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Although death is universal, how we respond to it--how we ready ourselves for death and how we grieve--depends on when and where we live. New preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief, and new ways to memorialize are continually evolving, and with them come new challenges. Bringing to bear twenty-five years of work on the sociology of death and dying, Tony Walter engages critically with key questions such as: should we talk about death more and plan in advance? How possible is advance planning as more people suffer frailty and dementia? How do physical migration and digital connection affect the irreducibly material process of dying? Is the traditional funeral still relevant? Can burial and cremation be ecological? And how should we grieve: quietly, openly, or even online?
Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief and new ways to memorialise are developing all the time. Bringing 25 years of research and teaching in the sociology of death and dying to this important book, Tony Walter engages critically with key questions such as: should we talk about death more and plan in advance? How effective is this as more people suffer frailty and dementia? How do physical migration and digital connection affect place-bound deathbeds, funerals and graves? Is the traditional funeral still relevant? Can burial and cremation be ecological? And how should we grieve: quietly, openly, or online?
Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How important are culture, the physical environment, national histories, national laws and institutions, and globalization? This is the first book to look at how all these different factors shape death and dying in the modern world. Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people’s experiences of dying and grief. Essential reading for students, researchers and professionals across sociology, anthropology, social work and healthcare, and for anyone who wants to understand how countries around the world manage death and dying.
The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book to comprehensively examine this revival and relate it to theories of modernity and postmodernity.
What Forever Means After the Death of a Child by Kay Talbot Pdf
List of Tables. List of Figures. Series Editor's Foreword. Preface. Prologue. Acknowledgements. What It Means to Be a Parent After a Child Had Died. The "Mothers Now Childless" Study: Research Design and Findings. When a Child Dies, Does Grieving Ever End? One Death - A Thousand Strands of Pain: Finding the Meaning of Suffering. Bereaved Parents' Search for Understanding: The Paradox of Healing. Confronting a Spiritual Crisis: Where is God When Bad Things Happen? Confronting an Existential Crisis: Can Life Have Purpose Again? Deciding to Survive: Reaching Bottom - Climbing Up. Remembering With Love: Bereaved Parents as Biographer. Reaching Out to Help Others: Wounded Healers. Reinventing the Self: Parents Ask, "Who Are We Now?". The Legacy of Loss. References. Resources. Appendices. Index.
'Insightful and refreshing.' - Professor Dennis Klass, Webster University Religion Department, St. Louis, USA 'A tour de force.' - Dr Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych, President of CRUSE Some societies and some individuals find a place for their dead, others leave them behind. In recent years, researchers, professionals and bereaved people themselves have struggled with this. Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is clear is that the grieving individual is not left in a social vacuum but has to struggle with expectations from self, family, friends, professionals and academic theorists. This ground-breaking book looks at the social position of the bereaved. They find themselves caught between the living and the dead, sometimes searching for guidelines in a de-ritualized society that has few to offer, sometimes finding their grief inappropriately pathologised and policed. At its best, bereavement care offers reassurance, validation, and freedom to talk where the client has previously encountered judgmentalism. In this unique book, Tony Walter applies sociological insights to one of the most personal of human situations. On Bereavement is aimed at students on medical, nursing, counselling and social work courses that include bereavement as a topic. It will also appeal to sociology students with an interest in death, dying and mortality.
In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning. In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and David Kessler wrote the classic On Grief and Grieving, introducing the stages of grief with the same transformative pragmatism and compassion. Now, based on hard-earned personal experiences, as well as knowledge and wisdom earned through decades of work with the grieving, Kessler introduces a critical sixth stage. Many people look for “closure” after a loss. Kessler argues that it’s finding meaning beyond the stages of grief most of us are familiar with—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—that can transform grief into a more peaceful and hopeful experience. In this book, Kessler gives readers a roadmap to remembering those who have died with more love than pain; he shows us how to move forward in a way that honors our loved ones. Kessler’s insight is both professional and intensely personal. His journey with grief began when, as a child, he witnessed a mass shooting at the same time his mother was dying. For most of his life, Kessler taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about end of life, trauma, and grief, as well as leading talks and retreats for those experiencing grief. Despite his knowledge, his life was upended by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son. How does the grief expert handle such a tragic loss? He knew he had to find a way through this unexpected, devastating loss, a way that would honor his son. That, ultimately, was the sixth state of grief—meaning. In Finding Meaning, Kessler shares the insights, collective wisdom, and powerful tools that will help those experiencing loss. Finding Meaning is a necessary addition to grief literature and a vital guide to healing from tremendous loss. This is an inspiring, deeply intelligent must-read for anyone looking to journey away from suffering, through loss, and towards meaning.
