If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.