'This book is an invaluable, sensitive and gracious volume of writings around death, dying and life after death. It's like a Lonely Planet guidebook, covering everything you ever wanted to know, and more besides about the subject. It is a work of reference, which I will return to again and again and could also recommend it as a book for study by any person, or group, interested in its vitally important content.'
– New View

'[An] informative and compassionate book... Full of practical information as well as human stories illustrating various scenarios. The author emphasises that the dying process is individual and that we may have to unlearn things in the process as well as learn... A very worthwhile read.'
– The Paradigm Explorer

'I am captivated by the warmth throughout the contributions of Renee's book. Flowery prose and gushing poetry do not figure here. Her experience seems well reflected, then sensitively described, so that it can become for the reader a strong prompt to inner work.'
– Camphill Correspondence

Renee Zeylmans (1936-2018) was a psychologist and therapist working in the fields of relationship counselling, biography, and grief counselling. In 1974, her husband of only a few years died, leaving her with three young children. She then dedicated her professional life to helping those dealing with death and grieving. She taught and lectured widely on the subject.

Foreword -- Bastiaan Baan Preface I Being a Companion to a Dying Person -- 1. Dying is Being Born in the Spiritual World -- 2. Death is as a Horizon -- 3. The 'Unknown' Hour of Death -- 4. Developing Awareness of Our Future Realm -- 5. When People Close to Us Die -- 6. The Person Dying as Fellow Traveller -- Monique van der Zanden -- 7. When Young People Die -- 8. Experiences in a Children's Hospital -- Patricia de Vos II Care for the Dying -- 9. The Senses of the One Dying -- 10. The Language of Images at the Threshold -- Bert Voorhoeve -- 11. Music for Terminally Ill People -- Hilly Bol -- 12. Artistic Therapy -- Marieke Udo de Haes-Mulder -- 13. External Therapy -- Pauli van Engelen and Toke Bezuijen III Death is Approaching -- 14. The Physiology of Dying -- Paul Schmitz, MD -- 15. Euthanasia -- 16. Fasting until Death -- 17. The Double: My Shadow -- 18. The Moment of Dying IV After Death -- 19. Coincidence? -- 20. The Funeral -- 21. Accompanying the Dying and Christian Ritual -- Bastiaan Baan -- 22. Mourning by Friends and Relatives -- 23. Across the Threshold of Death -- 24. Staying Connected with the Dead Afterword Further Reading Contributors