Fact & Fiction About Near-Death Experiences

The last time that famed ball dropped in Times Square, Americans seemed hooked on heaven. A glut of books purporting near-death experiences flooded the marketplace. “Heaven is For Real,” a film based on a massively popular book about a boy who claimed to have visited heaven, brought in nearly $100 at the box office. And a small faith-based film company invested an estimated $5 million to begin production on “90 Minutes in Heaven,” a movie based on another book about a near-death experience. Heaven was having its heyday.