Terminal Lucidity book: Threshold

Book scheduled for publication September 2023

Threshold
Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death

Author: Alexander Batthyany

from the author, via facebook,

Hello everyone - I hope you forgive me for blowing my own trumpet, but I thought the group might be interested to learn that Macmillan, one of the larger, if not the largest, American publisher, will publish a (my) book on terminal lucidity later this year, in September.

In this book, I will summarize the story of our research, and present a large number of case examples from our studies, plus a few attempts to understand what TL is all about. And what it might tell us about ourselves and the destiny of the self in life and death.

About the author:
Alexander Batthyány

but I thought the group might be interested to learn that Macmillan, one of the larger, if not the largest, American publisher, will publish a (my) book on terminal lucidity later this year, in September.

Hi, Typoz ! Where did you get that statement from? Looks very interesting, that book.

How dumb am I (I must be blind lol facebook)

Hi, Typoz ! Where did you get that statement from? Looks very interesting, that book.

How dumb am I (I must be blind lol facebook)

For the sake of clarity, it is in this FB group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/679134755613298

Unfortunately it's private, I guess that's so people can share their own personal accounts.

[Laird]

When the Mind Returns: The puzzle of terminal lucidity

Alexander Batthyány Ph.D.
Psychology Today
December 29, 2025

Key points

• Terminal lucidity describes brief, unexpected returns of clarity shortly before death.
  
• These episodes appear to challenge standard models linking cognition strictly to tissue.
  
• A small group of researchers helped move terminal lucidity from anecdote to coordinated science.
  
• For families and caregivers, lucid moments reshape meaning, identity, and connection at life’s end profoundly.
  

This article's almost a month old by now - I've just embarked on sharing a backlog - but notable as a summary by the book's author in a somewhat mainstream publication.

Incidentally, to cross-reference a couple of other PQ threads about Alexander's book:

@LotusFlower expressed enjoyment in reading it on 2023-11-20 when starting this thread: Threshold: New book on terminal lucidity

@sbu expressed positive surprise about it on 2024-05-13 when starting this thread: Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death by Alexander Batthyány

I haven't read it myself, but it sounds like a good complement to Peter Fenwick's book The Art of Dying, which I have read.

I haven't read it myself, but it sounds like a good complement to Peter Fenwick's book The Art of Dying, which I have read.

I have both of those books in my book collection, and in my opinion Batthyány's book is indeed a good complement to The Art of Dying. Reading that book was a positive surprise to me too and I definitely recommend it.