Hayden Ebbern, Sean Mulligan, and Barry L. Beyerstein

It has long been known that the brain continues to work for a few minutes after the heart and lungs have stopped, argue Hayden Ebbern, Sean Mulligan, and Barry L. Beyerstein in the following viewpoint. They contend that near-death experiences (NDEs) provide insight into the brain’s functioning during this interval. These experiences, they maintain, are simply hallucinations and do not prove that life after death exists. At the time that this viewpoint was written, Ebbern was an undergraduate in psychology and Mulligan was a graduate student in biological sciences at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Beyerstein is a professor of psychology and a researcher at the Brain Behavior Laboratory at Simon Fraser University.

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