From their examination of 3,000 case studies of after-death communication, bolstered by interviews with 500 people who have experienced direct contact with a deceased relative, authors Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski have assembled this methodical assessment of largely ordinary individuals and their encounters with the recently departed. In addition to discussing paranormal phenomena--clairvoyance, psychokinesis, dreams, apparitions, and near-death experiences--the authors have written what amounts to a reader on after-life communication theories.