Psience Quest

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Peter Fenwick - Experiences surrounding near-death and dying (2014)
(found at https://nde.freeforums.net/thread/10/adc...edia-files)

Jan Holden - Deathbed Visions, and After-Death Communication in Grief, and Grief Counseling
(found at https://nde.freeforums.net/thread/10/adc...edia-files)

Jan Holden - After-Death Communication (Streit-Horn Study)
(found at https://nde.freeforums.net/thread/10/adc...edia-files)

Callum E. Cooper delivers an invited address at the 58th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association for his 2014 Schmeidler Student Award. His talk is based on part of his doctoral thesis, which set out to investigate what possible role hope plays within post-death encounters through the examination of bereavement and recovery. 

This guy isn't a paranormal "believer", but he's looked into the topic of visions of the dying. Includes videos of patients.

Quote:Dr. Christopher Kerr speaks at a 2015 TEDx event Buffalo, New York. Dr. Christopher W. Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer at The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, where he has worked since 1999. His background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside, specifically patients’ dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated.
 

Another end of life researcher:

I hope this is in the correct place as it's a link. If not apologies and I'll shift it somewhere else. There is some repetition of the above but also some new comment. 
 
http://www.post-gazette.com/aging-edge/a...1806280003

(2018-07-03, 04:13 PM)tim Wrote: [ -> ]I hope this is in the correct place as it's a link. If not apologies and I'll shift it somewhere else. There is some repetition of the above but also some new comment. 
 
http://www.post-gazette.com/aging-edge/a...1806280003

Good to get the comment of Dr. Kerr. I saw his TED Talk some time ago and wondered at the time what he really thought about these experiences - whether they point to some kind of survival. His comments here may give us a clue.

Quote:Such patient experiences are rarely discussed in medical training, Dr. Kerr said, as the focus there is on curing people instead of improving understanding of late-life experiences. There remain skeptics in his profession, he said, who discount the meaning of such dreams and visions. That’s part of what led him to delve into research.

“If people have had a personal experience with this, you’re preaching to the choir,” he said. “But if I’m talking to a group of medical students, they have no idea what I’m talking about. I knew a message about this could be important if it’s coming from a doctor, not from someone coming at it from a spiritual or paranormal basis.”

Dr. Kerr said he does not practice religion, but considering the frequency and realism of positive experiences by dying patients in connecting with those who died before them, “it’s hard to walk away from this and not be more inspired and hopeful of both life and death. ... I guess it feels as though there’s something of having lived that goes on.” 

Here is a recent in depth interview with Dr Peter Fenwick regarding near death but mainly end of life experiences. Whist it is definitely worth looking at, I personally don't agree with Fenwick's liking for tying these phenomena up with Hindu Philosophy (non dualism AV etc). Just my thoughts, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78SkTuk8Zd4