His 1995 book, “The Truth in the Light,” which he wrote with his wife, Elizabeth, included anecdotes from more than 300 people who recounted having near-death experiences — which he ...

In an excerpt from her book “The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story,” Edwidge Danticat writes about death, near-death experiences, and close calls.

Dr Peter Fenwick, who has died at aged 89, was a neuroscientist and psychiatrist and a leading authority on the phenomenon of near-death experiences or NDEs, in which people on an operating table ...

A young Ernest Hemingway, badly injured by an exploding shell on a World War I battlefield, wrote in a letter home that “dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death, and really I know ...

Ancient texts like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bible and the Koran describe events that sound very much like the near-death experiences we hear about today. The ancient Greeks chimed in as well.

Near-death experiences have long been a fascinating phenomenon, prompting more questions than answers. "Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences,” by Dr. Jeffrey Long and ...

Want to know what it’s like to be dead? Ask Julie Maeder, a 50-year-old certified image consultant from Troy, Mich. "When I was 13 years old, I was in northern Michigan at my family’s cabin ...