Prepare for an intellectual and controversial journey into the unknown. A distinguished group of medical researchers at a major private university undertake a project to examine the death phenomenon on the basis that medical and legal death definitions have changed over the centuries. Although much research has been done about life at conception and after birth, little has been done to explore life after death using scientifc methods of research. What these researchers find shakes the foundation of current understanding of death of the human body, and causes an uproar in the news media and among religious leaders.