Visitors at the End of Life: Finding Meaning and Purpose in Near-Death Phenomena

by Allan Kellehear

About 30 percent of hospice patients report a "visitation" by someone who is not there, a phenomenon known in end-of-life care as a deathbed vision. These visions can be of dead friends or family members and occur on average three days before death. Strikingly, individuals from wildly diverse geographic regions and religions--from New York to Japan to Moldova to Papua New Guinea--report similar visions. Appearances of our dead during serious illness,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231182155
• ISBN13: 9780231182157
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"