by Sam Parnia
First published 2006
Dr. Sam Parnia works in a hospital emergency room where death arrives daily. His patients tell him strange stories about what they experienced while clinically dead. These accounts fascinate him enough that he begins gathering them systematically. Parnia reads existing research on near death experiences and decides the field needs more rigorous investigation. He designs his own experiments to test what happens during clinical death. His scientific training as a critical care physician gives him unique access to patients at the moment between life and death. The work challenges everything he thought he knew about consciousness and mortality. Parnia must balance his medical skepticism with the consistent patterns he finds in patient reports. His research leads him into territory where science meets the unknown.
Genres: science, medical, non-fiction, academic
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: scientific-investigation, unknown
240 pages · Hardcover · Hay House Inc.