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b'There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What\\u2019s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with death, or are we transported to another plane of existence? First-hand accounts of people who claim to have visited heaven are offered as proof of an afterlife. Now the author of one bestseller admits that his story was fabricated.\\nWe\\u2019ll look at the genre of \\u201cheaven tourism\\u201d to see if it has anything to say about the possible existence of the hereafter, and why the idea of an afterlife seriously influences how we live our lives on Earth.\\nAlso, a neurologist describes what is going on in the brain during near-death and other out-of-body experiences.\\nIt\\u2019s Skeptic Check, our monthly look at critical thinking \\u2026 but don\\u2019t take our word for it!\\n Guests:\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Ben Radford \\u2013 Paranormal investigator, research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and author of the Discovery News article, \\u201cWhy People Believed Boy\\u2019s \\u2018Visit to Heaven\\u2019 Story\\u201d\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Greg Garrett \\u2013 Professor of English at Baylor University, writer on books, culture and religion for the Huffington Post, and author of Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination \\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Steven Novella \\u2013 Professor of neurology at Yale University School of Medicine and host of the \\u201cSkeptic\\u2019s Guide to the Universe\\u201d podcast\\nOriginally Aired May 24, 2015\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'