Dr Pamela Kircher is a seasoned hospice physician and a near-death experiencer who has worked for years with dying people and their families. In this book, she shares moving, immensely helpful stories - some her own, many from others - of moments when the veil between worlds disappears.

Table of Contents

How My Work with Near Death Experiences Began; Learning the Meaning of Commitment; Beginning the Hospice Work; Developing My Ideas About NDEs and the Dying Process; How NDEs in Terminally-Ill Patients Appear to Differ from Those in Acute Events; Visitations From Dead Relatives; Relationships Between NDEs and Other Mystical Experiences: Two Types of Spiritual Awakening; Long-term Effects of NDEs; Recollections of NDEs; Profiles of People Who Have Had NDEs; Toward a Void or Toward the Link?; The Meaning of the Hospice Experience; Conclusions.