This book is about how, when, and why our dead visit us. Allan Kellehear--a medical sociologist and expert on death, dying, and palliative care--has gathered da

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 v

Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherwo

Despite widespread skepticism on the matter, a significant number of people today have stories of religious experience—moments of inexplicable terror or raptu

This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China. By collecting and examining hundreds of interviews with peopl