Kenneth Ring and Nancy Evans Bush both wrote papers concerning frightening near-death experiences (NDEs) in the Fall 1994 issue of this Journal. The results of my own research are more supportive of Bush's position than they are of Ring's. This paper gives some of the reasons why and illustrates other data accumulated by me concerning frightening NDEs.
From 1990 to 1993, approximately 100 subjects in the Salt Lake City, Utah, region were interviewed who claimed to have had a near-death experience (NDE) or analogous spiritual event.Of those, 68 case studies were reported in two books (Gibson, 1992(Gibson, , 1993)).These cases corroborated pat terns previously encountered in other researchers' near-death studies, and divulged some new patterns...