One Last Hug Before I Go: The Mystery and Meaning of Deathbed Visions

This was an excellent book. Very easy to follow and very interesting. I wish she would write another. A must read regarding Death Bed Visions.

This book provides far more than just research. There are some very intriguing parallels to all the documented cases.This book is written in a way that it maintains the interest of the existing "Believer" and captures the interest of the curious and perhaps skeptic. Every reader can relate to some witnessed event in this book. Perhaps not aware of what may have taking place at the time....now enlightened.I found this refreshingly real and hard to put down Especially in comparison to other popular books about the afterlife that had a commercial edge and were almost trying to "sell" a belief.Dr. Carla has an impressive fan club of people like myself that respect her for her Spiritual insight and general wisdom of well being. I actually reccommend all of her books. She's pretty multi-tasked!

This is the first book I read on the subject and I really liked it. Dr. Carla lists tens of Death Bed Visions which are indeed convincing and beautiful. They make you realize that death is not that horrible and frightening at all. The dying person sees deceased relatives, angels, and loved ones and actually wants to go to them. They see the wonderful light that awaits for them on the other side and they see that [over there] there is nothing to be afraid of. After you read this book you will understand how unfair it is that society does not accept the DBVs and the death subject in general. How our own religion rejects them, and wonder why, since they preach that death is not the end! Let alone the scientists (and stay away from most of them) who always find a...scientific answer for every question. But as beautifully stated in the book already, if those visions are only by-products of the dying brain, how come the dying person sees only deceased ones, and never loved ones who are still alive?I only wish I had this book when my beloved grandmother died and was so much frightened of death. I would be able to explain her a few things I learned from this wonderful book, and provide her some comfort.It is amazing. It proved that we don't die alone at all, but a beloved deceased person or persons are there, waiting to help us make it to the other side and we are happy to reunite with them!

It has seemed to me for a number of years that there is a kind of secret society among those of us who have sat with people we love who are dying, who have died. It is a holy time, in the sense that it is a time set apart from the ordinary routines and tasks. This is not to imply that it is an easy or enjoyable period at all; indeed, one may feel suspended in or out of time. The clock ticks away, but noon no longer means lunch, necessarily, and the dawning day may mark the end of a long night shift at a bedside.This book honors the experiences of those who have sat beside the bed and, most importantly, of those _in_ the bed. It reports the variety of visions, dreams, serendipities, and expected or unexpected occurrences that attend dying. It normalizes the events many of us are skittish about acknowledging, much less discussing. In doing so, it offers a significant amount of consolation both for the things we have seen and for the individual encounter with death that awaits each of us.It is possible that some readers of particularly fundamentalist religious persuasions would take offense at some of the ideas examined here. To them I say only that with this book, as with anything in life, it's best to take what you find useful and to leave the rest behind. As a person of deep religious faith and convictions, I can truthfully say that I found nothing here that would cause me to contravene my religion's beliefs and practices. On the contrary, this book causes a deep gratitude to rise in me for the gift of faith and for the healing presence of love.