Collectively, these extraordinary reports are known as veridical near-death experiences (vNDEs)—cases in which people later ...

At 28, a woman says she had a near-death experience during surgery and came back with a detail she could not explain: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mercedes Somich was on the operating table when she said she left her body. It was the 24-year-old’s first pregnancy, and her ...

A person's heart stops. Seconds later, consciousness disappears. Yet some people later report floating above their bodies or moving through a tunnel of light. What happens to the self when the body ...

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death, top ...

Someone you know has probably had one. They may not have told you. That’s the first strange thing about near-death experiences – they happen more often than anyone talks about, and the people who’ve ...

Near-death experiences continue to challenge the scientific understanding of consciousness: how can vivid and structured reports be explained at moments of extreme physiological failure? This is the ...

According to an influential study published by The Lancet in 2001, one out of 10 patients who go into cardiac arrest will come back with a new core memory. This “near-death experience” (or NDE) is so ...

Ms. Grose is a Times Opinion writer and the author of a Times newsletter on culture, social change and the American family. Marzena Abrahamik is a photographer based in Chicago. Jan. 7, 2026 ...