ABSTRACT
As Edward Hall, the anthropologist, said: ‘There is no such a thing as “experience” in the abstract as a mode separate and distinct from culture’ (1959: 143). We may wonder, does this claim apply to NDEs? This chapter will address this question by presenting the results of various cross-cultural studies of NDE. It will also introduce for the first time the results of a small-scale study that I carried out in Japan and explore its cultural significance in terms of ‘Death and Life Studies’.
