Dementia is often described as "the long goodbye." Although the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories and the qualities that make someone "them." ...

There are records of several unusual experiences reported by people in a terminal state, occurring in the final days, hours, or minutes of life. One such experience, known as terminal lucidity (TL), ...

VIGO — Things were not going very well for Aleksandr Pushkin in the fall of 1836. He was deep in debt, expenses piling up and rumors were circulating about the private life of his wife, Natalia.

Last year, I received a phone call telling me that my mother was seriously ill and would probably pass away in the next few hours. I rushed to the hospital and found my mum deeply unconscious, in a ...

In Alexander Batthyany’s new book, Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death, he asks the question, “Why is it at the decisive crossroads of death and dying, when the biological ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

Batthyány (editor of Foundations of Near-Death Research), a professor of existential psychotherapy at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, argues in this thought-provoking account that his research ...

Alexander Batthyány writes that “a good scientific theory should predict and explain what is observed. Mr. Pinker’s materialism does neither” (Letters, Nov. 6). Yet a biologically plausible hypothesis ...

Research assessed caregivers’ perceptions when witnessing episodes of terminal lucidity in children. The findings indicate that witnessing these episodes was regarded as a profoundly spiritual ...