Tag: NDE
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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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Identifying the Near Death Experience.

The Near-Death Experience scale was developed in 1983 by Dr Bruce Greyson in an attempt to provide a reliable, valid and simple way for clinicians to identify an NDE. It consisted of 16 questions, and the person would choose from a series of provided (weighted) responses for each one. Link to Bruce Greyson’s original 1983…
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Website: The Search for Life After Death.
Site: https://thesearchforlifeafterdeath.com The Search for Life After Death, is the work of Jenn, who at the age of 16 had a near-death experience and now documents her own explorations into topics including: This is an exceptionally well-written site with engaging posts, sometimes deeply personal, other times educational with a strong evidence-based but open minded approach…
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Pamela Reynolds. The most interesing NDE of all time?

Pamela Reynolds was an American singer-songwriter (she died in 2010) who had an NDE in 1991 at the age of 35.She was being operated on to treat a large brain-stem aneurysm, a surgery that required lowering her body temperature to 10 C and stopping her heart (a procedure known as hypothermic cardiac arrest). During this…
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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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Book review: Living in a Mindful Universe
This is Dr Eben Alexanders third book dealing with the topic of life after death. His first one is titled: “Proof of Heaven” (2012) and was followed by “The Map of Heaven” (2014). I had not seen any particularly good reviews on his first two books and did not read them. As my views on the…
