Lucid dying : the new science revolutionizing how we understand life and death
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Hachette Books, 2024.
Physical Description
vi, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"From internationally renowned expert in resuscitation and New York Times bestselling author Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, comes a From internationally renowned expert in resuscitation and New York Times bestselling author Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, comes a groundbreaking look at what happens to us when we die, based on the largest-ever research study run on recalled experiences of death" --
Contents
- Section one: science of life and death
- The brain in the bucket
- A new scientific frontier
- Exploring death: past to present
- Inside the dying brain: bursts of activity
- Mystery no more: disinhibition not degeneration
- Lucid death
- Section two: Experiencing the grey zone of death
- The cosmos: A vast expansion
- Awestruck: the doctors' perspective
- Liberated and separated
- Reliving a recording of life
- Needed to do more: not as good as I thought
- Going back "home" and the final return to life
- Section three: Exploring consciousness
- Nobel Prize winning idea
- The self and its brain
- Section four: a world of distortions
- Putting lipstick on a pig
- Truth is in the eye of the beholder
- Section five: what it all means for us
- Putting it together
- Flight of life.