Near-death experiences
Jorge Andrés Delgado-Ron · 2026
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Description
Jorge Andrés Delgado-Ron writes a 2026 commentary arguing that near-death experiences deserve a respectful place in care. These subjective episodes occur in people close to death, including a share of critically ill patients. They feature panoramic memories, peace, meetings with deceased relatives, and out-of-body perceptions. Unlike delirium or hallucination, patients remember them clearly for years.
The commentary notes that vivid, lucid experiences have been documented during cardiac arrest and anesthesia. At such times measurable brain activity should be flat or disorganized, which biomedical models struggle to explain. Rather than leaving patients worse off, the experiences improve mental functioning, reducing fear of death and increasing empathy, kindness, and meaning. Distress, when it comes, follows dismissal by doctors or family. Delgado-Ron urges doctors not to pathologize these reports but to accept them and give patients a nonjudgmental space to work through the event's meaning.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jorge Andrés Delgado-Ron |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |