– Discuss death and don’t sweep it under the carpet. Remember that one of the most difficult things of death are relationships within the family which are stressful it makes for a very stressful death. – Prepare for death – don’t just clean out your attic but clear up your relationships. – Learn what may happen to you when you dye. – “Teach people – including children -not to be afraid of dying. He says that w e should all prepare to have a good death, and recommends: We all are going to die, so we better learn about it. Peter Fenwick argues that everyone should know what death is and what the process of dying is about because dying is part of life. He is the co-author with his wife, Elizabeth Fenwick of several books, the last one is The art of dying. He has an extensive research record and has published over 200 papers in medical and scientific journals. He is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist to the Epilepsy Unit at the Maudsley Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital (Oxford).įenwick is also the president of the Horizon Research Foundation, “an independent charitable organisation that aims to provide support for scientific research and understanding into the state of the human mind at the end of life.”. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College (London), and associated with the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton. Currently, other authors such as Sam Parnia, Pim Van Lommel, Monika Renz, and Peter Fenwick are investigating and providing knowledge about consciousness, the process of dying and its phases.Īmong those mentioned, Peter Fenwick (1935) is an eminent neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist who is known for his pioneering research on the phenomena related to the end of life and dying. Probably the names: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Raymond Moody are familiar to you because they both were pioneers in the study of the process of dying. For some people, the fears that had been kept quiet until that moment will emerge.
This is one of the great questions that we are all going to think about at some point in our life.
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