Fear of the Unknown

ARTHUR S. BERGER is the director of the International Institute for the Study of Death. He has written more than 30 papers and several books on thanatology including When Life Ends (Praeger, in press), Dying and Death in Law and Medicine (Praeger, 1992), and To Die or Not To Die (Praeger, 1990).JOYCE BERGER is administrator of the International Institute for the Study of Death. She is coauthor of the Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research and coeditor of Perspectives on Death and Dying and To Die or Not to Die (Praeger, 1990), among others.

• Introduction Views of Death: General and Medical Implications Views of Death Personal Continuance View: Impact on the Dying Patient, Physician, Nurse, and Chaplain Investigations and Pre-Death Phenomena A Century of Investigation Extrasensory Perception Out-of-Body Experience The Near-Death Experience Deathbed Visions At Death Phenomena At Death Post-Death Phenomena Mental Mediumship Reincarnation Hauntings, Ghosts, and Apparitions Appraisal and Judgment Critical Appraisal Evaluation, Persuasion, and Aid-in-Dying