Death Is Not Final
Topics: Health, Religion, Science
Public Release Date: May 07, 2014
If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body experience often characterized by remarkable visions and feelings of peace and joy, all while the physical body is close to death. To skeptics, there are more plausible, natural explanations, like oxygen deprivation. Is the prospect of an existence after death “real” and provable by science, or a construct of wishful thinking about our own mortality?
ARGUING YES:
Eben Alexander: Neurosurgeon, Author of ‘Proof of Heaven’
Raymond Moody: Medical Doctor, Author of ‘Life After Life’
ARGUING NO:
Sean Carroll: Physicist & Writer
Steven Novella: Academic Neurologist at the Yale School of Medicine
MODERATOR-IN-CHIEF:
John Donvan: Emmy award-winning journalist