Life After Life: How Raymond Moody Changed the Way the World Thinks About Death
Long before near-death experiences became viral stories or late-night podcast topics, death was treated in Western medicine as a hard stop. The heart stops, the brain shuts down, consciousness ends. Anything reported beyond that line was dismissed as hallucination, wishful thinking, or the brain’s final misfire.
Then a quiet philosophy professor with medical training did something radical: he listened.
His name was Raymond Moody, and in 1975 he published a book that permanently altered the global conversation about dying, consciousness, and the possibility of an afterlife. That book was Life After Life—and its impact has never fully faded.
Moody did not set out to prove heaven. He didn’t preach religion or claim certainty. Instead, he documented something medicine had largely ignored: c...
