Hebrews 9:27 and Near Death Experiences

So I'm crazy busy studying for my metaphysics midterm Wednesday morning, but I did want to post a short thought.

Hebrews 9:27 - "people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment."

This verse is used to talk about how there's no purgatory or spirit prison (LDS) after death. I use it like that and I'm not sure that I'm questioning that interpretation.

But I randomly thought about what we would do with this verse in light of near-death experiences (NDE). What does this verse mean then? Taken literally, it would mean that NDEs are not possible since people can only die once. But then by that logic, resurrections would be impossible and those are also happening around the world. Besides, if one is convinced that NDEs happen, so much the worse for that strictly literal interpretation.

So we can't take this to be super literal. This is especially true when one sees that the point of the statement is really to say something about the value of Jesus' sacrifice. So I see it as saying something like "whenever a person finally dies and is not brought back to life, then there is no further chance for them to change the course of their afterlife."

Interesting thought though: what happens to an unbeliever who dies but is resurrected the next day? Or, less controversially, comes back to life after 20 minutes of death. So what just happened there? Did that person go to hell for like, 20 minutes and then tell Satan "ha! see ya later!" and rejoins his body? As my friend Mig says, "Swaaaaa????"

I don't think we can really answer these questions. But, as always, I'm curious about the implications of the interpretive issues at play here.