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Near Death Experiences

(Work In Progress: output at 06/02/2026 00:36:00)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. NDEs, if they are experiences of anything veridical:-
     1. Offer a serious challenge to those who deny the possibility or actuality of life after death²,
     2. Appear to offer support for non-physicalist accounts of the mind and
     3. Cause problems for animalists³ by lending support to alternative accounts of what we are⁴ – maybe souls⁵.
        
  2. Most of the phenomena – which I need to document and comment on (see "Wikipedia - Near-death experience") – can probably be explained by the usual “dying brain” / anoxia / endorphins suggestions, though this can be rather facile – partly because not all NDEs are had by those near death⁶, but also because the dying brain⁷ might not be up to the job of having (and remembering⁸) scenes of such alleged clarity. However, see "Jarrett (Christian) - Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences", which reports on a study that makes a detailed connection between the experiences of Ketamine (and LSD) users and NDE-reports.
  3. I have my doubts about when such experiences actually occur – but the suggestion that they occur when the experiencer is “coming round” doesn’t seem to be popular.
  4. A difficult situation to “explain away” is where the NDE-experiencer claims to see something (while having an Out of Body Experience⁹) they could not have seen under normal circumstances.
  5. Further “awkward” cases to dispose of are where experiences analogous to the NDE are had by / shared with friends / relatives of the dying. I presume these accounts should be rejected out of hand, along with all other incredible reports of exotic parapsychological phenomena. The Fenwicks give a sympathetic hearing to (the then) recent results of parapsychological research – but in an undocumented way and showing unawareness that the claims are of slight (though allegedly statistically significant) deviations from chance, not of the exotic phenomena exhibited in the accounts of NDEs. See "Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences", which also rejects the “shoe” case, but for different reasons to that on the Infidels site ("Augustine (Keith) - Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences"): see also OBEs¹⁰.
  6. See "IANDS - Journal of Near-Death Studies". A wealth of material to download for free.
  7. Recently (December 2025) I’ve been challenged to make something of the case of George G. Richie:-
     → "Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth) - Return from Tomorrow", and
     → "Ritchie (George G.) - Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying"

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  Further Remarks:
  1. See "IANDS - Journal of Near-Death Studies". A wealth of material to download for free, if I ever have the time!

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences", 1995, Book, Read
  2. "IANDS - Journal of Near-Death Studies", 2023, External Link
  3. "Jarrett (Christian) - Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read
  4. "Wikipedia - Near-death experience", 2023, External Link, Read = 8%
• For a page of Links¹¹ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹², include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Bering (Jesse) - Life after Death", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Jarrett (Christian) - Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Shushan (Gregory) - Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs", 2021, External Link
    4. "Sommer (Andreas) - Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface", 1992
    2. "Ayer (A.J.) - Postscript to a Postmortem", 1988, External Link
    3. "Ayer (A.J.) - That Undiscovered Country", 1989, No Abstract
    4. "Ayer (A.J.) - What I Saw When I Was Dead", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction: Introduction", 1984
    6. "Blackmore (Susan) - Dying to Live: Preface", 1993
    7. "Brandon (Ed) - Review of David Lund's 'Persons, Souls and Death'", 2009, External Link
    8. "Buzzi (Giorgio) - Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences", 2002, Note: Lancet.
    9. "Dennett (Daniel) - Thank Goodness!", 2007, External Link
    10. "Edwards (Paul) - Dr. Kubler-Ross, Dr. Moody, and the New Immortality Movement", 2002
    11. "Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences", 1995, Book
    12. "Kagan (Shelly) - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences", 2007, External Link, Note: Section 2.
    13. "Moshakis (Alex) - What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth) - Return from Tomorrow", Book
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Augustine (Keith) - Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences", 2003 (Updated 2008), External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    2. "Augustine (Keith) - Near-Death Experiences are Hallucinations", 2015
    3. "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Near-Death Experiences", 1984, No Abstract
    4. "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - The Evidence from Near-Death Experiences", 1984, No Abstract
    5. "Beloff (John) - Is There Anything Beyond Death? A Parapsychologist's Summation", 1997, No Abstract
    6. "Blackmore (Susan) - Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences", 1993, Book, Read = 2%
    7. "Chopra (Deepak) & Hameroff (Stuart) - Can science explain the soul?", 2010, External Link, Read = 150%
    8. "Cook (Emily Williams), Greyson (Bruce) & Stevenson (Ian) - Do Any Near-Death Experiences Provide Evidence for the Survival of Human Personality after Death? Relevant Features and Illustrative Case Reports", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    9. "Cooper (John) - Holistic Dualism, Science, and Philosophy", 1989, Read = 4%, Note: Section 2.
    10. "Green (James W.) - Beyond the Good Death: Soulscapes", 2008
    11. "Grossman (Neal) - Four Errors Commonly Made by Professional Debunkers", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    12. "Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life", 1996, Book, Read = 1%, Note: Preface, etc.?
    13. "IANDS - Journal of Near-Death Studies", 2023, External Link
    14. "Moody (Raymond A.) - Life After Life", 2001, Book, Read = 4%
    15. "Moody (Raymond A.) - The Light Beyond", 1988, Book, Read = 3%
    16. "Rawlings (Maurice S.) - To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence", 1993, Book, Write-Up Note¹³, Read = 1%
    17. "Ritchie (George G.) - Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying", Book, Read = 10%
    18. "Rosenthal (Abigail) - What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead", 2004
    19. "Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Case Studies in the Extraordinary", 2008, No Abstract, Read = 9%
    20. "Swinburne (Richard) - The Future of the Soul", 1997
    21. "van Lommel (Pim), Etc. - Near-death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    22. "Wikipedia - Near-death experience", 2023, External Link, Read = 8%
    23. "Zaleski (Carole) - Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times", 1987, Book, Read = 3%
• For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link¹⁴. Total papers = 1.

