Near-Death Experiences and Psychological Wellbeing: A Quantitative Analysis

Pratte, Erika Annabelle

doi:10.30891/jopar.2022.01.05

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“…Research exploring the nature of NDEs has been extensive in recent years (see, e.g., Parnia, 2017 ; Pratte, 2022 ), and qualitative research methods have brought a deeper understanding of the characteristics and interpreted meanings of NDEs (see, e.g., Seifu et al, 2022 ). For example, a thematic analysis of 34 cardiac survivor NDE narratives by Cassol et al ( 2018 ) provided detailed information about the vocabulary used by people who have experienced NDEs to describe their experiences.…”

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Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study

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Granberg-Axéll

2023

Qual Res Med Healthc

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Near-death experiences (NDEs) can occur during episodes of unconsciousness from life-threatening conditions, such as sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs). This study is based on interviews with patients who had an NDE. The interviews were analyzed with phenomenological hermeneutical method for their lived experiences and the meaning for the view of life and death. Four participants were interviewed 10 weeks after their NDE. Four themes emerged: being on the other side, in another dimension; not dreaming, this is a real experience; being in a non-physical condition without my body; and comparing views of life and death before and after the NDEs. The participants described the NDEs as an experience of another realm as non-physical in nature and existing beyond space and time. This study shows that this experience of another state of being, through the lived experiences of NDEs, gave the participants an entirely new meaning on life and death. To them, death was no longer viewed as an end but a passage into something else and that life continues after death. This realization instantly changed their worldview.

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