Someone you know has probably had one. They may not have told you. That’s the first strange thing about near-death experiences – they happen more often than anyone talks about, and the people who’ve ...

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 ...

Some experiences at the edge of life are hard to explain but impossible to ignore. These are the kinds of events or moments that make you pause and think deeper about life and the universe. Ready to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. It’s probably not a spoiler to let readers know that a book about a ...

Several years ago, I was approached to write a popular book on terminal lucidity—a near-death phenomenon in which individuals with severe cognitive impairment experience unexpected moments of clarity ...

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people's brushes with death, top ...