This book by Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick presents “accounts by the dying and those who have been with the dying in their final hours” in order to help readers to see and understand death as a process, not a single end moment. The evidence gathered here “suggests we are more than brain function, and that something—soul or spirit or consciousness—will continue in some form or another for a while at least.” The ultimate goal being that with understanding we may all be helped in getting closer to having a “good death.”
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The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die
“Like many Westerners at the turn of the 21st century, my family and I had not had much to do with death,” says author Katherine…
