this article, I will take the position that materialism has been shown to be empirically false;
You take a string of logic. You put your hand at one end, you put your hand at the other end. Move your two hands with ends of logic in place towards each other, connect the two ends of logic. You now have a circle.
I'm afraid the authors deliberate avoidance of an objective examination does not appeal to me.
The author does happen to name 3 things which refute Materialism:
Before addressing this question, I’d like to say something about the kind and strength of evidence that refutes materialism. Emily Williams Cook, Bruce Greyson, and Ian Stevenson (1998) describe “three features of NDEs—enhanced mentation, the experience of seeing the physical body from a different position in space, and paranormal perception—which we believe might provide convergent evidence supporting the survival hypothesis.”
Enchanced Mentation is a word which refers to another kind of super-sensory perception (at least that is what I gather).
I'm afraid I dont buy the "seing the physical body from a different position in space" as refuting Materialism anymore than I see dreaming of your physical body refuting Materialism.
The final evidence against Materialism comes in the form of something which has absolutely zero evidence in the way of support for it.
I could go on and give a full synopsis of the article, Mr. Wu, if you would like. NDEs do nothing but prove NDEs occur, they prove the existence of an afterlife just as much as Ouija Boards prove ghosts.
Am I afraid of an afterlife? No, my concept of an afterlife makes me feel happy and tingly inside, its nothing to fear.
But one difficulty for the materialist is the question of why everyone near death doesn't have false memories on being resuscitated. My hypothesis is that they've forgotten those false memories! 
