What does dying feel like? By studying patients who’ve suffered near-death experiences, scientists are one step closer to ...

The space between life and death has fascinated scientists, mystics, and near-death experiencers for centuries. It’s the strange, elusive in-between — a liminal state the body enters when the heart ...

Near-death experiences can have lasting, life-changing effects, and new University of Virginia School of Medicine research sheds light on the types of counseling and support that can best help people ...

It’s one of humanity’s most enduring mysteries: What happens when we die? Now, a new scientific investigation has taken us a step closer to understanding what may lie beyond the grave, the Daily Mail ...

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 ...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has been described as “profound psychological events with ...

End-of-life experiences” is the theme of the 2026 edition of the “Behind and Beyond the Brain” Symposium, promoted by the Bial Foundation, which will take place from April 8 to 11 at Casa do Médico, ...

They were at death’s door and opened a window to a whole new world. About 15% of severely ill patients report enduring a near-death experience (NDE), which may mean having an overwhelming out-of-body ...

Our brains have been designed through evolution to make it impossible to think of ourselves as not having consciousness, easily leading us down the road of thinking of our minds as being immortal. In ...

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, ...