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In the autumn of 2008, 25 UK and US hospitals began participation in a 3 year study, coordinated by Dr. Sam Parnia and Southampton University.

Following on from the work of Pim van Lommel in the Netherlands, the study aims to examine near-death experiences in 1, 500 cardiac arrest survivors and so determine whether people without a heartbeat or brain activity can have documentable out-of-body experiences.