ARTHUR C CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE PART 2
Right - let's get started with the next bunch of episodes in this epic 90's slice of Fortean Television. EPISODE 10 - AT DEATH'S DOOR This episode deals with the possibility of life after death, thankfully it doesn't get too existential or metaphysical, instead it chooses to concentrate on the creepier end of the scale. We get the story of a college lecturer who by all accounts was a bit of an arsehole who had a vision of being tortured by Demons from Hell whilst undergoing a near death experience - this vision shat him up so much that he totally changed his outlook on life and became a priest. Certainly gives you pause for thought. We also get the story of a little girl who nearly died and claimed to meet her dead grandmother in "Heaven" and other tales of near death out of body experiences. Arthur posits that these experiences may well be hallucinations induced by an Oxygen starved brain but even he's gracious enough to credit that all still may not be ...
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