Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, collected stories from over 300 individuals in his book “The Truth in the Light.” “Here are a few examples. I didn’t completely grasp my body’s limits until last June, when I fell from my fire escape and had an out-of-body experience resembling those recorded by Peter Fenwick, a psychiatrist who studied end-of-life occurrences throughout his career.” Fenwick starb im November. 22 at 89.). I was at my housewarming party, standing on the fire escape with two friends, when I lost my balance and fell about 12 feet, landing on my head. I was unconscious for a few minutes. According to my friends, the paramedics arrived swiftly, removed a screen from a second-floor window, and carried me down on a stretcher. As they placed me in the ambulance, I felt myself rise above and observe the scene: the worried neighbors gathering in the street, the soft pink of sunset, and my body, looking small and distant on the stretcher while my roommate held my hand and my friend held my ankle. Their touch brought me back to awareness.
