At the Hour of Death

At the Hour of Death was hailed as the earliest scientific investigation of life after death. It was a four-year study involving fifty thousand terminally ill patients observed just before death by one thousand doctors and nurses in the United States and India.



The conclusions reached by the authors are compelling and optimistic. Doctors found that the patients had startling experience - such as visions and elevated moods - that were not due to their medical conditions, and the basic experience was the same for both cultures. Universal feelings of serenity and peace and awareness of another reality indicate that perhaps death should not feared after all.