Near-Death Experiences
Relevance to the Question of Survival After Death
- Ian Stevenson, MD;
- Bruce Greyson, MD
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
Excerpt
DURING the last two decades, articles and books about death and dying have proliferated, but, with rare exceptions, their authors ignore completely the question of whether man survives after death.
One of us (I.S.) recently has reviewed the evidence that suggests man's survival after death.1 The evidence available is far from necessitating a conclusion in favor of such survival, but it is also far from deserving the neglect it has received from most scientists. One type of research that may contribute to this evidence is the investigation of neardeath experiences—reports of persons who come close to death but escape. Such experiences include those of persons who are seriously injured or ill and are expected to die or are thought to be dead, but who unexpectedly recover. Also relevant are the experiences of persons who anticipate death during a potentially fatal situation, such as a fall from a great height,
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