Deathbed Visions: What do we see at the edge of life? As the body begins to fail and consciousness loosens its grip, many people report experiences that are anything but ordinary. In the final hours or moments before death, the dying often describe vivid visions: encounters with long-dead loved ones, journeys, presences, lights, messages—scenes that feel emotionally charged, coherent, and deeply real. These are known as deathbed visions. Drawing on over sixty years of scientific research, we will explore the recurring patterns behind these extraordinary experiences. We will introduce four common categories of deathbed visions and examine the leading naturalistic explanations offered by neuroscience, psychology, and medicine—asking where they succeed, and where they fall short. From there, we turn to a more provocative question: why has deathbed vision research itself so often been treated as scientifically suspect?