Words at the threshold
Subtitle: what we say as we're nearing death
By: Lisa Smartt ; foreword by Raymond Moody, Jr., MD, PhD
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781608684601
Subjects: Last words; Near-death experiences; Death; Future life
Description: xii, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transcribing the mystery : following the sacred path of final words; title: No words for it : language changes as we approach the threshold; title: Metaphors of the momentous : before we die, we announce a big event; title: I leave you with these words : travel metaphors speak of a coming voyage; title: Repetition, repetition, repetition : intensified language in our last days; title: Nonsense or a new sense? : unintelligible language at end of life; title: Words between the worlds : descriptions of visions and visitations before dying; title: Lullabies and good-byes : is our first and final language unspoken?; title: I'll call you when I get there : after-death communication.