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 ...

The University of Virginia hopes to take part in what is billed as the world's first large-scale scientific study of near-death experiences. Bruce Greyson, a psychiatry professor and director of U.Va.

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...