Born in Singapore in 1959 to Indian parents, raised in Hong Kong. Trilingual childhood, successful corporate career, a conventional life — until, in her early forties, she was diagnosed with stage-four lymphoma.
Four years of deterioration followed. On 2 February 2006, organs failing, she slipped into a coma. In her account of what happened next she moved into an expanded field of awareness in which she encountered her deceased father, a clear sense of the purpose of her life, and a choice of whether to return. She returned. Within five weeks every tumour in her body was gone; within a few months she was discharged.
Her medical records and physician statements are documented. Dying to Be Me (2012) became a New York Times bestseller. She speaks and writes from California now. The NDE literature is vast, but hers is one of the clearest and most reported cases in the modern record.
Dying to Be Me
Anita Moorjani's miraculous recovery from end-stage cancer after a profound near-death experience — the most powerful first-person account of how love and self-acceptance are the deepest medicine.