Commentary on Dr. Death: Reflections of Death Telling

Reflections on War and Death

Reflections on death in childhood.

Reflections on death in childhood SIR,-During a regional survey of childhood asthma deaths I recently interviewed the parents of 24 children who had died from this cause. These deaths were all unexpected, most parents having been led to believe that asthma could not be fatal. For me, like Mother Frances Dominica (10 January, p 108), the experience confirmed that parents never really get over th...

Reflections on Death and Reconciliation

Death was introduced to me suddenly, without forewarning and without any preparation, at the age of ten. I was riding home on my bike on a warm summer evening. A crowd had gathered. and I stopped to see what had happened. There, laying in the street, was a little girl's tennis shoe, next to a tiny pool of blood. I don't know how I knew it was blood, but I did. She had been hit by a car and kill...

Reflections on death in childhood.

During the past four years I have been involved in varying degrees in the death of about 70 people, most of them children and teenagers. Almost anything worth while that I have learnt about death, I have learnt from those young people and from those-closest to them. Perhaps the most important thing has been the gradual recognition that however ill at ease and maladroit Western society is in the...

Reflections on the Context of Near - Death Experiences

^Near-death experiences (NDEs) constitute a particular type of experience that occurs in near-death states and is familiar to many. Yet, there are other kinds of lesser-known experiences reported from near-death states that appear to form an interconnected continuum with NDEs. Because the relations between these different experiences have not received much attention in the more recent literatur...