Sawing the branch of near‐death experience research: A critical analysis of Parnia et al.’s paper
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences June 21, 2022 R. Evrard, E. Pratte, Th. Rabeyron 13 citations
In their recent paper, Parnia and colleagues propose a new label for the near‐death experience (NDE): recalled experience of death. They claimed NDEs are “authentic” only when an objective danger is present and that authentic NDEs have a proven core phenomenology. We consider that these claims are insufficiently supported by empirical data. NDEs appear as a continuum of heterogeneous...