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Near-death experiences in non-life-threatening events and coma of different etiologies

Charland-Verville, Vanessa et al. (2014)

Published
May 27, 2014
Journal
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · Vol. 8
DOI
10.3389/fnhum.2014.00203
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At a GlanceAI

NDEs after non-life-threatening events look the same on the Greyson scale as those after coma.

SummaryAI

From 190 reports meeting NDE criteria, Charland-Verville and colleagues compared experiences after coma (140) with "NDE-like" experiences after non-life-threatening events (50). Intensity and content did not differ between the groups, nor across causes of coma. Peacefulness was the most common feature, and only 1% described a negative experience. Retrospective reports showed higher feature frequencies than published prospective data.

Method SnapshotAI

Retrospective survey of self-reported experiences scored with the Greyson NDE Scale.

BackgroundAI

Greyson NDE Scale.

In Collections

Psychology28 papers

Near-death experiences: reports, measurement and explanations

Some people who come close to death later report leaving their body, a tunnel, a bright light, meeting deceased relatives or a review of their life. This collection follows how psychology and medicine have studied these reports: from the first case collections (Moody, Ring) and the Greyson NDE Scale, through prospective studies of cardiac arrest survivors, to neurobiological, psychological and cultural explanations, distressing NDEs, and what changes in people's lives afterwards. What NDEs are is still debated, and the verdicts here are ours. Terms: * NDE: near-death experience * OBE: out-of-body experience * WCEI: Ring's Weighted Core Experience Index, an early measure of NDE depth

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Evgeny Smirnov

NDEs without any threat to life are indistinguishable from "real" ones on the Greyson scale. An inconvenient fact for those who tie NDEs to dying.

— ES