If
you know brain tumor victims or caregivers, or read about brain tumor victims or
follow brain tumor bloggers, you know that there aren’t always happy endings.
If fact, many of the endings are downright miserable. I talked with one brain
tumor support group organizer who, in the space of a year, lost something like
90% of her group.
As much as we try to
block, sidestep or parry death’s tentacles from penetrating our daily thoughts, in
this business death isn’t far from anybody’s thoughts. It’s
with that cheery thought that I recently read Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Eben
Alexander, M.D.
This
is a near-death-experience (NDE) book. Actually, near-death-experience is probably
a misnomer. For all intents and purposes, Dr. Alexander was certainly brain
dead (literally) and his family was just dancing around the idea of pulling the
plug when –Eureka! – he makes a miraculous recovery.
Actually
his recovery is so surprising, given the myriad of medical folks who thought
him beyond any sort of recovery, I’ve begun to think of it as Miraculous
Recovery² (or MR2 for short).
Dr.
Alexander was an academic neurosurgeon for 25 years, including 15 years at the
Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hopitals and Harvard Medical School in
Boston, so his perspective on a NDE or even a MR2 is a bit more notable than
the common, found-around-the-house NDE.
He
recovers with an incredible and uplifting story of the afterlife. Whether you believe it
or not is up to you, but I found the book articulate, provocative and full of
scientific details (most of which I didn’t understand).
Here’s
a link to his book: http://www.amazon.com/Proof-Heaven-Neurosurgeons-Journey-Afterlife/dp/1451695195/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367176452&sr=1-1&keywords=proof+of+heaven
And
here’s a link the website for his book: http://www.lifebeyonddeath.net/
And
here’s a link to his book’s website: http://www.lifebeyonddeath.net/
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