title: Near-death experiences in India. A preliminary report.
abstract: The authors report some features of 16 cases of near-death experiences that they investigated in India. After presenting brief accounts of four such experiences, the authors describe and discuss features in which the Indian cases differ from a larger sample of American cases. They note that some of these features seem to be culture-bound, but they caution against accepting this observation as adequate evidence that the case derive only from culture-bound beliefs. Some differences may derive from the effects of a person's beliefs on what actually does happen after death, and some different features may, on closer examination, be found to be basically similar in nature if not in detail.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010268:Parapsychology; D014481:United States