Dr Penny Satori worked as a nurse in a hospital for 21 years, 17 of those years were spent caring for people in intensive care. One of her patients had a profound effect on her, she was caring for him the night before he died; he had a prolonged and uncomfortable death – something that Penny found so upsetting she considered giving up nursing. Instead she searched for courses on how to care for patients dying in intensive care, when she came up empty she began reading all she could about death.
Part of her research led her to Near Death Experiences (NED), her rational scientific brain said that these were just patients hallucinating, but curiosity prevailed and after many years of collecting data and analysing it she was awarded a PHD.
In her own works Dr Satori says “There have been many misconceptions about the research that I have conducted. The biggest misconception is that I am investigating life after death. I would like to make it clear that this is not what I have been researching. I am trying to gain a greater understanding of the dying process so that care for dying patients can be improved. This has relevance to us all – we are all going to die and I know I don’t want to go through what that man I looked after went through.”
“What I found with my research was that some people reported experiences while they were deeply unconscious or their hearts had stopped beating. How can people, whose hearts have stopped and by current definitions are clinically dead, report clear, lucid, well-structured experiences when their brains are not fully functional?”
In her book – The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences, she explores what a brush with death can teach us about how we live…The book challenges our preconceptions about the effects that near-death experiences have on the living. The book looks beyond the science through case studies, anecdotal evidence and documented research to demonstrate that NDE have much insight to empower us to live more fulfilled and meaningful lives.
“When I began my research I naively thought I’d have the answers to all of my questions. The reality is that I don’t have all the answers and my research has raised far more questions than it has answered. I have no option other than to remain open minded and explore all possibilities that may lead me to the answers.”
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