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Dr. Sam Parnia

Dr. Sam Parnia

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Dr. Sam Parnia is a critical care physician and director of resuscitation research at NYU Langone Medical Center, recognized as one of the world's leading scientific investigators of near-death experiences and consciousness during cardiac arrest. As a guest on late-night radio, his AWARE study and his book Erasing Death have brought unprecedented clinical rigor to the question of what happens to human consciousness at the threshold of death.

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March 4, 2006: Near Death Experiences - Dr. Sam Parnia

Mar 4, 2006
2h 29m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Sam Parnia, a fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Cornell University and founder of the Consciousness Research Group, for an in-depth exploration of what happens at the moment of death. Dr. Parnia explains that the brain ceases electrical activity within approximately 10 seconds o...