After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go?

<b>In <i>After This, </i>acclaimed author, and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith confronts the question she encounters every day in private practice - what happens after we die? </b> <br><br>In an exploration of the afterlife that is part personal, part prescriptive - Smith invites us on her journey into the unknown. She wonders: How do we grieve our loved ones without proof that they live on? Will we ever see them again? Can they see us now, even though they are gone?<br>Chronicling our steps along the path that bridges this world and the next, Smith undergoes past-life regressions and sessions with mediums and psychics and immerses herself in the ceremonies of organized religion and the rigor of scientific experiments to try and find the answers.<br> <br>Drawing on both her personal losses, recounted in her memoir <i>The Rules of Inheritance,</i> as well as her background working in hospice as a bereavement counselor, Smith attempts to show how exploring the afterlife can have a positive impact on the grief process.