Scepticism disappear once you have an NDE. Mine was quite amusing, actually, if you can use the word to describe dying. It sure was not amusing to my wife who happened to be near when I 'died'. The most amazing thing is that I was completely out of my body... close to it, but not in it! Add to it that my body was crouched on the floor with my wife looking at It! The focus was on my body not on me, I was completely invisible as she was bending over asking what had happened and if she needs to call an ambulance. But there I was standing right beside my body and my wife looking at all of that going on. BTW, this was the only way that I found to become invisible to my wife :)
The experience did not last very long and I was back into my body quite shortly, but I remember the sensation of a myriads of tiny needles everywhere in my body as it started to awaken to life.
During that short period of being 'out' I did not see God or any other creature nearby.
I was fascinated with the experience ever since and dedicated myself to learning about this phenomenon quite a bit. I was fortunate to come across a series of books that explained the questions I had and more.
The crust of what we have when body dies is that our soul-inner-being lives on to continue... now get ready! evolution! through reincarnation.
All living matter evolves endlessly going through planetary evolution first and next to evolving in cosmos. The cosmos is incredibly complicated and is made up of endless amount of energies. Our universe is made up of 7 basic energies. They form the 'ether' or the 'light' that's in many teachings. They also form all matter, living or minerals.
As we evolve we learn to understand how to interact with this world and we move on upon graduation to next levels endlessly.
But, do the souls ever die??? Yes, they may. Death of a soul is a result of the process that is a reverse of evolution. When a human leads life that destroys mind and soul, soul eventually either eventually dies. But before it dies it's given many chances to start over, however, the potential that's been destroyed in previous life is gone... So the being needs to work on restoring to the previous levels of consciousness / understanding that it had.
In other words, the way we live our lives determines how long we stay on earth and how far we go.
The problem is that once we get new bodies the memory of previous incarnations shuts down in most of the people. Blame education, environment, parents etc. that put us in conditions that make evolution harder.
There is absolutely vital information in the books that I will recommend. I think everyone interested need to read and evaluate for himself.
http://www.levashov.info/English/books-eng.html
The person who wrote the books reached amazing heights in helping others and self-development.
There is the most interesting videos on his site too:
http://www.levashov.info/Video/Movie-2-en-1.zip
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4299656106768040543&hl=en#
Expect to be shocked, but in a good way that brings understanding.