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In the fall of 2003, The Learning Channel aired a non-copyright brand new British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) production about NDEs entitled The Day I Died. IANDS Board members were immediately and powerfully impressed with the quality of the 45-minute program. It showed two in-depth case studies of NDErs�one in the U.K., the other in the U.S.; depicted the two most recent prospective NDE research studies�one in the U.K., the other in the Netherlands; interviewed the most outstanding NDE researchers worldwide; presented both skeptical and �believer� perspectives; and reenacted the most compelling case of veridical (verifiably accurate) perception in an NDE during radical surgery for a brain aneurysm. The production was completely up-to-date and covered virtually everything an inquiring mind needed for an informed and balanced introduction to the phenomenon of NDEs. In short, most, if not all, Board members considered it the best NDE production made to date�very close to the ultimate NDE video.
Many people who die (or nearly die) and come back to life have an experience. The experiences have a lot of common elements. Many if not most of these experiences are not considered real or important by the experiencer, but there are many experiencers who consider their experience to be real and they are profoundly changed by the experience. Sometimes they want to share it with others. This page, unlike many other web sites on the subject, seeks to gather unbiased information about NDEs. Most web sites about the NDE want to "promote" it in some sense and tell only about the most exotic or interesting experiences. The unfiltered collection of experiences here are from around 1997, about 20 years after the topic first started gaining interest in the U.S. The experiences seem highly varied, despite the common elements. Please keep in mind that even these experiences are filtered in the sense that those who do not think the experience carried any significance are not likely to report it. A near-death experience (NDE) is an experience reported by a person who nearly died or who was clinically dead and revived. Some scientists believe the experience can be explained by hallucinations caused by a dying brain. However, this model of explanation is steadily being challenged by longitudinal studies conducted in the Netherlands and elsewhere (van Lommel, 2004). The experience is surprisingly common, especially since the development of cardiac resuscitation techniques. According to a Gallup poll approximately eight million Americans claim to have had a near-death experience (Mauro, 1992). The experience often includes an out-of-body experience.
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