Western near-death experiences are the most studied. Though details and descriptions vary across cultures, the overall tenor of the experience is remarkably similar. Their stories are similar to those told in dozens if not hundreds of books and in thousands of interviews with “NDErs,” or “experiencers,” as they call themselves, in the past few decades. (The subject of The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, published in 2010, recently admitted that he made it all up.) Neal, who had her NDE while submerged in a river after a kayaking accident-have spent 94 and 36 weeks, respectively, on the list. Two recent books by doctors- Proof of Heaven, by Eben Alexander, who writes about a near-death experience he had while in a week-long coma brought on by meningitis, and To Heaven and Back, by Mary C. The book it was based on, published in 2010, has sold some 10 million copies and spent 206 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. The 2014 movie Heaven Is for Real, about a young boy who told his parents he had visited heaven while he was having emergency surgery, grossed a respectable $91 million in the United States.
N ear-death experiences have gotten a lot of attention lately.
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