Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD, is the Chief Medical Officer at The Center for Hospice & Palliative Medicine in Buffalo, New York. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Chris earned his MD as well as a PhD in eurobiology and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Psychology Today.
This comforting guide will reassure the dying and their loved ones
while providing instructive portraits of end-of-life patients for
those who work in medical and healing professions
*Publisher's Weekly*
Whether you have a loved one nearing the end, or are contemplating
what may lie beyond this life, you'll find that Dr Kerr's book
brings meaning and even beauty to our final stage. I recommend it
highly for anyone with a finite lifespan
*Dale Bredesen, MD*
Based on deep experience, this loving, emotionally wise book will
help many people find the path to love, acceptance and meaning as
they face life's end
*Katy Butler*
This reality is shared with us by a hospice physician who, himself,
learned so much from the dying. And what did he learn? That by
being truly present with those who are dying, one learns how to
live
*James Doty, MD*
A beautiful portrait of the human capacity for transcendence at the
end of life. This book will inspire you reflect on the love and
meaning you have experienced in your own life, and help you listen
to, and be with, those nearing the end of their lives
*Kelly McGonigal, PhD*
[A] sympathetic and intriguing book. [Death is But a Dream is] an
uplifting and reassuring work testifying to the deep restorative
and spiritual - though not necessarily religious - nature of
pre-death visions
*Kirkus Reviews*
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