Scientists Say Life After Death May Be Possible - in a Way

Research into near-death and out-of-body experiences is forcing scientists to come up with explanations .

What happens after we die? Are we snuffed out like lights, or do we continue to exist in some way?

Those are age-old questions, for sure. But a provocative new study on near-death experiences suggests that a brief version of "life after death" may be a reality.

For the study, researchers at the University of Southampton in England examined more than 2,000 cases of cardiac arrest from 15 hospitals across the U.K., the U.S., and Austria. They found that of 360 people who had been revived after experiencing cardiac arrest, about 40 percent of them had some sort of "awareness" during the period when they were "clinically dead." Read more

Immortality Research Projects Funded

Millions of dollars have been handed out to researchers investigating human immortality.

Research projects investigating the near-death experience and the 'life review' component of the NDE are among the first recipients of funding from The Immortality Project at the University of California, Riverside, selected from among 75 proposals. The Immortality Project was established at UC Riverside in 2012 with a $5 million, three-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation to undertake a rigorous examination of a wide range of issues related to immortality.

The funded proposals include: Read more