Nahm (2012) and Nahm, Greyson, E. W. Kelly, and Haraldsson (2012) collected examples of terminal lucidity in connection with brain abscesses, tumors, strokes, meningitis, and affective disorders. Autopsies revealed damage to the brain extensive enough to have made it impossible for consciousness to manifest according to the brain-production theory, and materialists do not have a good explanation for what happens in these cases.

