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Originally Posted by WabiSabi
Indeed. But the key difference is that in being deeply asleep, being under general anesthesia, or being in a coma, you are still alive and your mind is still functioning, just to a greatly lessened degree. So that in such states we are still experiencing, but such experience is not stored in memory, so that these states are akin to death, but to a lesser degree. There are coma patients who claim that they were aware of every moment of their coma, and that they were aware of everything that was going on around them. In these cases, I believe that their coma was simply not as 'deep' if you will.
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Of course...I am aware there are cases where someone in a coma is completely aware of every moment...It all depends on how deep they fall into it...I was mostly focusing on the one story I remember hearing about where the passing of time was non-existent for them and relating that to the topic of the thread of no time passing for individuals who experience such things while still being alive...