Tag: Dying as process

The Threshold of Near-Death Experience, Between Two Worlds

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2024

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Near-Death Experiences, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Dying as process, Featured, Lucid Dying (Hachette 2024), Sean Carroll on the soul}

Heart Attack Doctor: Science Shows That Death Is Not the End

_{Sam Parnia began by wondering how brain cells can give rise to thoughts. He came to see that the message “from science” was not what he had been led to expect} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2024

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Medicine and Health, Near-Death Experiences, Philosophy of Mind}

Parnia concludes that science suggests, at a minimum, that our consciousness and selfhood “are not annihilated when we cross over into death.” Read More ›

A young woman holding the hand of an old woman in a hospital bed, black and white

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 15, 2024

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Dying as process, Marilyn Mendoza, Terminal lucidity}

Palliative Care Doctor: What Dying Feels Like

_{Although a dying person tends to spend more and more time asleep or unconscious, there may be a surge of brain activity just before death} _{Denyse O'Leary
February 15, 2024

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Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind}

Fifty years ago slick commentators expected to explode myths about the soul or the hereafter but today, NDEs and terminal lucidity are serious research topics. Read More ›