(Xuanyu Han/Moment RF/Getty Images) Of all the strange trappings associated with the near-death experience, none is so ...

The final moments of life do not follow one universal pattern. What science has learned about pain and fading consciousness ...

Outside the emergency room entrance, Katie Winschief floated above her body as paramedics put her in a wheelchair and rushed her toward the hospital doors. Everyone on the ground grew smaller as she ...

Humanity throughout history has struggled to know the answers to existential questions such as where we came from, why we are here on this planet and what will happen when we die. Near-death ...

During a hospital resuscitation, a nurse removed an unconscious man’s dentures and placed them in a drawer of a crash cart. Days later, after the patient regained consciousness, he was told his teeth ...

Modern medicine has proven so adept at saving victims of cardiac arrest that a good number of people are walking around today who at one time or another were considered clinically dead. While this is ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. It’s probably not a spoiler to let readers know that a book about a ...