Near-death experiences involve clinically dead individuals perceiving verifiable real-world events

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Clinical and systematic reviews of cardiac arrest survivors provide documented instances where individuals reported veridical awareness and perceptions of real-world events during periods of clinical death.

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The retrieved literature contains specific studies and systematic reviews documenting cases where near-death experiences included verifiable perceptions during cardiac arrest. While such occurrences are infrequent, peer-reviewed sources like Parnia et al. (2014) and systematic reviews on veridical NDEs (2022) provide documented evidence supporting the claim, with no papers in the provided set refuting it.

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Veridical Near-Death-Experiences: a systematic review

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Patrizio Tressoldi. Veridical Near-Death-Experiences: a systematic review. 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jm2dk

A systematic review of veridical near-death perceptions identified clinical cases reporting visual and auditory perceptions during cardiac arrest or general anesthesia.

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AWARE-AWAreness during REsuscitation-a prospective study.

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Sam Parnia, Ken Spearpoint, Gabriele de Vos, Peter Fenwick, Diana Goldberg, Jie Yang, Jiawen Zhu, Katie Baker, Hayley Killingback, Paula McLean, Melanie Wood, A Maziar Zafari, Neal Dickert, Roland Beisteiner, Fritz Sterz, Michael Berger, Celia Warlow, Siobhan Bullock, Salli Lovett, Russell Metcalfe Smith McPara, Sandra Marti-Navarette, Pam Cushing, Paul Wills, Kayla Harris, Jenny Sutton, Anthony Walmsley, Charles D Deakin, Paul Little, Mark Farber, Bruce Greyson, Elinor R Schoenfeld. AWARE-AWAreness during REsuscitation-a prospective study.. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.09.004

A multi-center prospective study on awareness during resuscitation found that a small percentage of cardiac arrest survivors reported explicit recall of seeing and hearing actual events during periods when cerebral function was clinically undetectable.

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judged → SUPPORTED · 7531 Jul 2026

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