People who experienced near-death events often turn to personal expression as a way of processing trauma and articulating beliefs. While scholars have examined how individuals share near-death experiences (NDEs), limited research has explored how these narratives are communicated collaboratively on today's social media platforms. We analyzed 200 randomly sampled TikTok videos tagged with #nde and related hashtags. Content analysis revealed that individuals often use NDE narratives to articulate personal meaning, with spiritual and religious themes appearing in the majority of posts and serving as a means of exploring and making sense of personal spiritual perspectives. Consistent with this, analyses of comment sections reveal that videos containing spiritual themes tend to attract more engagement and foster deeper conversations around faith and meaning. Our findings offer insights into how online platforms facilitate community-level engagement with spirituality, and suggest implications for design of spaces that support shared expression and connection in specialized communities.

翻译：经历过濒死事件的人们常常通过个人表达来处理创伤和阐述信仰。尽管学者们已研究过个体如何分享濒死体验，但关于这些叙事在当今社交媒体平台上如何被协作式传播的研究仍较为有限。我们随机抽样分析了200条带有#nde及相关标签的TikTok视频。内容分析显示，个体常利用濒死体验叙事来阐述个人意义，其中精神与宗教主题出现在大多数帖子中，并成为探索和理解个人精神视角的途径。与此一致的是，评论区分析表明，包含精神主题的视频往往能获得更多互动，并引发围绕信仰与意义的深层对话。我们的研究揭示了在线平台如何促进社区层面的精神参与，并对支持特定社区中共享表达与连接的空间设计提出了启示。