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From BBC: Study into near-death experiences:

Doctors at 25 UK and US hospitals will study 1,500 survivors to see if people with no heartbeat or brain activity can have “out of body” experiences.

Which is great that they are keeping an open mind. “Study” is probably an overstatement though; from the article it sounds like it will just involve building high shelves into resuscitation rooms, and putting pictures on them that can only be seen from above. The doctors “study” of the patient will probably go something like “So… Seen any interesting photos lately?”.