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