IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH?
David C. Pack, Herbert W. Armstrong
Journal of Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy 2025 DOI: 10.5040/9781501301926.ch-016 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | News report Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 1,600 |
| Population | People who have reported near-death experiences, drawn from accounts worldwide |
| Key points | Long argues that scientific evidence from near-death experiences supports the conclusion that life after death exists, based on cataloguing roughly 1,600 accounts. He contends that medicine cannot account for the consistencies in these accounts reported by people around the world. |
Abstract
Is there life after death? Theologians can debate all they want, but radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long argues that if you look at the scientific evidence, the answer is unequivocally yes. Drawing on a decade's worth of research on near-death experiences — work that includes cataloguing the stories of some 1,600 people who have gone through them — he makes the case for that controversial conclusion in a new book, Evidence of the Afterlife. Medicine, Long says, cannot account for the consistencies in the accounts reported by people all over the world. He talked to TIME about the nature of near-death experience, the intersection between religion and science and the Oprah effect. (See how you can change your genes.)
Citations in the library
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- A phenomenological investigation into the psychological transformation interpreted as 'Spiritual Awakening' : possible causes, characteristics, and after-effects Liverpool John Moores University 2017
- The Near-Death Experience: An Integration of Cultural, Spiritual, and Physical Perspectives Journal of Near-Death Studies September 1, 1999