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News Releases and Statements
(March 19th 2025) IANDS-Published Book ‘The Self Does Not Die’ Receives Book Prize
(March 11th 2025) International Association for Near-Death Studies Releases Virtual Reality Video to Simulate Reported Experiences
Fact Sheets on Near-Death and Related Experiences
NDE – Near-Death Experience Fact Sheet – page – PDF
ADC – After-Death Communication Fact Sheet – page – PDF
PLM – Past Life Memories Fact Sheet – page – PDF
SDE – Shared Death Experience Fact Sheet – page PDF
TL – Terminal Lucidity Fact Sheet – page PDF
Select Researchers and Research Centers
Select Published Research
IANDS publishes the Journal of Near-Death Studies where all full-text articles over one year old are available at no cost by clicking on the URL under the article entry in the Past Issues listings.
A number of select, important papers or paper abstracts are linked below. Additional research may be found on Google Scholar and PubMed.
Near-Death Experiences
Long-term transformational effects of near-death experiences, Jeffrey Long, MD, and Marjorie Woollacott. PhD., Explore (NY), 2024.
AWAreness during REsuscitation – II: A multi-center study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest, Sam Parnia, MD, et al., Resuscitation, 2023.
“My heart sang within me, and I was glad to be dead”: The reception of near-death experiences across the cultures of Oceania, Gregory Shushan, PhD, Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2018.
“He should stay in the grave”: Cultural patterns in the interpretation of near-death experiences in African traditional religions, Gregory Shushan, PhD, Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2017.
“The Sun told me I would be restored to life”: Native American near-death experiences, shamanism, and religious revitalization movements, Gregory Shushan, PhD, Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2016.
Near-death experiences in non-life-threatening events and coma of different etiologies, Vanessa Charland-Verville, PhD, et al. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, 2014.
AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study, Sam Parnia, MD, et al., Resuscitation, 2014
Getting Comfortable With Death & Near-Death Experiences: Near-Death Experiences: An Essay in Medicine & Philosophy, Raymond Moody, MD, Missouri Medicine, 2013
Near-death experiences: the experience of the self as real and not as an illusion, Pim van Lommel, MD, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2011.
Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality, Bruce Greyson, MD, Journal of Religion and Science, 2006
Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: A prospective study in the Netherlands, Pim van Lommel, MD, et al., The Lancet, 2001
The Near-Death Experience Scale: Construction, reliability, and validity, Bruce Greyson, MD, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1983
Shared Death Experiences
Shared death experiences: A little-known type of end-of-life phenomena reported by caregivers and loved ones, Shared Crossing Research Initiative, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, 2021.
Shared death experience: A multicultural survey, Patrizio Tressoldi, PhD, et al., American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2023
Terminal Lucidity
Terminal Lucidity in a Pediatric Oncology Clinic, Philip Roehrs, MD, et al., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2024.
The importance of the exceptional in tackling riddles of consciousness and unusual episodes of lucidity, Michael Nahm, PhD, Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
Spontaneous remission of dementia before death: Results from a study on paradoxical lucidity, Alexander Batthyány, PhD, and Bruce Greyson, MD, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice, 2021
The death of Anna Katharina Ehmer: A case study in terminal lucidity, Michael Nahm, PhD, and Bruce Greyson, MD, Omega Journal of Death and Dying, 2014
Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection – ScienceDirect, Michael Nahm, PhD, et al., Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2012.
Terminal lucidity in patients with chronic schizophrenia and dementia: A survey of the literature, Michael Nahm, PhD, and Bruce Greyson, MD, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2009
After-Death Communication
Perceptual phenomena associated with spontaneous experiences of after-death communication: Analysis of visual, tactile, auditory and olfactory sensations, Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, et al., Explore, 2021
Empirically-based best estimates of after-death communication (ADC) phenomena: A systematic review of research, Jenny Streit-Horn, PhD, et al., Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2022.
Comparative effects of Induced After-Death Communication and traditional counselling on grief, Janice Miner Holden, EdD, et al., Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, 2019.