Tag: NDE
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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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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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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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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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