Grieving Forward: Death Happened, Now What? by Cathy Clough,Linda Pouliot Pdf
It happened and it hurts. You realize it, but you can't believe it yet. The tears start coming and you wonder if you'll ever be able to function normally again. Fortunately, the grief journey, like any other process in life, can be learned. Even though it doesn't feel like it right now, healing is possible. Together we will explore: The 5 needs of every griever. How to deal with: normal grief guilt, normal grief anger, normal grief depression-and the 'dumb' things people say. Sorting, saving and purging your loved one's belongings-without regret. The importance of having a plan for holidays, special days and the anniversary of the death. What it means to create a 'New Normal.' How to navigate the path of grief, with all of its pitfalls and potholes, twists and turns, all the way to the destination of healing, acceptance and new beginnings.
Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
What Does Dead Mean? by Caroline Jay,Jenni Thomas Pdf
What Does Dead Mean? is a beautifully illustrated book that guides children gently through 17 of the 'big' questions they often ask about death and dying. Questions such as 'Is being dead like sleeping?', 'Why do people have to die?' and 'Where do dead people go?' are answered simply, truthfully and clearly to help adults explain to children what happens when someone dies. Prompts encourage children to explore the concepts by talking about, drawing or painting what they think or feel about the questions and answers. Suitable for children aged 4+, this is an ideal book for parents and carers to read with their children, as well as teachers, therapists and counsellors working with young children.
Comforting words and practical ideas for living with loss. Everyone experiences grief differently after the loss of a loved one. Some people find solace in comforting quotes and warm words, while others feel a need to take action—to do something to memorialize their loss. And some benefit from both approaches. Here’s a path forward for you, no matter how you process your grief. Your Grief, Your Way features: · Multiple ways to process grief: Find relief through short meditations, mindful reframings, journaling prompts, concrete actions, and more. · A year of daily messages of comfort: Each page includes a quote and a short paragraph about grief along with a practical tip—something you can do to tend to your grief. · Comfort and practicality in short spurts: Discover strength and support in these bite-size nuggets, since grief reduces the ability to focus. · Quotes from a wide range of grievers: Take courage from the thoughtful words of people who have been in your shoes. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, a practical way to honor your loved one, or both, Your Grief, Your Way helps you navigate life after loss.
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. “Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses,” Danticat notes in her introduction. “I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing.” The book moves outward from the shock of her mother’s diagnosis and sifts through Danticat’s writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison’s Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat’s mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.
Death'Dict: Is There Life After Death? by SULTAN TARLACI Pdf
Is There Life After Death? The Search for a Scientific Answer Science of Death, The First Book You'll Read Before You Die Table of Contents Death… 4 Death Anxiety Scale Test-1 15 Death Count and Death Statistics 16 The Fate of Death Written in the Cell 24 Coping with Fear and Anxiety of Death 33 Voices from Beyond Death… 52 The Brain State of the Spirit-Connected Psychic 60 Turks at Work for the Password in the Other World 73 The Spiritless: Zombies, Vampires and Ghosts 87 Capturing Immortality with Nanotechnology 96 Do we lose 21 grams when we die? 105 The Unrevealed Promising Evidence of the Afterlife 115 Is There Any Evidence of the Extra-Revelation Promised Realm? 119 Days to Death 134 Mourning as Relatives of the Deceased 141 Suspending Death Like the Seven Sleepers 149 Call Received Before Going: Death Mattress Events 163 Half and Full State of Death: Clinical Death and Brain Death 169 Is Reincarnation Rebirth? 176 Returning from the Gate of the Other Realm: Near-Death Experiences 270 Every Creation Dies One Day, Even the Universe 251 Death Anxiety Scale Test-2 266 Death… Thinking about death or even writing a book creates a different feeling. To many readers, the word may come across as a cold, aloof and lossy, unsettling word. Some people hesitate to even say the word. That the angel of death can be called Azrael. After meeting with our publishing house editor for a long time, we had planned to write a series of books on different subjects that would clear up the confusion. Although I had been thinking about writing a book about death for quite some time, putting it first was unexpected. In general, I did not think of such an order, since all narratives are treated linearly as birth-life and last-death. It suddenly occurred to me that it was more important to put aside the order of books and write about death. I guessed that you have more extensive knowledge to write about this subject and that it will attract more attention unlike other books I will prepare. However, how much a book with death on it will sell is another matter of discussion. In addition to interest, it seemed to me as an important justification that it could be at the top of an urgent need list. Because in this country, thousands of people die every day and their relatives witness their deaths. Many