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Summary:

"About 30 percent of hospice patients report to their palliative caretakers a "visitation" by someone who is not there: a phenomenon known in end-of-life care as a death-bed vision. These visions can be of dead friends or family members, and typically occur on average three days before death. Most interestingly, individuals from wildly diverse geographic regions and religions all report similar visions. Allan Kellehear, a medical anthropologist and expert on death and dying, has gathered data and conducted studies on these experiences across cultures, and found analogs between places as diverse as New York and Melanesia. (The visitations Kellehear will discuss are not the same as what are commonly called near-death experiences. NDEs usually contain life review, out-of-body sensations, and tunnel vision and occur when the percipient directly risks death.) Kellehear proposes an examination of these experiences across categorical types (types of visitations, from dead friends, family members, and even strangers) and in their analogs across cultures (from Westerners to countries like Papua New Guinea)"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Conflict and Context
• 1. Visitors Near Death: Are They "Real"?
• 2. Hallucinations
• 3. Perception
• pt. II Patterns of Custom and Solicitation
• 4. Greetings and Other Customs
• 5. Advice
• 6. Transformation
• 7. Gifts
• pt. III Pattern Directing the Patterns
• 8. Vigils.

Author/Creator:

Kellehear, Allan, 1955- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Visitors at the end of life: finding meaning and purpose in near-death phenomena [by Kellehear, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Visitors at the end of life [by Kellehear, A.] (New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] — ISBN 9780231182140; LCCN 2019057375)

Subjects:

Deathbed hallucinations

Near-death experiences

Spirits — Social aspects

Death — Social aspects

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

BF1063.D4 K455 2020eb

ISBNs:

0231544022
9780231544023 (electronic bk.)
9780231182140 (hardback) [Invalid]
9780231182157 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019057376

OCLC Numbers:

1145903370

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5974457 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16812775