Near Death, Explained

The title of this piece is overblown, it does not explain Near Death fully. For that I strongly recommend you get a copy of Pim van Lommel's Consciousness After Life. It is the most up to date and comprehensive book written on the the subject of Near Death Experiences and beyond.

However, this essay will give you a give sense of the state of the art concerning this area of research. -Â Â Stephan A.Schwartz, www.schwartzreport.net

MARIO BEAUREGARD - Salon

In 1991, Atlanta-based singer and songwriter Pam Reynolds felt extremely dizzy, lost her ability to speak, and had difficulty moving her body. A CAT scan showed that she had a giant artery aneurysm-a grossly swollen blood vessel in the wall of her basilar artery, close to the brain stem. If it burst, which could happen at any moment, it would kill her. But the standard surgery to drain and repair it might kill her too.

With no other options, Pam turned to a last, desperate measure offered by neurosurgeon Robert Spetzler at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Spetzler was a specialist and pioneer in hypothermic cardiac arrest-a daring surgical procedure nicknamed 'Operation Standstill.â€ Spetzler would bring Pamâ€™s body down to a temperature so low that she was essentially dead. Her brain would not function, but it would be able to survive longer without oxygen at this ...