Long is the author of Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences, which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.
[2] He later practiced medicine in Gallup, New Mexico, before taking a position at the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in Houma, Louisiana, in 2009.
[3][4][5][6] The foundation maintains a website, also launched in 1998, and a database of more than 5000 cases, which is the world's largest collection of near-death reports.
[8] Long is the author of the book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences, a New York Times Best Seller.
[10][11][12][13][14][3][4] In 2009 Long contributed to The handbook of near-death experiences: thirty years of investigation, published by Praeger.