Richard Waverly was a 37-year-old history teacher. One day he was driving to
skipping breakfast. He was also
work, tired after a late night and hungry
in a bad mood following a quarrel with his wife. At a busy junction, he lost control,
drove into a telegraph pole and was thrown through the windscreen. The
5 paramedics said he was dead before he hit the pavement.
This story is fictitious, but when psychologist Jesse Bering narrated it to
volunteers, he discovered something you probably couldn't make up. Asked
questions イ "do you think Richard knows he is dead?" and "do you think he
wishes he had told his wife he loved her before he died?", large numbers of volunteers
answered yes. For many, who had already professed a belief in the afterlife, this
was no big surprise. However even people who totally rejected the idea of life after
Heath-so-called extinctivists also answered yes.
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