Quotes

Advances in the last ten years have started to shake our understanding of death. Contrary to what we thought, after a person dies brain cells don't necessarily die in just a few minutes. They can remain in a viable state for many hours. A point will come where the cells inside our brain are so damaged that, no matter what we do, we can't restore function. But that takes many hours. It's now possible to manipulate those processes and prevent cells from cascading toward their own death, to fix the underlying problem that caused the person to die, and bring back the whole person.

We now have many people who, due to advances in medicine, have gone beyond the threshold of death. They're giving us a universal picture of what the experience of death is like. They have this enormous peace. They feel joyous. If they had pain, the pain goes away. They often describe seeing a light, and particularly a being of light. It guides them through a review of their entire life, from early childhood to that moment. Sometimes they experience everything they had done to others..In a sense they judge themselves. They're very much positively transformed by the experience - they become more altruistic, less afraid of death, and it gives a different quality to the life they lead.