near-death experiences

Fourteen-year-old Elanor Moss's suicide attempt leads her family toward a new start in New York, but tragedy strikes before they arrive and while grieving and recovering Ellie meets Madeline Torus, a mysterious girl who becomes more than a best friend--and worst enemy.

Betty Eadie recounts her near-death experience at age 31 after undergoing surgery.

Recounts the experience of Baptist minister Don Piper, who was pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident and experienced the glories of heaven for ninety minutes, but who miraculously came back to life, where he endured a long and painful recovery.

"Explores out-of-body (OBE) and near-death experiences (NDE), including several reported examples of OBEs, the history of OBEs, and research and experiments with OBEs"--Provided by publisher.

Provides an account of four-year-old Colton Burpo's supposed trip to heaven while having an emergency appendectomy. Reveals what Colton, several months after the surgery, claims he saw and heard while outside his body, as told to his reverend father, Todd Burpo.

Jim is run over by a car and has an afterlife experience where he meets Slayers, Mourners, and Grave Walkers, who give him the chance to return to Earth with the knowledge of what happens when we die.

Examines the changes that take place in people who have had near-death experiences.