chronic and severe patients are also waiting for their death and their relatives are waiting with them. Or we may come face to face with unexpected sudden deaths. At that time, death was prepared as a pre-writable book on the subject, as the first book in the series. Death is an emergency for mortals and dying! Even in a world of death, nothing is as serious and remarkable as death. Since the ultimate victory is death, it is necessary to give priority to understanding it. When was man's first thought about death? This is difficult to know, but a look at the long history of evolution yields some clues. H. neanderthalensis, one of our relatives in the evolutionary family tree It emerged in the world 350 thousand years ago and their existence continued until 30 thousand years ago. Despite their brains being considerably larger than we are now, evolution – this data confirms once again the importance of function, not size – of organs, these hominids, unable to survive and make technical progress, seem to think as if they were thinking about death. Perhaps because they were ice age people, life was difficult for them and they died at an average of 40. Although they had big brains, they did not have the clothes they had developed to protect them from the cold. Although it has been suggested that Neanderthals buried their dead with religious rituals and floral ornaments, it has been suggested that the data found later cannot be interpreted so precisely, that the flower pollen found may have been carried there by the wind or that it may have come from the boots of the workers working in the excavation. Whatever the story here, in the event that a thinking human's hunting friend dies while hunting, or his wife, with whom he has made love and had a child, suddenly dies, it is likely that in his moonlit caverns by the waters, “where did the living, running and hunting person go?” His questioning was by looking at the stars. Because only yesterday she was out there hunting with him and looking after his children. What had happened to him then that he could not move, speak or react. Therefore, the perception of death is not new to the evolutionary scene. It is very likely that it emerged when hominids began to pretend to be someone else, to see their own reflection in the water or to remember their dreams. But “when exactly?” There is no one you can answer a question like. In the later periods, when socialization increased with living in groups, death began to pass into both mythologies and written documents as a part of life. We begin to see the first written documents about death in the Egyptian society that lived on the banks of the Nile 3500 years ago, and then it became a subject in different ways in Sumer, Assyria, Hittite and all other societies. On the other hand, the concept of death and after death creates an inseparable unity of questions and question marks seem to lie back to back. Where death is mentioned, the discussion of an afterlife, which starts with death and giving life, is also going on. With the emergence of monotheistic religions, death and afterlife became one of the most important parts of theology for a long time, since the afterlife became the promised life. With the birth of not only theology but philosophy, it became one of the longest and most important topics of discussion. Although it was suggested by some philosophers that it would not be the subject of philosophy "because it does not belong to life", it has become one of the important and even essential topics of philosophy arising from the mind-brain, soul-body discussions. For centuries, the mind-brain and soul-body debates continued and still do. Although the main question philosophy seeks to answer is how the mind-brain connection is achieved, whether there is a mind separate from the material flesh and brain, after all, if there is a structure that exists apart from the material body (whatever its name is mind, consciousness or spirit), what will happen with death? comes after. Life after death has been an area of interest not only for religions but also for spiritualism, and this interest has led to the birth of modern parapsychology. Although this trend, which started in the West in the 1800s, began to reach its consistency in the late 1950s in our country, the concept of the afterlife and death remained the main area of interest of spiritualism. The answer they were looking for – what kind of continuity is there in the afterlife – has provided a more moderate approach to the subject of death for the limited number of people who are interested in the subject, although they do not directly examine what death is. Many professionals have emerged who are committed to learning from the spirits of the psychic dead and understanding the order of the other side. Among them, there were people who were educated in scientific knowledge schools and even received the Nobel Prize. The experiences at the moment of death and the extraordinary events that took place during the deaths were recorded. It was tried to be put together in a frame and mold. For a long time, death was ignored by western philosophers and it was not considered and systematically examined, considering it a subjective situation close to metaphysics. Even the famous Wittgenstein claimed in his Tractus that "death is not an event of life" and that it cannot be talked about meaningfully. For example, Spinoza says in his Ethics that “the free person does not think about death, he contemplates on life”. This saying is also an escape. On the other hand, for some, death is the real muse of philosophy and they mostly focused on concepts such as death anxiety, what death is and how people learn about death. Conversely, August