Synopsis
Tonight's documentary explores the theory that near-death experiences actually come from beyond the brain. New clinical research is daring to suggest the impossible: that NDEs are evidence that the mind can live on after the brain has stopped functioning. Narrated by Tom Wilkinson.
- Programme: The Day I Died
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2003
- Religious Education
Licence: ERA Licence required
Free to watch for UK schools, colleges and universities with an ERA Licence
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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