As many as 10 percent of us have had what we think is a near-death experience, which, doing the math, that’s a lot – roughly 36 million in the U.S. alone.

We've all heard the stories about the bright light, your life flashing before your eyes, or maybe even a mysterious figure/voice telling you it's not your time yet. But what really happens after a ...

Near-death experiences can have lasting, life-changing effects, and new University of Virginia School of Medicine research sheds light on the types of counseling and support that can best help people ...

Understanding near-death experiences In their new paper, Greyson and Pehlivanova outline many facets of NDEs that the NEPTUNE model—and neurophysiology more broadly—still cannot explain. For example, ...

The authors of a recent study (Timmermann et al., 2018) argue that what people experience under the influence of DMT provides a model of what people undergo during near-death experiences. Although ...

Those who study near-death experiences are occasionally confronted with cases that resist straightforward interpretation. The broader phenomenon is well established: Millions of people worldwide have ...

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...