It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs).

[1][2] On the basis of his collection of cases, Moody identified a common set of elements in NDEs:[3] Life After Life sold more than 13 million copies,[4] was translated into a dozen foreign languages[5] and became an international best seller, which made the subject of NDEs popular and opened the way for many other studies.

[6][7] Moody's alleged evidence for an afterlife was heavily criticized as flawed, both logically and empirically.

"[9] The philosopher and skeptic Paul Kurtz has written that Moody's evidence for the NDE is based on personal interviews and anecdotal accounts and there has been no statistical analyses of his data.

According to Kurtz, "there is no reliable evidence that people who report such experiences have died and returned, or that consciousness exists separate from the brain or body.