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Connie Willis's inspiration for Passage came in part from her mother's death, when Willis was 12. Willis felt frustrated that relatives and friends tried to comfort her with platitudes, so she wanted to write a novel that dealt with death honestly and could help people understand the process of death and mourning.
Life After Life is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs). The book presents the author's composite account of what it is like to die, supplemented with individual accounts.
Anita Moorjani [1] is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller, Dying to be Me. [2]After she was diagnosed with stage 1A Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2002, and rejected conventional treatment, Moorjani was taken to a hospital in 2006 where she lay in a coma for 30 hours, during which Moorjani claims to have undergone a near-death experience.
Moody says he had a near-death experience in 1991 when he attempted suicide (which he talks about in his book Paranormal) which he says was the result of an undiagnosed thyroid condition which affected his mental state. [4] In an interview in 1993, Moody stated he was placed in a mental hospital by his family for his work with mirror gazing. [18]
Sebastian Junger is a journalist and filmmaker, with experience as a wartime correspondent in the Middle East. At the time of the near death experience described in the book, Junger was living with his wife and two daughters on a remote property in Truro, Massachusetts, after relocating from New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book describes a near-death experience Alexander had while suffering from what should have been a fatal case of acute, gram-negative Escherichia coli bacterial meningitis, while on a ventilator and in a near death coma for one full week, with death eminently predicted by his medical experts - Alexander describes how the experience changed ...
Madonna is opening up about the severity of her health emergency that briefly left her in a medically induced coma last summer. “It was a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control ...
Betty (Jean) Eadie (born 1942) is an American author of several books on near-death experiences (NDEs). Her best-known book is Embraced by the Light, (1992) describing her NDE. It was followed by The Awakening Heart (1996).