Parting Visions

by Melvin Morse

The author of Closer to the Light and Transformed by the Light assembles true-life stories that explore premonitions, angelic encounters, mystical experiences, and deathbed visions, showing that they are not hallucinations or fantasy, but nature's transition from life to death. Examining how these experiences can confirm, comfort, even empower our understanding of the phenomenon of death, Morse presents a powerful and groundbreaking validation of the spiritual power of death-related dreams, premonitions, and visitations.

Genres: Death, Spirituality

206 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Dr. Morse has researched near death experiences in children and adults since 1980.

Reviews

[Molly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really hoping for much more of a spiritual uplift from this book, but having read it I feel unfulfilled. I feel I may have wasted my time.

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

So wonderful!

[CJ Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

Near-death and pre-death visions appear to differ. Pre-death visions "usually provide great comfort to the patient from that point on." One doctor called them "morphine for the soul." Near-death visions very frequently change the viewers approach to life. "Listening to death-related vision has potential to dramatically reduce wasteful medical procedures that are often painful to the patient. These procedures are often used on dying patients without their consent," Dr. Morse says, "and without any hope of prolonging life." Morse says these measures are "only to make the doctors feel as though everything possible has been done to prevent death." Morse adds that such treatment has no benefit to the patient and has "tremendous" costs. Well, such measures often prevent families from filing lawsuits because "everything" wasn't done. "Strong families are less likely that weak ones to allow unnecessary treatment to take place."
Just reading about such visions can quiet doubts about what the dying is doing, or about why they are talking to someone who can't be seen.

[Carol]

morse is a pediatrician and writes of his experiences with children who have had near death experiences.Great book

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for a near-death collection.