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Line 1: {{Short description|Phenomenon reported as occurring during near-death experiences}} '''Life review'''{{efn|The phenomenon has been called life review,<ref name=1977paper>{{Cite journal | The experience often changes the way people view their life in a profound way.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Donnelly|first=Laura|date=2017-01-29|title=Your life really does flash before your eyes before you die, study suggests|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/29/life-really-does-flash-eyes-die-study-suggests/|access-date=2020-09-27|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Line 8: ==History== In the 1790, British naval officer [[Francis Beaufort]] nearly drowned and reported experiencing a life review. In 1847, a letter by Beaufort recalling the incident was published in the autobiography of [[Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_27938 | isbn=978-0-665-27938-6 | title=An auto-biographical memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., late of the admiralty [microform] : Including reflections, observations, and reminiscences at home and abroad, from early life to advanced age | date=1847 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/dec/11/scienceandnature.highereducation | title=You must remember this | newspaper=The Guardian | date=11 December 2004 | last1=Rose | first1=Steven }}</ref> Wrote Beaufort: <blockquote> Line 21: " 1853 "The account given by a distinguished British naval officer of his own case is familiar. While in the water he said every event of his life flashed like lightning across his mind." 1855: "As she sunk beneath the surface a thousand burning thoughts of home -- her mother, all the incidents of her life, flashed through her brain."<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=OIBaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA507 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=UONDAQAAMAAJ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> 1869: "I was nothing before me but a watery grave -- all my past life flashed across my mind. I had heard of such a thing in the case of people when near drowning, but I never before experienced it."<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=MlRnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA247 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> 1897 Psychological schema<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=BkwMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA102 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> 1907 <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=nwU5AQAAMAAJ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> In 1929-30, papers ran a comical anecdote: "Johnes was relating his narrow escape from drowning to some friends. 'As I went down for the third time,' he said, 'all the past events of my life flashed before my eyes.' 'Is that so?' asked one of his listerners. 'Well did you see yourself borrowing that fiver you've owed me for six months?'"<ref>https://archive.org/details/neworleanschristianadvocate1930m/page/n22/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> Finally I tripped over my high heels and went head over heels into the sand. My whole life flashed before my eyes as I lay there, like they say it does when you are drowning"<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=YnccAQAAMAAJ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>--> ==See also== * [[Aerial toll house]] * [[Clinical death]] * [[Flashback (psychology)|Flashback]] * [[Out-of-body experiences]] * [[Adrenaline#Memory|Effects of adrenaline on human memory]] | |||