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder¹⁵.

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Table of the Previous 9 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
06/07/2023 00:43:12	5050	Near Death Experiences
20/09/2022 11:24:00	4506	Near Death Experiences
16/05/2022 21:18:43	4092	Near Death Experiences
15/02/2021 13:40:48	3820	Near Death Experiences
14/07/2019 18:05:46	3307	Near Death Experiences
24/04/2018 00:12:58	4217	Near Death Experiences
15/03/2018 20:54:14	4258	Near Death Experiences
15/10/2017 23:38:24	3712	Near Death Experiences
27/06/2011 18:57:36	807	Near Death Experiences

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
14/04/2026 04:37:07	Near Death Experiences	Death

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Brain	Death	Fine - The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter
Life After Death	Memory	Note Links Explanation	Out of Body Experiences	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage
Plug Note Apologia	Souls	What are We?	Works Read - Explanation

To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Brain Death	Death	Life After Death	Out of Body Experiences	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Status: Personal Identity (2026 - March)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Aeon	Video - Devil in the room	Paper		Yes
Aeon	Video - What does dying really feel like?	Paper		Yes
Aeon	Video - What science tells us about the afterlife	Paper		Yes
Almeder (Robert)	Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface	Paper	2	Yes
Augustine (Keith)	N/A	Author
Augustine (Keith)	Near-Death Experiences are Hallucinations	Paper	2
Ayer (A.J.)	N/A	Author
Ayer (A.J.)	Postscript to a Postmortem	Paper		Yes
Ayer (A.J.)	What I Saw When I Was Dead	Paper		Yes
Bacchiocchi (Samuele)	Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny	Paper
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda)	Immortality or Extinction	Book	2
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda)	Immortality or Extinction: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Bailey (Andrew M.)	N/A	Author	2
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	N/A	Author	2
Barker (Jonathan)	N/A	Author
Bering (Jesse)	Life after Death	Paper		Yes
Blackmore (Susan)	Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences	Book	2, 3, 4
Blackmore (Susan)	Dying to Live: Preface	Paper		Yes
Blackmore (Susan)	The Meme Machine	Book
Brandon (Ed)	Review of David Lund's 'Persons, Souls and Death'	Paper		Yes
Buzzi (Giorgio)	Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Yes
Chopra (Deepak) & Hameroff (Stuart)	Can science explain the soul?	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Cooper (John)	Holistic Dualism, Science, and Philosophy	Paper
Crane (Tim)	N/A	Author	2
Dennett (Daniel)	Thank Goodness!	Paper	2	Yes
Donnelly (John)	Death and Ivan Ilych	Paper
Doyle (Robert O.)	N/A	Author
Edwards (Paul)	Dr. Kubler-Ross, Dr. Moody, and the New Immortality Movement	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book	2	Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper	2	Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book		Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Francione (Gary)	N/A	Author
Greeley (Andrew)	The Light Beyond: Foreword	Paper	2
Green (James W.)	Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying	Book
Grossman (Neal)	Four Errors Commonly Made by Professional Debunkers	Paper
Hasker (William)	Afterlife	Paper
Hick (John)	Death and Eternal Life	Paper	2
Honderich (Ted)	N/A	Author
Jarrett (Christian)	Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences	Paper		Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences	Paper		Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	Death	Book		Yes
Lester (David)	Is There Life After Death? A Review of the Supporting Evidence	Paper
Lewis (David)	N/A	Author	2, 3
Mellor (D.H.)	N/A	Author
Menuge (Angus) & Taliaferro (Charles)	Symposium on Ramified Natural Theology: Introduction	Paper
Millican (Peter)	N/A	Author
Moody (Raymond A.)	The Light Beyond	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Morison (Frank)	N/A	Author
Morse (Melvin)	Life After Life: Preface	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Moshakis (Alex)	What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Orwell (George)	N/A	Author
Polkinghorne (John)	N/A	Author
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Book
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Paper	2
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Book	2
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Paper	2
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Book
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Paper
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Book
Ritchie (George G.)	Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying	Book
Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth)	Return from Tomorrow	Book		Yes
Rosenthal (Abigail)	What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead	Paper
Rowson (Jonathan)	N/A	Author
Seth (Anil Kumar)	N/A	Author
Talbot (Michael)	The Holographic Universe	Book
Taylor (A.E.)	N/A	Author
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Life After Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Out of Body Experiences	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Zaleski (Carole)	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	Paper
Zaleski (Carole)	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	Book
Zaleski (Carole)	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	Paper
Zaleski (Carole)	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	Book
Zaleski (Carole)	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	Paper

