The Human Experience of Death or, What Can We Learn from Near-Death Experiences?
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying November 1, 1983 DOI: 10.2190/dkhy-n1c3-xxa0-g7m5 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Near-death experience |
| Key points | Argues that death-rebirth experiences following serious accidents and illnesses can transform attitudes, personality, and beliefs, serving as a fundamental human strategy for coping with the threat of death and offering therapeutic potential if properly understood and used. |
Abstract
As a result of serious accidents and illnesses many persons undergo death-rebirth experiences. The changes in attitudes, personality, and beliefs that sometimes follow these experiences reflect rebirth and reveal a fundamental human strategy for coping with the threat of death. Many persons report that this threat is replaced by a sense of aliveness and a belief in life after death. These experiences appear to have much to teach us about the human encounter with death and to have great therapeutic potential, providing we can learn how to use them.