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After-death communication – Spiritual practicePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Beyond and Back – 1978 film
Cognitive science of religion – Study of religious thought and behavior
Deathbed phenomena – Range of experiences reported by dying people
Deism – Belief in a god based on rational thought
Form constant – Recurringly observed geometric pattern
Lazarus syndrome – Medical phenomenon
Near-birth experience – Alleged recollected event which occurred before or during one's own birth
Neurotheology – Attempts to explain religious experience in neuroscientific termsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Out-of-body experience – Phenomenon in which the soul (astral body) is said to exit the physical body
Pam Reynolds case – Reported near-death experience
Passage (Willis novel) – 2001 novel by Connie Willis
Proof of Heaven – 2012 nonfiction book by Eben Alexander
Psychedelic experience – Altered state of consciousness
Resurrection – Concept of coming back to life
Saved by the Light – 1994 book by Dannion Brinkley
Terminal lucidity – Sign of impending death
Zendegi Pas Az Zendegi – Iranian reality TV series (2020–2023)

== References ==

== Further reading ==
Alcock, James (1979). "Psychology and Near-Death Experiences". Skeptical Inquirer. 3: 25–41.
Lee Worth Bailey; Jenny Yates. (1996). The Near-Death Experience: A Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-91431-0
Blackmore, Susan (2002). "Near-Death Experiences". In Shermer, Ed. M. (ed.). The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-Clio. pp. 152–157. ISBN 978-1-57607-653-8.
Carroll, Robert T. (12 September 2014). "Near-death experience (NDE)". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
Choi, Charles Q. (September 12, 2011). "Peace of Mind: Near-Death Experiences Now Found to Have Scientific Explanations". Scientific American.
Engmann, Birk (2014). Near-death experiences: heavenly insight or human illusion?. Imprint: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-03727-1.{{cite book}}:  CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
Fenwick, Peter; Fenwick, Elizabeth (1995). The Truth in the Light. Berkley Books, New York. ISBN 0-425-15608-7.
Bruce Greyson, Charles Flynn. (1984). The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives. Springfield. ISBN 0-398-05008-2
Perera, Mahendra; Jagadheesan, Karuppiah; Peake, Anthony, eds. (2012). Making sense of near-death experiences: a handbook for clinicians. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84905-149-1.
Ring, Kenneth; Elsaesser, Evelyn (2024-07-08). Lessons from the Light: What Near-Death Experiences Teach Us about Living in the Here and Now. Red Wheel Weiser. ISBN 978-1-63748-018-2.
Roberts, Glenn; Owen, John (1988). "The Near-Death Experience". British Journal of Psychiatry. 153 (5): 607–617. doi:10.1192/bjp.153.5.607. PMID 3076496. S2CID 36185915.
Shermer, Michael (April 1, 2013). "Proof of Hallucination". Scientific American. 308 (4): 86. Bibcode:2013SciAm.308d..86S. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0413-86. PMID 23539795.
Schlieter, Jens (2018). What is it like to be dead?: Near-death experiences, Christianity, and the Occult times (Hardcover ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-088884-8.
van Lommel, Pim (2010). After life: a scientific approach to near-death experiences (1st ed.). New York: HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-177725-7.
Woerlee, G.M. (May 2004). "Darkness, Tunnels, and Light". Skeptical Inquirer. 28 (3).
Woerlee, G.M. (2005). Mortal minds: the biology of near-death experiences. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-283-1.
Zaleski, Carol (1987). Otherworld journeys: accounts of near-death experience in medieval and modern times (Paperback ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-503915-3.

== External links ==

Near-Death Experience Research Foundation. Includes searchable database of 5,500+ accounts
Intelligence Squared debate on NDE featuring Eben Alexander, Raymond Moody, Sean Carroll, and Steven Novella
International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)
Near death experiences and afterlife
Life after Life: Science Meets Spirit in Our Exploration of the Afterlife (Raymond Moody)
The Skeptic's Dictionary entry on NDE