BICS Essay Contest
Life After Death Essay Contest Honorable Mentions
After the winners and runners-up had been chosen by the judges, there remained a significant number of high-quality essays that the judges continued to champion. At that stage, it was decided to create an Honorable Mentions category for another fifteen essays. Robert Bigelow then decided to award each essay author(s) $20,000, adding an additional $300,000 in prize money. This generous act brought the total prize money for all twenty-nine essays to $1,800,000, arguably an unprecedented level of financial support for this field of research.
![Chris Carter](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/chris_carter.jpg)
![Helane Wahbeh](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Helane-Wahbeh-1-scaled.jpg)
Arnaud Delorme, Ph.D.,
$20,000
Dean Radin, Ph.D.,
Helané Wahbeh, N.D., M.C.R.
![Peter Fenwick](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Peter_Fenwick.jpg)
Peter Fenwick, M.D.,
$20,000
Pier-Francesco Moretti, Ph.D.,
Vasileios Basios, Ph.D., Martin Redfern
![Christopher Kerr](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Chris_Kerr.jpg)
Christopher Kerr, M.D., Ph.D.
$20,000
![Robert Mays](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Robert_Mays.jpg)
Robert G. Mays, B.Sc.,
$20,000
Suzanne B. Mays, A.A.
![Walter Meyer zu Erpen](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Walter_Meyer.jpg)
Walter Meyer zu Erpen, B.A.
$20,000
![Vernon Neppe](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Vernon_Neppe.jpg)
Vernon Neppe, M.D., Ph.D.
$20,000
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Sam Parnia, M.D., Ph.D.,
$20,000
Tara Keshavarz Shirazi, B.S.
![Chris Roe](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Chris_Roe.jpg)
Chris A. Roe, Ph.D.,
$20,000
Callum E. Cooper, Ph.D.,
David Lorimer, M.A, Evelyn Elsaesser
![Andreas Sommer](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Andreas_Sommer_resized.jpg)
Andreas Sommer, Ph.D.
$20,000
![Steve Taylor](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Steve_Taylor.jpg)
Steve Taylor, Ph.D.
$20,000
![Akila Weerasekera](https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Akila_Weerasekera.jpg)
Akila Weerasekera, Ph.D.,
$20,000
Shanaka de Silva, M.A.
$
Prize Money