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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Visitors near death : are they "real"? -- Hallucinations -- Perception -- Greetings and other customs -- Advice -- Transformation -- Gifts -- Vigils. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Deathbed hallucinations.
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Deathbed hallucinations. |
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Near-death experiences.
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Near-death experiences. |
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Spirits -- Social aspects.
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Spirits. |
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Social aspects. |
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Death -- Social aspects.
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Death -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kellehear, Allan, 1955- Visitors at the end of life New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231182140 (DLC) 2019057375 |
| ISBN |
9780231544023 electronic book |
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0231544022 electronic book |
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9780231182140 hardcover |
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9780231182157 paperback |
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