near-death experiences

Discusses such paranormal phenomena as leaving the body, reincarnation, and near-death experiences.

Elderly Elner Shimfissle's fall from a tree while picking figs sets off a chain of events that leaves the residents of small Elmwood Springs, Missouri, pondering the meaning of life.

Interviews with many people who claim to have had near-death experiences offer a review of this phenomenon and face death and develop self-knowledge.

Having had a near-death experience in the accident that killed his younger sister, eleven-year-old Will tries to cope with the situation by writing her letters.

Ji-Hae, who is in love with her high school classmate, Seung-Hyu, tries desperately to win his affection, causing Seung-Hyu to accidentally push her down the stairs; when Ji-Hae awakens in the afterlife, she is given a chance by the keepers to make things right in her past life.

After she has a near-death experience, teenager Olive Bell's perfect life in Vista Valley, California, suddenly does not seem so perfect. She starts attending Near-Death Society meetings and meets Nick, with whom she has a whirlwind romance and begins to live again, until Nick reveals a secret that threatens their love.

Describes various categories of near-death experiences and provides information about how scientists study unknown phenomena.

Faced with an impossible choice between the forces of Light and the boy she loves, ghostly Amelia decides to take her afterlife into her own hands and fight back.

Seventeen-year-old Emery Land experiences seizures during which she seems to travel through space and time to a mysterious town, and one day she escapes the hospital where a team of doctors monitor her and travels to Esperanza, the town she visits during her episodes. In Esperanza, Emery meets Asher Clarke, whose desire to perform good Samaritan acts to atone for the death of a loved one is connected to Emery.