F1 Using Near-Death and Related Experiences in Facing Dying and

Using Near-Death and Related Experiences in Facing Dying and Grieving
Bruce Horacek, PhD

This presentation will focus on NDEs, nearing-death awareness experiences, shared or empathic NDEs, and post-death communications in so far as they help experiencers and non-experiencers to face dying and grieving. Examples of these experiences will throw light on such issues as meaning in life, death anxiety, continuing existence, and reunion with deceased loved ones.
Bruce Horacek is a J. Terrence Haney Distinguished Professor in the Gerontology Department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where his teaching and research specialties are dying, death, grieving and near-death and related experiences. He has published one book and over 40 articles, book chapters, and reviews, including 13 on near-death and related experiences. He has delivered over 40 papers at professional meetings. Dr. Horacek is consulting editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, is President Emeritus of IANDS, and served on the IANDS board for six years as vice-president and one year as president. He is a co-founder and coordinator of the Omaha Friends of IANDS. In 2003 he was named a Distinguished Alumni Professor at Marquette University.