2. I have found no one person who reports every single component of the composite experience.
Very many have reported most of them (that is, eight or more of the fifteen or so) and a few have reported up to twelve.
3. There is no one element of the composite experience which every single person has reported to me, which crops up in every narrative.
Nonetheless, a few of these elements come fairly close to being universal.
4. There is not one component of my abstract model which has appeared in only one account. Each element has shown up in many separate stories.
5. The order in which a dying person goes through the various stages briefly delineated above may vary from that given in my “theoretical model.”
To give one example, various persons have reported seeing the “being of light” before,
or at the same time, they left their physical bodies, and not as in the “model,” some time afterward.
However, the order in which the stages occur in the model is a very typical order, and wide variations are unusual.
6. How far into the hypothetical complete experience a dying person gets seems to depend on
whether or not the person actually underwent an apparent clinical death, and if so, on how long he was in this state.
In general, persons who were “dead” seem to report more florid, complete experiences than those who only came close to death,
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