Life after Death

Since the early Seventies a number of reputable psychiatrists and psychologists have sought the answer to the question: Is there life after death? Their proposal was, not to establish or confirm religious belief in immortality, but to develop a rational and scientific proof of such life.

They chose two categories of human beings: the terminally ill, and those who, having been pronounced clinically dead (cessation of heartbeat and of all brain activity), were resuscitated and returned to normal physical life. Their methods have been taken as unexceptionable, the facts they established as incontrovertible, their reporting as meticulous. Yet nothing in their findings provides the slightest reason for one to conclude that the spirit or soul of the individual continues on after bodily death.

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Malachi B. Martin

Since the early Seventies a number of reputable psychiatrists and psychologists have sought the answer to the question: Is there life after death? Their proposal was, not to establish or confirm religious belief in immortality, but to develop a rational and scientific proof of such life.

They chose two categories of human beings: the terminally ill, and those who, having been pronounced clinically dead (cessation of heartbeat and of all brain activity), were resuscitated and returned to normal physical life. Their methods have been taken as unexceptionable, the facts they established as incontrovertible, their reporting as meticulous. Yet nothing in their findings provides the slightest reason for one to conclude that the spirit or soul of the individual continues on after bodily death.