Comte said that "if there is only one philosophical truth, it is death". Socrates accepted philosophy as "preparation for death". According to him, philosophy would not be easily possible without death. Voltaire, on the other hand, says that we do not know what eternal life is, while present life is a terrible joke. He points out that the human species is the only species that is aware of death and knows that it will die when the day comes. Tirasaymakos, on the other hand, makes a remarkable emphasis in Philalethes' speech: "If my individuality does not continue, I will not even give metallicity to what you mumble about as immortality." He is right, but in today's sense, individuality means our personality, our memory of experience and our awareness of ourselves. The other world, where this does not exist, must not be very desirable. More recently, the issue of death has become an area of interest in medicine, due to the development of organ transplants and the demand for organ harvesting from deceased people. Because organs could be taken from people who died, not from living people, and what exactly death meant had to be defined for physicians. For this purpose, "brain death diagnostic criteria" were started to be developed by neurologists in the not too distant 1970s. Although these criteria have changed over time, the concept of "brain death" as a general pattern has settled in medicine and has been accepted as the legal definition of death. The diagnosis of “brain death” meant death medically and legally, and the same nomenclature is still valid today, except for some minor details. Again, developing health technologies, improving the storage conditions of tissues taken from humans, and after many animal experiments, "Can we freeze humans and keep them in order to wake them up again in the future?" approaches emerged. The same question was asked whether it could be done by putting astronauts or passengers to sleep with some kind of deep cooling during sending humans to Mars or distant planets. In this case, the freezing process, which was applied, required a definition of death, as it required a starting point. On the other hand, people paid money to wake up after death by freezing himself (whole body or just the head) in the hope of being cured sometime in the future. Body ice cream companies were established in different parts of the world. It required a reconsideration of the concept of death—when it started—as it had to be applied legally as soon as the diagnosis of death was made. Parapsychologists were interested in near-death experiences, but for the last ten years, physicians working in hospitals have also started to take part in research topics. Discussions began to be published in scientific journals on the subject about why near-death experiences could occur and what could happen in the brain neurologically, physiologically and chemically at that time. In other words, death and near-death experiences can also be revealed and researched with the scientific method. In this way, we have come to understand better a concept called "clinical death", which has been emphasized. We have added “clinical death” to the concept of “brain death”. Spiritualism, continue to be a subject of interest and discussion today as it was in the past. Aside from saying "I used to be this, you are not my parents" when children are 3-4 years old, self-helpers and regression healers have come to the point of giving people one or more past lives as gifts. The immortality implied by the rebirth cases and the state of being reincarnated in the world after death continue to be an important belief issue both in our country and in the world even today. It is a matter of both belief and debate among people at all levels of education. More recently, recordings of cerebral blood flow and brain waves (EEG) of deceased persons at the time of death were made and these were published and presented to other scientists for their opinions. However, physical and physiological examination of deceased persons at the time of death is a very rare situation in science, and the first experiments were carried out almost a hundred years ago. It was reported in the newspapers that 21 grams were lost from the body with death. Even if the film was made in the intervening time, the scientific confirmations did not give the same result. But when the movie was released, the 21 grams issue occupied the minds and asked, “Is the soul only 21 grams? Oh, does it only weigh as much as a piece of chocolate?” had been asked. Since quantum physics pervades our daily lives, its implications have made us rethink the issue of "death and extinction" - I haven't observed the same thing for quantum physicists at universities dealing with solid matter. A hundred years ago, everything was a particle. Then it was introduced into our minds that there were no particles but only concentrations of energy. Today, however, we understand that neither particles nor energy concentrations. Everything that makes up matter is actually information and temporary existences in the universal quantum field or wave function! At that time, our structure is not a decaying, depleted matter, but a structure that has continuity according to quantum physics, but only transitions from state to state. “In this case, what would be the meaning of bodily or cerebral death?” The question was asked and comments were written and drawn by opening the curtain on life after death. Therefore, the meaning of the word death began to be perceived and felt differently. Today, the issue of death is one of the most important issues in the minds of modern people, whether they live in the village or in the city. However, it is discussed in