On the talk-show circuit and the bestseller list, the tales are legion. And Elvis Presley takes her gently by the hand. As sophisticated medical technology has permitted more and more people to journey back from the brink of death, such seemingly mystical reports have become almost commonplace. No matter what the nature of the experience, it alters some lives. Alcoholics find themselves unable to imbibe.
Hardened criminals opt for a life of helping others.
Such dramatic changes have piqued the imagination of those searching for evidence of the mystical. Nancy Evans Bush, president emeritus of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, says the experience is revelatory. They know . Stories about strange events in the borderland between life and death are hardly new. Near-death experiences aren't fresh to popular literature, either.