Iris Giesler searched the published record for cases of death by natural processes in old age. She found ten cases in which natural deaths (deaths other than by accident or murder) came at age sixty or later and noted that in six of these ten cases, the previous persons were devout or pious Buddhists. This accords with Stevenson’s observation (2001, p. 214) that the previous persons in several of the natural-death cases in his collection were unusually spiritual. Many of the previous persons in Giesler’s sample were practiced in meditation (which in Asian cultures, from which the majority of
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