“‘Iknew something had happened to him – I just knew it’; ‘There was this light which seemed to come from him’; ‘She smiled, as if she was greeting someone – and then she died’. Intimations of a loved one’s death; warm, enveloping lights; visions of dead relatives – deathbed phenomena such as these have become a passion for Dr Peter Fenwick, a consultant in neuropsychiatry at the universities of London and Southampton.”
Fenwick, doing ongoing research on deathbed phenomena, feels they are common, they are not attributable to medication effects, and they are more diverse than the stereotypical “going toward the light” phenomenon.
