What does dying feel like? By studying patients who’ve suffered near-death experiences, scientists are one step closer to ...

The space between life and death has fascinated scientists, mystics, and near-death experiencers for centuries. It’s the strange, elusive in-between — a liminal state the body enters when the heart ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just before it ceases functioning, the brain may make a last-ditch effort to find unresolved purpose or a reason to stay alive.

Researchers have developed a model to explain the science of near-death experiences. Others have challenged it.

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 ...