Near‐Death Experiences and Attempted Suicide
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior March 1, 1981 Bruce Greyson 55 citations
While attempted suicide generally increases the risk of later completed suicide, preliminary data and psychodynamic hypotheses suggest that serious suicide attempts followed by a transcendental near-death experience (NDE) may instead reduce subsequent overt suicide risk, even though NDEs can appear to romanticize death. The authors propose further studies on NDEs and their influence on suicidal ideation to better understand self-destructive urges and develop new suicide prevention strategies.