Category: Latest Research
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The number of Intensive Care patients who experience NDEs might be higher than we think.
Article: Incidence of near-death experiences in patients surviving a prolonged critical illness and their long-term impact: a prospective observational study.Author(s): Anne-Francoise Rousseau et al.Journal: Critical CareDate published: Feburary 2023Link to full paper. It would make sense that with more people surviving severe illness and trauma in our intensive care units (ICUs), there would be a…
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Can recalled experiences of Death (RED) be explained as just brain activity between clinical death and brain death?
Paper: Neuro-functional modeling of near-death experiences in contexts of altered states of consciousness.Author(s): Raymond Romand and Gunter EhretJournal: Frontiers in PsychologyLink to full article. In this paper, Romand and Ehret look at the phenomenon of RED or near-death experience as simply an epiphenomenon due to the neuro-functioning of the brain at the time of death.As…
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Guidelines and standards in the study of Recalled Experience of Death
Article: Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death––a multidisciplinary consensus statement and proposed future directions.Author(s): Sam ParinaJournal: Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesDownload as PDF The authors of this paper propose a set of definitions and terminology to adopt when studying near-death experiences which they suggest be…
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End-of-life experiences of palliative healthcare workers
Article: Comfort for the dying: five year retrospective and one year prospective studies of end of life experiencesAuthor(s): Peter Fenwick, Hilary Lovelace, Sue BrayneJournal: Archives of Gerontology and GeriatricsPublished: 2010Link to summary version of article. This paper looks at the end-of-life experiences (ELEs) of a palliative care team of 38 nurses, doctors and end-of-life carers.…
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Looking at the evidence for survival of human consciousness after death
Robert Bigelow is an aerospace entrepreneur from the US. His research organisation the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) recently sponsored an international contest to award authors submitting essays supporting the survival of human consciousness after death. The first prize was $500,000 and the second prize USD 300,000, so this contest was sure to attract…
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Awareness during resuscitation
Title: Awareness During Resuscitation – II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest.Author: Sam Parina et alJournal: In pre-print. A pre-print version of the Aware II paper is now available online (not yet peer reviewed). The final version may get locked away behind a paywall so its worth grabbing a copy now…
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