Document Type : علمی- ترویجی

Authors

1 Assistant professor of psychology department and faculty member of Amin University of Police Sciences

2 studeant

Abstract

The aim of this study was to experience the lived experience of death anxiety before and after returning to life. The statistical population of the study was the experimenters of the approximate death phenomenon present in the TV program Life after Life, from which 10 interviews were selected and recorded. The obtained data were analyzed by Maxqda 2022 software with 7-clays approach and extracted from the interviews of 16 main themes and 37 sub-themes. Findings showed that most experimenters experienced approximate death in situations of illness and in life dissatisfaction. The components of seeing light, meeting the dead, sublime and spiritual beings, lack of authority, intensifying the senses of sight, experiencing pleasant and unpleasant feelings, perceiving events around the body, zooming in and looking from all angles, and reviewing life are the most important components of explaining lived experience. He was an experimenter. Phenomena such as water, light, time, and place, and the apparent awe of the dead had also changed in relation to the terrestrial nature of the phenomena. In addition, the results showed that life had a new meaning for these people, and that fear, anxiety, and neglect of death had disappeared after returning to life.

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