Dr Christopher Kerr has been the chief medical officer at the Center for Hospice and Palliative care in Buffalo, New York since 1999. He has conducted more than 1,400 interviews with dying patients to learn about their experiences. Speaking at a TEDx event in Buffalo back in 2015, Dr Kerr shared some of the conversations with patients which offer unique insight.
He explained: “If there’s light within the darkness of dying then it’s in the experience not in the observing.”
He added: “I learned that end-of-life experiences are the subjective experiences of the dying and often refer to pre-death dreams and visions.”
Such experiences have been reported throughout history and across cultures.
Dr Kerr explained that ... Read even more