Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study
Near-death experiences (NDEs) can occur during episodes of unconsciousness from life-threatening conditions, such as sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs). This study is based on interviews with patients who had an NDE. The interviews were analyzed with phenomenological hermeneutical method for their lived...
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Near-death experiences (NDEs) can occur during episodes of unconsciousness from life-threatening conditions, such as sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs). This study is based on interviews with patients who had an NDE. The interviews were analyzed with phenomenological hermeneutical method for their lived experiences and the meaning for the view of life and death. Four participants were interviewed 10 weeks after their NDE. Four themes emerged: being on the other side, in another dimension; not dreaming, this is a real experience; being in a non-physical condition without my body; and comparing views of life and death before and after the NDEs. The participants described the NDEs as an experience of another realm as non-physical in nature and existing beyond space and time. This study shows that this experience of another state of being, through the lived experiences of NDEs, gave the participants an entirely new meaning on life and death. To them, death was no longer viewed as an end but a passage into something else and that life continues after death. This realization instantly changed their worldview.
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| spelling | doaj-art-a6f04ad84c8845dcb9c02cde0b2e50ca2025-08-20T03:56:55ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare2532-20442023-01-016310.4081/qrmh.2022.10241Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical studyHans Zingmark0Anetth Granberg-Axell1Department of Internal Medicine, Halland Hospital, Halmstad; Department of Research & Development, Region Halland, HalmstadDepartment of Research & Development, Region Halland, Halmstad; Institute for Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University Near-death experiences (NDEs) can occur during episodes of unconsciousness from life-threatening conditions, such as sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs). This study is based on interviews with patients who had an NDE. The interviews were analyzed with phenomenological hermeneutical method for their lived experiences and the meaning for the view of life and death. Four participants were interviewed 10 weeks after their NDE. Four themes emerged: being on the other side, in another dimension; not dreaming, this is a real experience; being in a non-physical condition without my body; and comparing views of life and death before and after the NDEs. The participants described the NDEs as an experience of another realm as non-physical in nature and existing beyond space and time. This study shows that this experience of another state of being, through the lived experiences of NDEs, gave the participants an entirely new meaning on life and death. To them, death was no longer viewed as an end but a passage into something else and that life continues after death. This realization instantly changed their worldview. https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/qrmh/article/view/10241Near dead experiencesLived experiencesworldviewsudden cardiac arrest |
| spellingShingle | Hans Zingmark Anetth Granberg-Axell Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare Near dead experiences Lived experiences worldview sudden cardiac arrest |
| title | Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study |
| title_full | Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study |
| title_fullStr | Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study |
| title_short | Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study |
| title_sort | near death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest a phenomenological and hermeneutical study |
| topic | Near dead experiences Lived experiences worldview sudden cardiac arrest |
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