Journal of Interpersonal Violence
July 1, 2001
Katarina Fritzon, Julie Ridgway
68 citations
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of victim resistance in attempted homicide. The study examined 93 cases of attempted homicide. Chi-square analysis revealed that certain behaviors, such as multiple acts of violence and methods of control, are more likely to occur if the victim resists. A multivariate analysis of crime-scene actions was carried out using Smallest Space...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
June 1, 2001
Kay E. Ketzenberger, G. Keim
There is a considerable literature documenting the effects of a near-death experience (NDE) on persons who actually undergo the experience, in terms of their attitudes and opinions about NDEs. However, investigations of how much nonexperiencers know about NDEs and their attitudes towards them are in short supply. This study examined the relationship in people who have not had an NDE between...
Death Studies
April 1, 2001
Emily Williams Kelly
53 citations
Few scientists have taken seriously the interpretation of near-death experiences (NDEs) as evidence for survival after death, even though most people having such an experience have become convinced that they will survive death and several features of NDEs are at least suggestive of survival. This article compares survival and some nonsurvival interpretations of NDEs in light of one feature...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
March 1, 2001
L. Bailey
A phenomenon remarkably like the near-death experience has been uncovered in Tibetan culture, aside from the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead (Thurman, 1994). Anthropologists have gathered accounts of contemporary and historical cases of remarkable people called delogs. Seemingly dead for several hours or days, these people revive spontaneously and tell detailed accounts of otherworldly...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2001
Todd Murphy, San Francisco, S Blackmore et al.
22 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) in Thailand do not demonstrate the episodes most noted in those collected in the West, but they do show con sistent features. I argue that these features, including harbingers of death, visions of hell, the Lord of the underworld, and the benefits of making dona tions to Buddhist monks and temples, can be understood within the framework of beliefs and customs...
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
2001
Bruce Greyson
71 citations
Persons who report "near-death experiences" (NDEs) acknowledge more intrusive symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than those who came close to death without NDEs, but not more avoidance symptoms, suggesting a nonspecific stress response. Although dissociation generally increases vulnerability to PTSD, the positive affect that distinguishes NDEs from other dissociative experiences...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
December 1, 2000
Brock Haussamen
This study looks at three popular works of short fiction, by Leo Tolstoy, Ambrose Bierce, and Katherine Anne Porter, in which the main character dies at the end. Some similarities between these deaths and recent near-death experience (NDE) accounts are that the characters experience various kinds of distancing from their bodies, light and darkness play a role, and two of the stories include a...
The Lancet
February 1, 2000
Bruce Greyson
149 citations
BackgroundSome people who come close to death report having experiences in which they transcend the boundaries of the ego and the confines of time and space. Such near-death experiences (NDEs) share some features with the phenomenon of dissociation, in which a person's self identity becomes detached from bodily sensation. This study explored the frequency of dissociative symptoms in people who...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2000
E. W. Kelly
Review of the book "On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience" written by Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino as a theoretical and philosophical discussion of NDEs.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
September 1, 1999
C. R. Lundahl
In 1982, Kenneth Ring identified a phenomenon where some near-death experiencers were permitted to see a picture of the Earth's future as a “prophetic vision” or PV. In his study of the PV, Ring identified five elements of the PV for the future of the Earth as geophysical changes, meteorological changes, supply and economic breakdowns, nuclear war, and a new era of love and world peace. He also...