In hospital, Dr Sam Parnia faces life and death issues every day. Through his work in critical care, he became very interested in some of his patients' accounts of the experiences that they had while clinically at the point of death. He began to collect these stories and read all the latest research on the subject. He then set about performing his own series of experiments, and his work has culminated in this extraordinary book - exploring the answers to two of our most fundamental questions about the nature of existence: what really happens when we die, and what exactly is consciousness?
253pp, 152mm x 234mm, illus. in b&w, softback, 2008