Afterlife Encounters: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experiences by Dianne Arcangel

Dianne Arcangel brings together firsthand reports of encounters that participants interpret as visits from the deceased. Drawing on her five-year Afterlife Encounters Survey, she groups these experiences and considers the circumstances in which people describe them.

The book explores the comfort and meaning that respondents associate with such events during bereavement. These are reported experiences and the author's interpretations; a collection of accounts does not independently establish an afterlife or guarantee relief from grief.