The new book “Proof of Heaven” by neurosurgeon Eben Alexander describes a near death experience he had while he lay in a coma induced by a meningitis infection. He saw and experienced a world with ...

Mercedes Somich was on the operating table when she said she left her body. It was the 24-year-old’s first pregnancy, and her labor had already been painful and dramatic. But then she needed an ...

It’s one of humanity’s most enduring mysteries: What happens when we die? Now, a new scientific investigation has taken us a step closer to understanding what may lie beyond the grave, the Daily Mail ...

Any near-death experience is a terrifying thing to go through, especially when someone attempts to end your life.

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has been described as “profound psychological events with ...

To figure out how people deal with near-death experiences, researchers at the University of Virginia surveyed 167 individuals who said they had one. They were at death’s door and opened a window to a ...

Ms. Grose is a Times Opinion writer and the author of a Times newsletter on culture, social change and the American family. Marzena Abrahamik is a photographer based in Chicago. Jan. 7, 2026 ...

After a near-death experience postpartum, I worried for about a year and a half whether months of complications could return at any moment. ChatGPT gave me the closure my doctors didn't. Why it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. It’s probably not a spoiler to let readers know that a book about a ...

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people's brushes with death, top ...

Several years ago, I was approached to write a popular book on terminal lucidity—a near-death phenomenon in which individuals with severe cognitive impairment experience unexpected moments of clarity ...