ABSTRACT
What happens as we die? And what, if anything, might follow our deaths? Commencing in the last quarter of the twentieth century and continuing into the twenty-first, new research based on the testimonies of persons who had ‘died’ before being resuscitated convinced many that these questions could finally be answered. For these people often made remarkable claims that they had journeyed to other worlds, meeting deceased friends and relatives and glimpsing heavenly fields and streams, before receiving a gentle but forgiving judgement by a loving, divine, ‘being of light’. Their stories were deeply moving, apparently consistent, and seemed to baffle doctors and scientists. Indeed, many of these remarkable claims were themselves investigated and published by those self-same doctors and scientists. Could it really be true? Had twentieth-century medical science finally unlocked the mystery of death? And had it revealed that the human soul was, after all, capable of surviving the demise of the body?