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Aeon	Video - Devil in the room	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 04 April 2014	Yes
Aeon	Video - What does dying really feel like?	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 23 June 2022	Yes
Almeder (Robert)	Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	2%
Almeder (Robert)	Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface	Paper - Cited	Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death	Yes
Augustine (Keith)	Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences	Paper - Cited	Infidels Website	6%
Augustine (Keith)	Near-Death Experiences are Hallucinations	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 4, Chapter 25	No
Ayer (A.J.)	Postscript to a Postmortem	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayer - The Meaning of Life	Yes
Ayer (A.J.)	That Undiscovered Country	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayer - The Meaning of Life	Yes
Ayer (A.J.)	The Meaning of Life	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Ayer (A.J.) - The Meaning of Life	2%
Ayer (A.J.)	What I Saw When I Was Dead	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Immortality, pp, 269-275	Yes
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda)	Immortality or Extinction	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction	5%
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda)	Near-Death Experiences	Paper - By Subtopic	Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction, Chapter 9	No
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda)	The Evidence from Near-Death Experiences	Paper - By Subtopic	Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction, Chapter 5	No
Bering (Jesse)	Life after Death	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 13 November, 2013	Yes
Blackmore (Susan)	Coming Close to Death	Paper - By Subtopic	Blackmore - Dying to Live, Chapter 1	No
Blackmore (Susan)	Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences	Book - Cited	Blackmore (Susan) - Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences	2%
Buzzi (Giorgio)	Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences	Paper - Referencing	Lancet. Vol. 359, Issue 9323 (June 15, 2002): 2116-2117	Yes
Cook (Emily Williams), Greyson (Bruce) & Stevenson (Ian)	Do Any Near-Death Experiences Provide Evidence for the Survival of Human Personality after Death? Relevant Features and Illustrative Case Reports	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Scientic Exploration, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 377-406, 1998	4%
Edwards (Paul), Ed.	Immortality	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Edwards (Paul), Ed. - Immortality	4%
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Book - Cited	Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Yes
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth)	The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Paper - By Subtopic	Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences	Yes
Greeley (Andrew)	The Light Beyond: Foreword	Paper - By Subtopic	Moody (Raymond A.), Perry (Paul) & Greeley (Andrew) - The Light Beyond, 1988	No
Green (James W.)	Beyond the Good Death: Soulscapes	Paper - By Subtopic	Green (James W.) - Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying, Chapter 4	No
Green (James W.)	Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying	Book - By Subtopic	Green (James W.) - Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying	2%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: A-B (& General)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: G-K	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	31%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: L-P	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	33%
Hick (John)	Death and Eternal Life	Book - Cited	Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life	1%
IANDS	Journal of Near-Death Studies	Paper - Cited	JNDS Home Page	0%
Jarrett (Christian)	Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 20 June, 2019	Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences	Paper - By Subtopic	Open Yale Courses, 2007	Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Kagan (Shelly) - Death	Yes
Lester (David)	Is There Life After Death? A Review of the Supporting Evidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 4, Chapter 30	No
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	15%
Moody (Raymond A.)	Life After Life	Book - Cited	Moody (Raymond A.) - Life After Life	4%
Moody (Raymond A.)	The Light Beyond	Book - Cited	Moody (Raymond A.) - The Light Beyond	3%
Moshakis (Alex)	What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?	Paper - Referencing	Guardian On-Line, 7 March 2021	Yes
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Philosophy - 79/310 (October 2004)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy - 79/310 (October 2004)	1%
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Book - By Subtopic	Rawlings (Maurice S.) - To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	1%
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Rawlings (Maurice S.) - To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	6%
Ritchie (George G.)	Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying	Book - Cited	Ritchie (George G.) - Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying	10%
Ritchie (George G.)	Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying	Paper - By Subtopic	Ritchie (George G.) - Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying	15%
Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth)	Return from Tomorrow	Book - Cited	Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth) - Return from Tomorrow	Yes
Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth)	Return from Tomorrow	Paper - By Subtopic	Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth) - Return from Tomorrow	Yes
Rosenthal (Abigail)	What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy - 79, Oct2004, Issue 310, p507-531, 25p	No
Shushan (Gregory)	Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 12 July 2021	Yes
Sommer (Andreas)	Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 6 January 2020	Yes
Thompson (Evan)	Dying: What Happens When We Die?	Book - Referenced	Thompson (Evan) - Dying: What Happens When We Die?	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Near Death Experiences	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
van Lommel (Pim), Etc.	Near-death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands	Paper - By Subtopic	Lancet 2001; 358: 2039–45	17%
Wikipedia	Near-death experience	Paper - Cited	Wikipedia; Extract taken 30 April 2023	8%
Zaleski (Carole)	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	Book - By Subtopic	Zaleski (Carole) - Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	3%
Zaleski (Carole)	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	Paper - By Subtopic	Zaleski (Carole) - Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times	12%

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