In hospital Dr Sam Parnia faces life and death issues every day. Through his work in critical care, he became very interested by some of his patients' accounts of the experiences that they had while clinically at the point of death. He started to collect these stories and read all the latest research on the subject. He then decided to conduct his own experiments, and his work has culminated in this extraordinary book. Picking up where Raymond Moody's Life After Life left off, this new, updated edition of Dr Parnia's ground-breaking study explores the answer to the ultimate question: what really happens when we die?
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Dr Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death, the state of the human mind and brain and near-death experiences. He now spends his time between UK hospitals and Cornell University in New York, where he is a Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He Founded the consciousness Research Group in the University of Southampton and is chairman of the Horizon Research Foundation. Dr Parnia also currently runs a new and innovative scientific study, in collaboration with numerous medical centres in the UK, that aims to finally discover through science what happens when we die. He is consistently in demand as a speaker and has made numerous media appearances, including appearing on This Morning and Richard & Judy. His groundbreaking research has been featured on the BBC and Discovery documentary, The Day I Died.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By "jennnh"
Format:Hardcover
This book is such a fantastic read for either the none believer OR for those already interested in NDEs. It not only includes personal experiences that people have had but also incorporates strong scientific arguments for the concept of life after death.
The evidence presented in the book makes you realise that there is certainly something going on that science is yet to discover. Ive been studying near death experiences and paranormal phenomena for ten years and this is the best book ive ever read ! Cant wait for book number two !!!
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By Kent Guy
Format:Hardcover
It's hard not to warm to Sam Parnia. A young jobbing doctor, he became increasingly fascinated by what happens to people after death. Specfically he was interested in finding out what truth - if any - there is behind Near Death Experiences.
His coup was in persuading Southampton Hospital to allow a full-on research study into the phenomenon, persuading them to put up suspended boards across the hospital (if anyone reported floating above the bed, could they then read what was the other side of the boards?!) However, funding meant it was only a very small scale study, and reading this book confirms that there is a long way to go before anything close to proof is achieved, one way or the other.
Parnia makes a good introduction to the various theories surrounding the genuine mystery of what consciousness is, and his logic in dealing with these theories is largely persuasive. It is a very readable book to the non-medical and the non-scientific, very occasionally he perhaps simplifies or over-dramatises.
What is perhaps the most powerful section of the book is the individual stories of NDEs. Some, especially from impossibly young children, are utterly extraordinary, while several reports made by from sober, highly experienced surgeons working in the heart of the medical establishment are particularly persuasive. I hope this is not the last we hear of Sam Parnia and his work, and that funds are found to allow for a full study. After all, it's hard to imagine any subject being more relevant to all mankind than what happens to us all after death...
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Hamster
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This book, written by a doctor with an open mind is clearly written. There's no nonsense here, so charateristic of books about life after death. This is the best book I've read on the subject by far. Dr Parnia's writing is calm, logical, level-headed and rational. He is careful not to make too many big claims but his findings and logic cannot be easily dismissed.
Other thinkers, scientists and psychologists have stated that near-death experiences are simply the symptoms of an oxygen-starved brain. Dr Parnia says that confusion, not the clarity characteristic of a near-death experience is what happens when the brain is starved of oxygen. Who do we believe? I don't see any reason to doubt what this doctor is saying.
It is a pity that the experiments haven't yet turned up absolute proof of what Dr Parnia is looking for, but his research is going ahead, which if successful will prove the most important and interesting yearning of mankind - to know what, if anything happens after death.
Other thinkers, scientists and psychologists have stated that near-death experiences are simply the symptoms of an oxygen-starved brain. Dr Parnia says that confusion, not the clarity characteristic of a near-death experience is what happens when the brain is starved of oxygen. Who do we believe? I don't see any reason to doubt what this doctor is saying.
It is a pity that the experiments haven't yet turned up absolute proof of what Dr Parnia is looking for, but his research is going ahead, which if successful will prove the most important and interesting yearning of mankind - to know what, if anything happens after death.
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Enlightening
Just could not put it down. Absolutely great. Sam has real vision into the possibilities that are potentially all around us.
Published 11 months ago by Demygod
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Book review
A well written book, easy to read for the layman not previously aware of the content. It delivers just what it claims with the hope of future investigation into the subject.
Published 23 months ago by Dr. Rj Morgan
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not really ground breaking
Very well written in terms of expressing already recognised theories. However, I was disappointed to find there was no further comment on the initial study. Read more
Published 23 months ago by mtf
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Really just a work in progress.
The author is a doctor with an interest in near death experiences (NDEs), which has inspired him to attempt to conduct studies to conclusively prove what happens at, or immediately... Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2010 by Glasgow Dreamer
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Near death experiences
An excellent and thought provoking account of the author's engagement with 'out-of-the body' experiences of cardiac arrest patients whilst they were in an apparent state of coma -... Read more
Published on 12 July 2009 by C. Bratcher
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Beyond the Mind-Body Problem?
This is not a woo-woo book, though it's conclusions may challenge you. Sam Parnia is heading up the AWARE programme, based at Southampton University researching into near death... Read more
Published on 28 April 2009 by simdeva
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Misnomer
This book has the wrong title. Since Dr Parnia's work has reached no conclusion, it is at best premature. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2009 by Robert Moore
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The sub-title is misleading
Normally, when I want to buy a book, I am reading other customers reviews and go with the majority opinion ... This time I should have gone with the more critical one. Read more
Published on 9 July 2007 by Marina Muller
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Really good!
This book is a very good and well written summary of new and novel research as well as efforts by scientists at trying to understand what happens when we die. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2007 by Jean Rowlings
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Disappointed
I was disappointed in this book. I thought from reading reviews of it that it was going to show us a major study indicating whether people actually have provable NDE experiences. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2007 by D. Cody
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