Terminal lucidity
Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia
This source is used as context evidence across 1 linked claim and 4 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Overview of the phenomenon of unexpected mental clarity in the dying, with citations to the modern medical literature.
How this source is used on the map
Best general-audience entry point on terminal lucidity; pair with the university-based studies for primary sourcing.
Citation record
- Authors
- Wikipedia contributors
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Wikipedia
- Source type
- Secondary summary
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- secondary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
The nature of subjective experience.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Brief return of clear cognition before death.
Related research reports
A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
Related sources
The leading academic group publishing on cases of children claiming past-life memories and on Greyson's NDE work.
The institutional home for serious empirical work on past-life memories and survival-related anomalies.
The defining paper for terminal lucidity as a serious clinical phenomenon worth studying.