the secret subconscious but in open conscious conversations. Although most people do not talk about the subject, you must have had a mandatory recollection of death, either at night or during the death of their relatives, or during the burial. You have probably asked yourself one or more of the questions you will see in the chapter titles of our book, not just remembering. You've probably just asked yourself and silently. Unbeknownst to anyone... Even while thinking about death in your mind, you must have thought quietly so that death would stay away... In this book, we will begin to find answers to questions about death in the minds of readers, and perhaps even unintentionally to create new questions. We can cause some people to reconsider the truths they believe in. Our main aim is to consider and discuss death by considering more scientific information today, without ever addressing the theological concept of death and the afterlife. The question of why theological debates do not exist in this book is a separate issue and is of interest to theologians. In this land where tradition and religion are almost inextricably intertwined – thankfully, many academic theologians in our universities can make this distinction very well from the perspective of the Qur'an – it would be best not to discuss religion and death, the afterlife. For example, a subject such as the promise of Paradise for Abraham is not covered in detail in the book. Another issue is what a neurologist, who is the author of this book, can have to do with death. Neurology is a field of medicine dealing with brain and spinal cord diseases. After all, I am one of the mortals. On the other hand, neurologists are one of the specialties that diagnose medical death and brain death. Neurologists are the first to give consent for organ transplantation when the diagnosis of brain death is made. Neurology is one of the specialties with the highest number of deaths and deaths in hospitals. Apart from that, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences and some other abnormal death-related phenomena are related to the nervous system and brain. Perhaps most importantly, neurologists, who are scientists, deal with the concepts of consciousness, memory and personality. All of these things somehow originate in the brain, and what happens to them when the brain dies are a question on the neurologist's mind. For this reason, the neurologist, who is a physician and scientist, does not ask (or even can) ask where the soul goes when he dies, he asks whether consciousness-memory-personality continues. The question to ask is: do we die when we die? And proving that our existence continues after death means revealing the most important secret for us. After all, you are mortal as a living being that comes to life! When we are born and even from the mother's womb, there is a seal on our butt: "mortal". Since we are created, and in other words, we are not creators, we will "die". According to the Islamic religious belief, we will be laid alone on the musalla stone, we will be buried under the ground alone. Even further, our universe will face death at some future time. A very dark and incredibly cold universal death! Other Realm Research Periods It is possible to divide the researches on the other world into four time periods. These periods can be grouped as 1880-1930, 1930-1960, 1960-1990 and 1990 to present. It is the first period between 1830-1930. It is the period of collecting, classifying and analyzing the "spontaneous" experiences of people who have seen the ghosts of dead people. The accumulation of knowledge that started with psychics also coincides with this period. As the 1930s approached, many case examples were accumulated and concepts such as extrasensory perception and super psi were written. Although parapsychology resorted to experimental methods between 1930 and 1960, many parapsychologists did not engage in much research and experimentation on the afterlife. It can be said that they even neglected such a topic. While this period in the West was the period of experimental parapsychology, in our country, the spiritism movement that was about to end in the West, Dr. It is the period when it started to grow with Bedri Ruhselman. In the next period, Dr. Ruhselman sifted his flour on spiritism and hung his sieve. He had left behind enough knowledge. Between 1960 and 1990, methods were developed to prevent telepathy from their living relatives in an effort to gather information from beyond death. Information was collected by these methods. Death has become the subject of science. Especially with the start of organ transplants, definitions of what death is and the concept of brain death began to be made. Although science was not interested in the afterlife, parapsychologists continued to gather information. Between 1985 and 1995, many people were trained and emerged in the field of parapsychology in our country. New associations were formed and many publishers emerged. Since the 1995s, the otherworld has continued to be the subject of philosophy and other research fields, if not more positively, of science. In addition to the positive discussions, quantum physics was also included in the event. Personal developments also did not stay away from the event and made all efforts to send people to the beyond. The concept of the afterlife is still one of the taboos for science. Well, memories can persist "somewhere else" that persists after physical death. Because looking at some case reports, some reported incidents should not exist if the materialism is true. Darwin's theory of evolution cast doubt on the belief that man has a soul. Despite this, Alfred R. Wallace, one of the founding