To support research efforts, IANDS maintains a registry of personal near-death experience accounts that are submitted to our website and are published here anonymously. Minor edits have been made to protect the identity of the experiencer and others who may have been involved with the experience. These are personal accounts. We have not interviewed those who shared their stories about their experiences or the circumstances surrounding them.
Note to researchers and authors: IANDS cannot grant permission to publish quotations from these NDE accounts because we have not received permission from the NDE authors to do so. However, we advise authors who wish to use quotations from these accounts to follow the Fair Use Doctrine (see our Copyright Policy for more information). We recommend adopting this practice for quotations from our web site before you have written your book or article.
To access the registry of personal accounts, click here.
To submit your own account of a near-death experience, click here.
Video/Audio Accounts
Some video and audio accounts are available, featuring individuals describing their experiences. Some of these NDE accounts were recorded at various IANDS sponsored events; others are from the news media, and several are from other sources.
All links are to video or audio files that are in the public domain on the Internet. Most reside on YouTube.com, the largest repository of non-commercial video on the internet, and we link to them. (With each segment, youtube.com will post thumbnail links to other videos. The quality of those — and sometimes the content — will vary. We are unable to screen their links, as they frequently change.)
To access these files, click here.