Has temporary death ever been induced for science?

Something I’ve always had a weird bit of an obsession with, sometimes you hear about people who have been technically dead for several minutes, or a somewhat long time (I think I’ve heard around 15 minutes, not sure. I can’t remember the longest you can be dead for without brain damage) and always thought it would be a really awesome story to tell, I mean, seriously, you can’t beat that really.

Anyways I was wondering, for the sake of research or curiosity, have doctors ever induced death temporarily/can they? It would be neat I think, and a way to hear about different people’s experience, and how religious beliefs impact what they experienced.

As an atheist, with a practical “When you are dead that’s it” view, I am curious what I would experience. I think that what people experience are some kind of hallucinations or something along those lines caused by what goes on in the brain as you die, therefore beliefs could influence it quite a lot.

Anyways, what about you? If it could be done with a relatively low chance of you not being brought back after a period of, lets say, 6 minutes or so, without any brain damage occurring, would you do it? What if you were paid?

Of course this probably won’t happen, it’s basically the same as using humans as test subjects for experiments and therefore unethical most likely, but if I was paid, maybe even if I wasn’t and I was almost guaranteed to come back, I’d do it. Mostly out of curiosity, but also the same reason I’d travel to space in a heartbeat (preferably to come back), I don’t really have much worth living for, my life is fairly meaningless at this point in time, so why not.