Doctor recounts experiences with dying patients

Thank you so much for posting this topic. 🤗

I do believe there is an afterlife - I will post some of my favorite videos about it here in your topic.

By the way, our pets can also give us signs from the other side, just like human loved ones can.
 
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Thank you so much for posting this topic. 🤗

I do believe there is an afterlife - I will post some of my favorite videos about it here in your topic.

By the way, our pets can also give us signs from the other side, just like human loved ones can.
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By all means post away, the doctor in the vid seems legit.

Kind regards,

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Dr. Raymond Moody has been the foremost authority on Near Death Experiences since the 1970s. His decades of inquiry into the NDE phenomena gives us credible accounts of what people experience when the body dies, but consciousness continues.

 
Oh absolutely. After 30 years of being an RN my Wife can tell you all kinds of stories about the things people see and talk about while they're dying.
 
Jose was a true atheist and engineer who believed death was just like turning off a light bulb - until he saw his father in heaven and they made an incredible "deal".

 
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Pim van Lommel (Netherlands) has been researching near-death experiences for decades. He is a cardiologist and one of the most renowned death researchers of our time. After extensive studies with clinically dead patients who were successfully resuscitated, he is convinced that consciousness continues to exist after physical death - in a "non-local" form, as "endless consciousness".

This interview focuses on his personal journey from what he describes as "a materialistic cardiologist" to an idealistic death researcher, as well as the most important findings of his research, which he summarised in his essay ‘The Continuity of Consciousness’.

 
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It is related to this topic and quite a lengthy story but far much to quote so I'm inserting just a snippet.

The profound meaning and mystery of deathbed visions​

As a physician and the chief medical officer of Hospice Buffalo, Chris Kerr has seen his patients experience end-of-life dreams and visions for nearly 30 years. Since 2010, he has led a research team that studies the phenomenon and chronicles how the visions can provide solace, meaning and healing to both the dying and their loved ones.

But his own first encounter came when he was 12 years old, standing at the bedside of his dying father.

William Kerr was a 42-year-old surgeon with end-stage cancer, and on that day in 1975, he reached out and ran his fingers over the buttons of his son’s jacket. The two of them had to hurry, he said; it was time to catch a plane to head up north for their fishing trip together.

Even as a boy, Kerr sensed that his father believed he was in a different place or time, far from the hospital room — and that wherever he was, he seemed peaceful there. But Kerr was quickly ushered away by a priest who said his father was “delusional.”

Twenty-four years later, now a cardiology fellow and the fifth generation of his Canadian family to practice medicine, Kerr found himself unexpectedly confronting that final memory with his dad. It was 1999, and he had answered an ad for a part-time job at Hospice Buffalo, the nonprofit hospice and palliative care organization in New York that was the first in the country to establish an integrated, freestanding campus. As Kerr made his first rounds at the inpatient unit, he immediately noticed something striking: There were 10 beds filled on the floor, he told me, “and half the patients were somewhere else.”

What he means by this — somewhere else — is that these patients were engaged with a different reality around them, interacting with people and places only they could see.

At first, he found it unsettling. But then he observed the veteran nurses.
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The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies research portfolio includes investigating children who have memories of past lives; the nature of consciousness and the mind-body relationship; neuro-imaging studies of psi events; and individuals who report experiencing near-death experiences(NDEs). In this panel, the legendary actor, writer, and comedian, John Cleese, convenes DOPS research faculty to present an overview of the research to which they have dedicated their academic careers.

 
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New Theory Explains Why So Many People See the Same Thing During a Near-Death Experience

Death is the one experience nobody can really prepare for—but a surprising number of people have gotten close enough to
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New Theory Explains Why So Many People See the Same Thing During a Near-Death Experience​

Death is the one experience nobody can really prepare for—but a surprising number of people have gotten close enough to report back.

About 10% of people across 35 countries report having had a near-death experience, according to a survey published in PeerJ. That’s not a small number. These are millions of people who came close enough to death to report something on the other side, and what they describe follows a surprisingly consistent script: leaving the body, moving toward light, reuniting with someone who died before them, a feeling of overwhelming peace, and then coming back.

Dying, from a neurological standpoint, isn’t like flipping a light switch. Studies of patients at the moment of death show the brain producing a sudden surge in gamma waves—its highest-frequency output, associated with peak conscious processing and perception. A 2023 study found these surges concentrated in brain regions associated with visual processing and memory retrieval. Whatever’s generating those NDE reports, the brain activity behind them appears to be very real.
Most People Who Have a Near-Death Experience Say It Was a Happy Trip
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"The emotional picture that emerges from NDE accounts is mostly positive. Research out of France and Belgium found that feelings of peace dominated the experience, with many people also reporting a sudden sense of understanding everything at once. A large multi-site study of cardiac arrest survivors found that some patients reported overwhelming peace and love during the period in which they were actively receiving CPR. About 14% of NDE accounts do include distressing elements, so it’s not universally a good trip. But the majority of people who report any experience at all describe something they don’t want to come back from."

A new theory published in Frontiers in Psychology in 2026 attempts to explain why. Researcher Kayış proposed what he calls the dying-moment dream hypothesis, arguing that the experience is best understood as a dream state the brain generates in response to oxygen deprivation. When the brain stops receiving input from the outside world, it turns inward, flooding consciousness with memories and emotions drawn from the person’s own life. The theory’s most provocative claim is that the emotional tone of the experience—peaceful or hellish—is shaped by the person’s accumulated emotional history. A life defined by love and connection would, in theory, produce a very different ending than one weighted by trauma and unresolved guilt. Cultural context plays into it as well: in Christian cultures, the bright light is perceived as a being, while in Japan it’s more often reported as an inanimate object.


That particular piece of the theory hasn’t been tested yet and remains speculative. What isn’t speculative is that fewer than 40% of people who come close to death report any conscious experience at all. There’s a reasonable chance the whole thing is just nothing. But for the people who do come back with a story, it’s usually a fascinating one.
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Here is a link to the study noted in the above:

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Frontiers | The dying-moment dream hypothesis: heaven and hell as the brain’s final dream

Reports of near-death experiences (NDEs), end-of-life visions (ELVs), and culturally embedded afterlife narratives frequently describe profoundly positive or...
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