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Peter Brooke Cadogan Fenwick 25 May — 22 November was a British neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist who is known for his studies of epilepsy and end-of-life phenomena. Fenwick was born in Nairobi in , where his family was living at the time. Fenwick was a senior lecturer at King's College, London , where he worked as a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry.

Fenwick was the president of the Horizon Research Foundation, [ 10 ] an organisation that supports research into end-of-life experiences. Fenwick was part of the editorial board for a number of journals, including the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry , the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the Journal of Epilepsy and Behaviour.

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Fenwick's interest in near-death experiences was piqued when he read Raymond Moody 's book Life After Life. Initially skeptical of Moody's anecdotal evidence, Fenwick reassessed his opinion after a discussion with one of his own patients, who described a near-death experience very similar to that of Moody's subjects. He was criticised by some in the medical community for arguing that human consciousness can survive bodily death.

The plain fact is that none of us understands these phenomena. As for the soul and life after death, they are still open questions, though I myself suspect that NDEs are part of the same continuum as mystical experiences. Fenwick and his wife are co-authors of The Art of Dying , a study of the spiritual needs of near-death patients.