droldham I publish therefor I am THE RESURRECTION What is life? What is death? Is it really one or the other? Robert Gordon thought he knew. Maybe there was a connection, one he could describe, understand and maybe even use to reduce the fear of dying. Could an understanding of neurochemicals in the dying brain bring us joy rather than fear at the time of death? As a neurosurgeon and neurochemist, Robert was close. Only two problems. The Food and Drug Administration (I’m from the government and I’m here to help you) was trying to stop him from further experiments. Here he was on the verge of demonstrating that the death of the body had nothing to do with the essence of our eternal life and the FDA was stopping his work because they were worried about “side effects”! How stupid; side effects when he was so close to erasing mankind’s terror of death! Then there was the problem of Antar Chandra. Not just a simple competition of two scientists for the Nobel Prize, for the central secret of everlasting life, but something more sinister. He suspected that Antar was trying to kill him. Robert could compete with anyone and Antar didn’t scare him but the mob was involved. They smelled money and both Robert and Antar were now in danger. The Resurrection looks at the interface of life and death. With brilliant insight, Robert has discovered the chemical basis in the connection of life and death. By listening carefully to the “dreams” of patients who have entered the tunnel of death and returned, he finally knew how to connect the pure white light of the near death experience to Substance R, the neurochemical of the afterlife. But could he finish his work with the wrath of the FDA and the guns of the mob threatening his life? Could he get the answer before they destroyed him? The Resurrection leads the reader through the complex world of medicine and brain chemistry only to have the government and the mob as the main obstacles to man’s search for eternal life.