"This fact is a fundamental principles expounded throughout the Vedic literature. One of the most famous and oft-quoted verses of Bhagavad-gita states: "As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change."
(Bg. 2.13)

During our lifetime we are unknowingly creating the subtle form of our next physical body. Just as a caterpillar transports itself by taking hold of one leaf before giving up another, the living entity begins to prepare its new body before giving up the present one. At the moment of actual death the soul transmigrates to a new body rendering the body of its former habitation lifeless. The soul does not need the body to exist, but without the presence of the soul, the body is nothing more than a corpse. This transferral of the soul from one body to another is what we call reincarnation.

Although hundreds of recorded NDEs seem to present ample evidence that the mind and soul can exist while separate from the body, NDEs (near-death experience)don't give us any definite information about the soul's final destination at death. Therefore, while literature on near-death-experiences can provide us with a basis for accepting reincarnation, it still leaves readers sadly uninformed about the true nature of reincarnation and the destiny of the soul after the death experience.