Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End by Kerr, Christopher
Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End by Kerr, Christopher

Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End

The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Christopher...
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Author: Christopher Kerr
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End by Kerr, Christopher

Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End

$34.80
Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End by Kerr, Christopher

Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End

$34.80
Author: Christopher Kerr
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears.

Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance.

Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure.

Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery.

Author: Christopher Kerr,Carine Mardorossian
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780525542841


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 12/23/2019
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 94

About the Author
Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD, is the CEO and chief medical officer at Hospice Buffalo. Born and raised in Toronto, Kerr earned his MD as well as a PhD in neurobiology and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Rochester. His research has received international attention and has been featured in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and the BBC. He lives on a horse farm in the small town of East Aurora, New York.
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