A Spirituality of Death in the Context of Pastoral Care and Counseling.

In major world religious/spiritual traditions, death is accepted as a natural end of life and a point of transition into the unknown. In this paper, I reflect on how my personal experience as both a survivor from a Near-Death Experience (NDE) and as a theologian doing pastoral care and counseling. NDEs foster an internal sense of connection to the divine and to something greater or higher than the self which I call as the "Spirituality of Death."