It is the great equalizer. You can have an Oscar on your mantle, a platinum record on your wall, or a billion dollars in the bank, but none of it grants immunity from the final curtain. Yet, for a select group of Hollywood’s elite, that curtain was pulled back, only to fall again.
says the incident killed any fear of death she once had. To her, death now feels "very near and very safe." Tracy Morgan : A Divine Conversation Comedian Tracy Morgan
It is the "Aftermath Effect." In almost every case, the celebrity returns to the land of the living with a recalibrated moral compass.
We are obsessed with celebrities because they seem to live larger lives than the rest of us. They fly higher and shine brighter. But their stories of near-death remind us that they land just as hard.
Neurologists argue that NDEs are simply the brain’s last gasp: a flood of endorphins, carbon dioxide buildup, or oxygen deprivation causing vivid hallucinations. The "tunnel" is the collapse of peripheral vision. The "life review" is a memory dump.