Are the dead really gone?
Across the world, nurses and doctors see the same thing. In their last days, the dying speak to mothers, husbands and children who have already died. They look past the people in the room and smile. Then they go calmly.
Dominic C Ndulue saw it for himself. As a healthcare assistant, senior clinical support worker and trainee nursing associate at King's College Hospital, Guy's Cancer Centre and Royal Preston Hospital, he sat with patients who talked to loved ones no one else could see, and who died in peace.
In this deep and honest book, he asks what the dying are seeing, and what it means for every one of us.
Inside you will discover:
• More than a century of evidence, from Sir William Barrett's Death-Bed Visions to the hospice research of Buffalo, Kerala, Japan and Britain
• Terminal lucidity, the startling return of clarity just before death
• Shared death experiences, in which the living glimpse the journey too
• The strongest scientific explanations, weighed fairly
• What Egypt, Plato, Tibet and Yeshua taught about the passage of the soul
• The lost books of the Gnostics, the Gospel of Mary, the Pistis Sophia and the Mandaean scriptures, and their map of the soul's journey home
• Practical guidance for families sitting with someone who is dying
Whether you are grieving, caring for someone at the end of life, or simply wondering what awaits us all, this book offers evidence, ancient wisdom and hope.
The dead are not gone. They come to take us home.
