Abstract
Under the heading ‘near-death experiences’ I include two rather different sorts of data: first reports from people who have been resuscitated from a close encounter with death; and secondly reports collected from doctors and nurses about the death-bed experiences of some of their patients. Let us start by examining what it is that resuscitated persons claim to remember.
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M. A. Simpson, The Facts of Death (Prentice Hall, 1979 ) p. 32.
C. Tart, ‘Out-of-the-body experiences’ in E. D. Mitchell, Psychic Exploration (Putnam, 1974 ) p. 361.
M. A. Simpson, The Facts of Death pp. 33–5.
K. Osis and E. Haraldsson, At the Hour of Death (Avon, 1977) chapter 3.
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G. N. M. Tyrrell, Apparitions (Duckworth, 1953) p. 54.
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Badham, P., Badham, L. (1982). The Evidence from Near-death Experiences. In: Immortality or Extinction?. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04439-9_5
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