Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death
Sam Parnia, Stephen G. Post, et al. · 2022 · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1511(1), 5-21
Summary
Multidisciplinary consensus statement proposing terminology and research standards for studying death, cardiac arrest, and recalled experiences of death.
Why it matters here
Useful authority source for careful language: it separates recalled experiences of death from broad spiritual conclusions and lays out better future-study standards.
Editorial note
Full author list intentionally trimmed to et al. for readability.
Linked claims
Hypoxia, hypercarbia, REM intrusion, endogenous DMT, and ketamine models reproduce many NDE features. Veridical cases resist the model.
The brain as transducer, not source — proposed by James, Bergson, Huxley. Compatible with neural correlates but harder to falsify.
A handful of veridical NDE cases are striking. The leap from 'unexplained by current models' to 'proof of afterlife' is large.
A consistent core experience — peace, light, life review, OBE — reported across cultures and prospective hospital studies.
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.
Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.
What consciousness is, how it relates to brains, and whether it's basic to reality.
The nature of subjective experience.
Mind–brain relation, qualia, intentionality.
Whether anything of mind continues.