At the present time, I know of approximately 150 cases of this phenomenon.
The experiences which I have studied fall into three distinct categories:
1. The experiences of persons who were resuscitated after having been thought, adjudged, or pronounced clinically dead by their doctors.
2. The experiences of persons who, in the course of accidents or severe injury or illness, came very close to physical death.
3. The experiences of persons who, as they died, told them to other people who were present.
Later, these other people reported the content of the death experience to me.
From the vast amount of material that could be derived from 150 cases, selection obviously has occurred. Some of it has been purposeful.
For example, although I have found reports of the third type to complement and to agree very well with experiences of the first two types,
I have for the most part dropped them from consideration for two reasons.
First, it helps to reduce the number of cases studied to a more manageable level,
and second, it enables me to stick as close as possible to firsthand reports.
Thus, I have interviewed in great detail some fifty persons upon whose experiences I am able to report.
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