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.


Arnaud Delorme, Ph.D.,
$20,000
Dean Radin, Ph.D.,
Helané Wahbeh, N.D., M.C.R.

Peter Fenwick, M.D.,
$20,000
Pier-Francesco Moretti, Ph.D.,
Vasileios Basios, Ph.D., Martin Redfern

Christopher Kerr, M.D., Ph.D.
$20,000

Robert G. Mays, B.Sc.,
$20,000
Suzanne B. Mays, A.A.

Walter Meyer zu Erpen, B.A.
$20,000

Vernon Neppe, M.D., Ph.D.
$20,000

Sam Parnia, M.D., Ph.D.,
$20,000
Tara Keshavarz Shirazi, B.S.

Chris A. Roe, Ph.D.,
$20,000
Callum E. Cooper, Ph.D.,
David Lorimer, M.A, Evelyn Elsaesser

Andreas Sommer, Ph.D.
$20,000

Steve Taylor, Ph.D.
$20,000

Akila Weerasekera, Ph.D.,
$20,000
Shanaka de Silva, M.A.
$
Prize Money