ARTHUR S. BERGER is the director of the International Institute for the Study of Death and an active member of the bioethics committee of a large metropolitan hospital. He is an attorney, educator, the author of six books, including Fear of the Unknown (Praeger, 1995), Dying and Death in Law and Medicine (Praeger, 1992), and the editor of three books including To Die or Not to Die? (Praeger, 1990), and Perspectives on Death and Dying (1989).
Introduction Views of Death: General and Medical Implications Views of Death Personal Continuance View: Impact on the Dying Patient
Physician
Nurse
and Chaplain Investigations and Pre-Death Phenomena A Century of Investigation Extrasensory Perception Out-of-Body Experience The Near-Death Experience Deathbed Visions At Death Phenomena At Death Post-Death Phenomena Mental Mediumship Reincarnation Hauntings
Ghosts
and Apparitions Appraisal and Judgment Critical Appraisal Evaluation
Persuasion
and Aid-in-Dying