"Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences" by Jeffrey Long, Paul Perry

A year ago MSNBC covered this author and his new book, which is just going to be released, this coming January, 2011, as a paperback: The near-death experience story is so common that it has become a bit of a cliché: A medical patient, hanging in a murky limbo between life and death, is drawn through a tunnel of bright light, meets their maker, and is told they must return to the land of living.
But that scenario played out letter-perfectly for Mary Jo Rapini. And her story is getting firm backing by a doctor who has studied some 1,300 near-death experiences. Medical doctor Jeffrey Long chronicles Rapini’s story, along with his own research, in a new book: “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.” In the book, Long contends his study shows that accounts of near-death experiences play out remarkably similarly among the people who have had them, crossing age and cultural boundaries to such a degree that they can’t be chalked up simply to everyone having seen the same Hollywood movie. Find that MSNBC report, here. See also: Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death.