Persistence of Attitude Changes After Near-Death Experiences
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease March 29, 2022 B. Greyson 22 citations
People who have had near-death experiences report lasting changes in their attitudes toward life and death. A study of 63 participants, average age 46 at the start, found that these attitude changes, measured by the Life Changes Inventory, remained stable over two decades. The depth of the near-death experience, assessed with the NDE Scale, was typical of such experiences. Scores on the Life Changes Inventory showed significant shifts in attitudes at both the beginning of the study and twenty years later, with no significant change between the two time points. The persistence of these attitude changes appears to be unusual compared to other transformative experiences.