Life After Life

Blurb

Life After Life is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences. The book presents the author's composite account of what it is like to die. On the basis of his collection of cases, Moody identified a common set of elements in NDEs:
an overwhelming feeling of peace and well-being, including freedom from pain.
the impression of being located outside one's physical body.
floating or drifting through darkness, sometimes described as a tunnel.
becoming aware of a golden light.
encountering and perhaps communicating with a "being of light".
having a rapid succession of visual images of one's past.
experiencing another world of much beauty.
Life After Life sold more than 13 million copies, was translated into a dozen foreign languages and became an international best seller, which made the subject of NDEs popular and opened the way for many other studies.