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Children and NDEs

Perhaps the most interesting area of the near death experience, relates to those occurring in children, many of whom have often been too young to have any real concept of death or an afterlife. Such experiences in children have been studied extensively by Dr Melvin Morse an American Paediatrician. He has looked at many critically ill children admitted to the intensive care unit and found that some of them had described near death experiences. The youngest case described in the medical literature is that which occurred in a six-month old baby who then recalled the story when he was four.

In this article it was said that this baby had been admitted to the intensive care unit of Massachusetts General Hospital with severe kidney failure. He survived and was discharged home with his parents. As the child was growing up his parents noticed that whenever he went through a tunnel he would have a panic attack. This happened for example if they were driving through a tunnel or when the child was playing with his siblings and went through a playground tunnel. Eventually at the age of four his parents had attempted to explain the imminent death of his grandfather, when he had said that he had died and explained his experience from this stay in the ICU.

Science of Near-Death Experience:

Colleague, Jeffrey Long, compiled cases of near death experience that had been sent to him over the years.

Published, January 2010, the book has been featured on some of the major media outlets in the United States including the Today Show as well as on CNN.com and reached the New York Times Bestseller list almost immediately after it was released.

We would like to wish Jeffery Long all the best with his book and his work and we encourage our readers to explore the incredible work that has gone into his book.

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