An insight into the afterlife? Informing patients about near death experiences

1. Patients often feel better able to confide in nurses than doctors on 'difficult' subjects. 2. Research has rejected conventional hallucinatory effects as a conclusive explanation for NDEs. 3. Nurses may legitimately agree that current research at least points to the possibility of continuation of life after death. 4. Research on energy conservation, thermodynamics and behaviour of subatomic particles suggests there is a wavelength of reality beyond the reach of normal sensory perception.