Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying Summary
Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying Summary

The text considers the phenomenon the authors term Nearing Death Awareness. It is a concept encapsulating a host of psychological, physical, and metaphysical traits, which are exhibited by terminally ill patients in the weeks and days preceding death. The phenomenon is related to, but distinct from, the Near Death Experience. In Nearing Death Awareness, patients approaching death typically display up to four unique behaviors: they prepare to travel to another location...

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