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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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I Conflict and Context
- 1 Visitors Near Death Are They “Real”?
- 2 Hallucinations
- 3 Perception
- PART II Patterns of Custom and Solicitation
- 4 Greetings and Other Customs
- 5 Advice
- 6 Transformation
- 7 Gifts
- PART III A Pattern Directing the Patterns
- 8 Vigils
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index