Life After Life: An Investigation of the Phenomenon of Survival of Bodily Death

In his unique work, philosopher, psychologist, and psychiatrist Raymond Moody was the first to describe and study the so-called near-death experience, or near-death experiences. He analyzed more than one hundred reports from patients who had survived clinical death and identified common themes that appeared in their stories—such as a loud buzzing sound, bright light, a tunnel, leaving the physical body, meeting deceased loved ones who were waiting “on the other side,” and beautiful luminous beings; a retrospective review of one’s entire life; and an unwillingness to return to our world… First published in 1975, this book quickly became a worldwide bestseller and forever changed society’s attitude not only toward death and dying, but toward life as well. This edition includes the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s already classic foreword—creator of the hospice care concept for the dying—as well as a new foreword by neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, and a celebratory afterword by the author written 40 years after the book’s first publication.