April 10, 2005: NDEs and Dying - Dr. Raymond Moody
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Tue Nov 11 2025
Description: Art Bell opens with alarming reports about the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, where 213 cases have been recorded with a fatality rate approaching 100 percent, and warnings that the virus may be transmitting through the air. He also shares Australian gun control statistics showing dramatic increases in crime following a mandatory firearm surrender program. After open lines, Art welcomes Dr. Raymond Moody, the physician and philosopher who pioneered modern near-death experience research with his landmark book Life After Life.Dr. Moody describes a new wave of "empathic death experiences" in which bystanders at the bedside of dying patients report leaving their own bodies, seeing the deceased in spirit form, and witnessing reunions with departed relatives near a brilliant light. He attributes the rising number of these reports to changing hospital practices that now allow family members to remain present during the moment of death. He also discusses the phenomenon of terminal lucidity, where comatose patients suddenly become alert and communicative shortly before dying.An emergency physician calls in to share a case where a brain-dead cardiac arrest patient, upon recovery, described how rescuers could not get her stretcher through the restaurant kitchen, a detail independently confirmed by the responding paramedic. Dr. Moody also recounts the famous case of Pam Reynolds, whose brain was drained of blood for 40 minutes during aneurysm surgery yet who reported detailed observations of the procedure upon revival.
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