YOUR DEAD LOVED ONES AREN'T GONE

88% of dying patients reported dreaming of loved ones who had already died.

Dr Christopher Kerr has spent almost 30 years caring for people in their final days of life.

During that time, he and his team have interviewed over 1,500 dying patients to understand something that medicine has historically paid very little attention to. What people actually experience as they approach death.

Christopher is a hospice doctor and researcher whose work explores the dreams and visions people have towards the end of their lives and why so many describe these experiences as comforting rather than frightening.

What makes his work particularly interesting is that he's actually recorded patients talking about these experiences, rather than relying entirely on what other people remember them saying.

And some of what he's discovered challenges the assumptions we have about dying.

We discussed things like:

- Why 88% of patients in his research reported dreams of deceased loved ones. - What actually matters most to people in their final days. - Why children experience dying differently from adults. - What he's learned from interviewing 750 grieving families. - Whether there is any evidence of life after death.

Christopher also brought footage of patients describing what they were seeing and experiencing in the weeks before their deaths, which gave us an opportunity to hear directly from the people behind his research.

There's still a lot we don't understand about death, and Christopher is very open about that. But what I found particularly valuable was hearing from someone who has spent decades listening to people at a point in their lives most of us know very little about.

This conversation covers some difficult subjects, particularly for anyone who has lost someone close to them, but I think there's a lot here worth understanding while we're still here.

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