Tag: death
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Anke Evertz
In September 2009 Anke accidentally set fire to herself after returning from a short jog. I was in the process of starting a fire in our fireplace, when my baggy jogging pants caught fire. With a slight trace of irritation for my inattention, I tried to extinguish the flames with my hands, but this wasn’t…
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Poem: When Death Comes
The American poet Mary Jane Oliver died on January 18, 2019. She was 83 years old. When death comeslike the hungry bear in autumn;when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purseto buy me, and snaps the purse shut;when death comeslike the measle-pox;when death comeslike an iceberg between the shoulder blades,I want to step through…
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A Dutch study on NDE
A Near-Death Experience (NDE) is a form of non-ordinary experience that can be summarised as: “the reported memory of a range of impressions during a special state of consciousness, including a number of special and universal reported elements such as an out-of-body experience, pleasant feelings, seeing a tunnel, a light, deceased relatives, a life review,…
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Dr Bettina Peyton
A story published in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing recounts the Near-Death Experience (NDE) of Bettina Peyton a now-retired doctor. Dr Peyton’s NDE occurred in 1988 when she was 32 years old and working at Tufts New England Medical Centre in the US. Prior to her experience Dr Peyton had no belief in life after…
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Does ChatGPT think there is life after death?
Ian Wardell is a philosopher and deep thinker who writes about psi phenomenon and the possibility of an afterlife at his blog: Philosophical Thoughts. A lot of good stuff worth browsing through. In a recent post, he has a fascinating ‘conversation’ about life after death and consciousness with ChatGPT which is a question/answer interface driven by artificial intelligence.…
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End of life care
BJ Miller is a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician perhaps best known for his 2015 TED Talk, “What Really Matters at the End of Life” In this live conversation at the Esalen Institute, BJ shares his insights on the differences between palliative and hospice care, the emotional and spiritual needs of patients facing terminal…
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