There is a very small group of people who have come back from the brink of death, who were pronounced clinically dead before ...

While browsing JSTOR for a bioethics essay last term, I came across an article about the phenomenon of ‘near death experiences’. Having now learnt a lot more about them, I can honestly say that NDEs ...

Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are unusual psychological phenomena provoked by a brush with death, such as feelings of immense joy or out-of-body experiences. A new pair of studies explores the ...

As many as 10 percent of us have had what we think is a near-death experience, which, doing the math, that’s a lot – roughly 36 million in the U.S. alone. A group of University of Virginia School of ...

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...

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 ...

Near-death experiences are often described as brief but intense. In a case reported by The Mirror, one woman says hers felt like something far longer – what she remembers as years, not minutes. Rubi ...

Texas A&M University researchers have found that a brief virtual reality (VR) simulation of a near-death experience can sharply reduce people’s anxiety about death. In a small pilot study of about 60 ...

The man sitting across from me introduces himself as a house painter. His near-death experience followed a severe fall from a ladder: fractured ribs, internal bleeding, loss of consciousness before ...

Near-death experiences are one of the most puzzling phenomena in psychology. A near-death experience is when a person appears to be clinically ‘dead’ for a short period—when their heart stops beating, ...