Trailing Clouds of Glory
Harold Widdison earned a Bachelors degree in Sociology and a MBA from Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology in 1979 and taught at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona for thirty-one years before retiring in 2003.Dr. Widdison became interested in the subject of death, grief, and bereavement two months before his marriage when his father suddenly died in a car a accident. He later created and taught one of the first courses on these subjects in a university setting. He also had several family members share their experiences with him— one uncle had a NDE (near-death experience) on the operating table and an adopted daughter had a visit from her dead grandfather.Trailing Clouds of Glory is the result of seven years of interviewing, researching and collecting of first person accounts.