After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After LifeThe first cross-cultural investigation of how humanity copes with the reality of death, this new understanding of the afterdeath in much the same way the work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross does for the dying process. Using extensive and innovative research, anecdotes, and stories, Sukie Miller has woven together the results of groundbreaking studies of attitudes world wide toward the "afterdeath". Identifying four distinct stages of the "afterdeath, Waiting, Judgment, Possibilities, and Return, she clarifies and analyses the results of her work in India, Brazil, Indonesia, West Africa, and the United States. |
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
The Next Question | 25 |
Crossing Borders Within and Without | 38 |
PART II | 59 |
Judgment | 85 |
Possibilities | 113 |
Return | 134 |
On Hope | 162 |
Appendix A The Afterdeath Inventory | 169 |
The Institute for the Study of the Afterdeath | 201 |
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