Near-Death Experiences

What happens after someone has a near-death experience? This podcast details how one man's life changed after his near-death experience, something common in those who experience the phenomenon, according to experts. Randy Schiefer nearly died in 2020 when he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and put in a medically induced coma. As medical staff worked to save him, Schiefer says he was elsewhere. After his experience, he and his family report that his behavior shifted, and he became more emotionally vulnerable and religious and lost his former lifelong fear of death.

Near-death experiences usually happen during death or on the border of life and death when a person isn't understood to be conscious. This article details the science of what's going on with the brain during NDEs.

A study of 25 hospitals found that the flatlined brains of some cardiac arrest patients experienced flurries of activities during CPR. This article details how a small subset of the study's participants who survived reported being able to recall what happened after their hearts stopped. This phenomenon is known as near-death experiences or "recalled experiences of death." The study involved 567 participants, of which 53 survived, and 28 were interviewed. Another 126 people outside the initial group who had survived cardiac arrests were also interviewed due to the small number of survivors.