Soul Files - Investigating The End

Told like never before: one of the best-known NDEs, when Howard Storm, the atheist professor, nearly died in 1985. How does this distressing near-death experience hold up today against recent NDE research?

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Full documentary: https://youtu.be/d22ZI_w45d0

Who comes before you die (according to science)?

Deathbed visions raise a question that hospice physician Dr. Christopher Kerr has spent decades investigating… and most families never think to ask.

Five clues. This documentary investigates “end-of-life experiences” through reputable research, firsthand family accounts, and a century-old case that leaves a haunting question unanswered.

What do we actually know about deathbed visions?
Have you witnessed someone else’s? Share your story in the comments.

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Chapters:
0:00 No One Warns You
1:56 Doris's Deathbed Visitor Baffled Them All
3:35 Clue 1: How Many Dying Patients Experience This?
4:52 Clue 2: The Ones Who Show Up
7:16 Clue 3: When the End Is Near
10:15 Clue 4: Is It the Brain Failing? (Terminal Lucidity)
13:15 What Happens Before They Die (In Order)
15:56 Clue 5: The Dying Who Knew Too Much (Peak in Darien)
18:51 Who Shows Up for the Children?
19:36 In the End

Music: original score generated for this episode.

Mentioned in this episode:
Dr. Christopher Kerr, Hospice Buffalo, “Death Is But a Dream” book, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Lady Florence Barrett, Bruce Greyson, University of Virginia, Batthyány.

Sources:
- Kerr, C. W., et al. (2014). End-of-Life Dreams and Visions: A Longitudinal Study of Hospice Patients' Experiences. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 17(3), 296–303. doi:10.1089/jpm.2013.0371
- Greyson, B. (2010). Anthropology and Humanism, 35(2), 159–171.
- Barrett, Sir W. (1926). Death-Bed Visions. The Doris case, January 1924.
- Batthyány & Greyson (2021). Dementia study.
- Kerr, C., with Mardorossian, C. (2020). Death Is But a Dream.

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