Dr. Raymond Moody, the physician and philosopher who pioneered modern near-death experience research with Life After Life, joins Art Bell to discuss NDEs, dying, and empathic death experiences. Art opens with alarming reports about the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, where 213 cases have been recorded with a fatality rate approaching 100 percent, and warnings that the virus may be transmitting through the air. He also shares Australian gun control statistics showing dramatic increases in crime following a mandatory firearm surrender program.

Dr. Moody describes a new wave of "empathic death experiences" in which bystanders at the bedside of dying patients report leaving their own bodies, seeing the deceased in spirit form, and witnessing reunions with departed relatives near a brilliant light. He attributes the rising number of these reports to changing hospital practices that now allow family members to remain present during the moment of death. He also discusses cases in which terminally ill or unconscious patients suddenly become vividly lucid shortly before death.

An emergency physician calls in to share a case where a brain-dead cardiac arrest patient, upon recovery, described how rescuers could not get her stretcher through the restaurant kitchen, a detail independently confirmed by the responding paramedic. Dr. Moody also recounts the famous case of Pam Reynolds, whose brain was drained of blood for 40 minutes during aneurysm surgery yet who reported detailed observations of the procedure upon revival.