“Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.”
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The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.