http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1842627,00.html?cnn=yes

AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) is a collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S., and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest in order to explore the process of dying though analysis of out-of-body experiences.

This shit is FASCINATING and potentially paradigm shifting.  I’ll be following the shit out of this study.