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. Mary NDE, NDERF.org, accessed August 8, 2019, https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1mary_nde.html.
. The Lancet article cited in Journal of Near- Death Studies 27, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 48 (online reference: http://netwerknde.nl/wp-content/uploads/jndsden-tureman.pdf).
. Simran W NDE, NDERF.org, accessed April 29, 2015, http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/NDE_Experiences/simran_w_nde.htm.
. From the transcript of an interview with Dr. Mary Neal by John Burke, October 2015.
. From the transcript of an interview with Dr. Mary Neal by John Burke, October 2015.
. From the transcript of an interview with Dr. Mary Neal by John Burke, October 2015.
. Near-Death Experiences Illuminate Dying Itself, New York Times , October 28, 1986, https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/28/science/near-death-experiences-illuminate-dying-itself.html.
. George G. Ritchie and Elizabeth Sherrill, Return from Tomorrow (Grand Rapids: Spire, 1978), 3655. Used by permission.
. Ritchie and Sherrill, Return from Tomorrow , 93.
. Ritchie and Sherrill, Return from Tomorrow , 20.
. Raymond Moody Jr., Life after Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 5.
. Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper, Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2008), Kindle edition.
. Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), Kindle edition, location 9.
. British Broadcasting Company, The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences , film (2002), http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/day-i-died/.
. Van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life , 26.
. Van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life , 136.
. Van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life , 13233.
. Michael Sabom, Light and Death (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), Kindle edition, locations 8390, 12225.
. Synopsis of Sheilas NDE (including direct quotes) from Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), Kindle edition, location 2630.
. Long and Perry, Evidence of the Afterlife , 44.
. J. Steve Miller notes that The Index to NDE Periodical Literature collects these articles: http://iands.org/research/index-to-nde-periodical-literature.html; Near-Death Experiences as Evidence for the Existence of God and Heaven: A Brief Introduction in Plain Language (Acworth, GA: Wisdom Creek Press, 2012), Kindle edition, location 8.
. J. M. Holden, B. Greyson, and D. James, eds., The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009), 7.
. Van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life , 13233.
. Miller, Near-Death Experiences as Evidence , 3839.
. Long and Perry, Evidence of the Afterlife , 67.
. Long and Perry, Evidence of the Afterlife , 5758.
. Marvin J. Besteman and Lorilee Craker, My Journey to Heaven: What I Saw and How It Changed My Life (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012), Kindle edition, location 1214. Used by permission.
. Van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life , 46.
. Hazeliene M NDE, NDERF.org, accessed August 8, 2019, http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/NDE_Experiences/hazeliene_m_nde.htm.
. Besteman and Craker, My Journey to Heaven , 151.
. Moody, Life after Life , 55.
. Erlendur Haraldsson and Karlis Osis, At the Hour of Death (Guildford, Great Britain: White Crow Books, 1977), 184.
. Dale Black and Ken Gire, Flight to Heaven: A Plane Crash... A Lone Survivor... A Journey to Heavenand Back (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2010), Kindle edition, locations 2829, 98106.
. Richard Eby, Caught Up into Paradise (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1978), 2045.
. Synopsis of Eben Alexanders NDE (including direct quotes) from Eben Alexander III, Proof of Heaven (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), Kindle edition, locations 89, 2932, 38, 4849, 143.
. Ring and Cooper, Mindsight , 55465.
. Ring and Cooper, Mindsight , 27.
. British Broadcasting Company, The Day I Died , http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/day-i-died/.
. Black and Gire, Flight to Heaven , 100.
. Long and Perry, Evidence of the Afterlife , 130.
. Haraldsson and Osis, At the Hour of Death , 37.
. Haraldsson and Osis, At the Hour of Death , 19091.
. Haraldsson and Osis, At the Hour of Death , 153.
. Haraldsson and Osis, At the Hour of Death , 181.
. Miller, Near-Death Experiences as Evidence , 8385.
. Moody, Life after Life , 78.
. Faisal Malick, 10 Amazing Muslims Touched by God (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2012), Kindle edition, location 81.
. Bodie Thoene and Samaa Habib, Face to Face with Jesus: A Former Muslims Extraordinary Journey to Heaven and Encounter with the God of Love (Bloomington, MN: Chosen, 2014), Kindle edition, location 215765. Used by permission.
. Miller, Near-Death Experiences as Evidence , 8384.
. Miller, Near-Death Experiences as Evidence , 8687.
. Rene Hope Turner NDE, NDERF.org, accessed May 5, 2015, http://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1rene_hope_turner_nde.html.
. Haraldsson and Osis, At the Hour of Death , 177.
. Jenny Sharkey, Clinically DeadIve Seen Heaven and Hell (Gospel Media, 2013), Kindle edition, location 2531.
. Thoene and Habib, Face to Face with Jesus , 17680.
. A. J. Ayer, What I Saw When I Was Dead, National Review (October 14, 1988): 3840.
. Holden, Greyson, and James, eds., Handbook of Near-Death Experiences , 70; cited in Miller, Near-Death Experiences as Evidence , 170.
. Van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life , 2930.
. From the transcript of John Burkes personal interview with Howard Storm.
. From the transcript of John Burkes personal interview with Howard. The last two sentences in this paragraph are from Howard Storm, My Descent into Death: A Second Chance at Life (New York: Doubleday, 2005), 25.
. From the transcript of John Burkes personal interview with Howard Storm. The last four sentences in this paragraph are from Storm, My Descent into Death , 26.
. Moody, Life after Life , 92.
. All quoted material about Howard Storms NDE, aside from that which is cited with endnotes, is from the transcript of John Burkes personal interview with Howard Storm.