fathers of the theory of evolution, was an ardent spiritualist and never deviated from his belief that human beings would exist after death. Yet Darwin had encircled the throne on which the soul sat and brought it down. But we know that the belief or idea that something resembling this life will continue forever and untimely in the afterlife continues to bother some. Questions, questions and questions… Are you ready to ask aloud questions about death, talk and discuss scientific information? Surprise and bewilderment are the most important stimulant sources that enable learning. In your warm brain inside your heads, I'm sure you have many questions and you don't have the answers: What is the death that these people and I will experience? Do I really die when I die? Or is something going on? Is it possible to remain? Is there such a thing as “I think therefore I am” outside of our body? Will my personality and memory remain the same after death? When death knocks on the door, does everyone have to open it, or do some return from that door? Does a person die because he is sick or because he is alive? Is disembodied awareness possible? Is there an experience without a brain? Does the experience continue after death? If it continues, is it a continuation of our personality before we die? In the next world, will we be able to wake up here as we wake up every morning? Believing in the afterlife means affirming eternal life, but if time has an end, how will it be? Will we feel alive when our organic body is destroyed? Do we change space with death, or does our consciousness change environment or state? Did we sanctify the afterlife because absence is not a bearable feeling? Are near-death or near-death experiences real? Are people who claim to be born again lying or are they mentally ill? Soulless immortals, are vampires real? Are there ghosts that cause spirits to cause confusion in this world? Is the life after death only virtual, like walking in one's own mind, or is it an objective life? Will we remember our memories before we die? Will it be a private world or a public and open world to all? Will everyone have their own dream? Is it beyond the knowledge of positive science that works with the senses? Can science claim that there is no continuity after death? Is burning in hell more acceptable than non-existence? Is it death that really scares people, or is it the possibility of our existence being completely lost? Where is the other world as space? If the existence of the other world is confirmed, will it be necessary to change the marriage vows to forever, not "until death do us part"? If we get conclusive evidence that psychics connect with the souls of the deceased on the other side, wouldn't we have to develop a new law on the legal rights of the deceased on this side? On the other hand, if the famous scientists who died are not going to stay in the other world and they pursue discovery and invention there, how will the patent right be provided? When the certainty of life after death is revealed, how will we respond to people who intend to commit suicide and who want death (euthanasia) in incurable illness, and what will be its place in law? Again, when psychiatric patients come to psychologists and psychiatrists, how many souls will they bring with them? How will the visit fee be determined in this case and from whom will it be requested? There are also questions about the desire for immortality and the psychology of death. What psychology enters someone who learns that you have a deadly disease and that you have a number of days left, and what stages does he go through emotionally? Is the sadness that we mourn after the death normal? How long does it take, how long does it take to become a diseased condition? Even if I cannot become immortal one day, if I keep the genetic codes of my brain unchanged, can I be brought back to life hundreds of years from now? If I want to freeze my brain or body in time so that it does not change, is the price different? The "death " words and questions that I write a lot, I recommend you to read this book again. Because from the beginning of the topic until the time you read it – except you – 100 people died in the world and 1 person in Turkey! Although the world population is constantly increasing and cities are more crowded, this does not mean that there are no deaths. The numbers are only increasing because the birth rate is higher than the death rate. Cities are growing. In the next 100 years, the current world population of 7,215,731,300 people will die. With the open number, these seven billion two hundred and fifteen thousand imperfect people will be included in this number as the author of this book and you as the reader. But we're going to die somehow from heart disease, but from cancer, but from a stroke in the brain or some other disease. One end of the storyboard is birth, the other end is death… Are you ready to watch the end of the movie?
The Science of Near-Death Experiences by John C. Hagan Pdf
What happens to consciousness during the act of dying? The most compelling answers come from people who almost die and later recall events that occurred while lifesaving resuscitation, emergency care, or surgery was performed. These events are now called near-death experiences (NDEs). As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have traveled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Physicians and healthcare professionals must learn how to appropriately treat patients who report an NDE. It is estimated that more than 10 million people in the United States have experienced an NDE. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience. This book establishes a new paradigm for NDEs.