Beyond Knowing

Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist

As I have listened to the extraordinary experiences told to me by family members and loved ones of those whose deaths I investigate I have come to see more than I expected. I have begun to know something special is unfolding all around me. from the introduction Working as a medical examiner Dr. Janis Amatuzio has found that by listening and talking to loved ones of the deceased she can offer them a sense of closure. In doing so she has heard and here retells extraordinary stories of spiritual and otherworldly events surrounding the transition between life and death. As in her first book Forever Ours Dr. Amatuzio presents the amazing heartfelt accounts told to her by grieving family members patients doctors nurses clergy and police officers. Along with these stories she shares her own story reflecting on the course of her career the bonds she has formed over the years the lessons she has learned and her conclusion that Everything truly is all right. This powerful book honors the mystery of life and death exploring the realms of visions synchronicities and communications on deaths threshold. Told in the voice of a compassionate scientist who sees death every day these stories eloquently convey the patterns of truth Dr. Amatuzio has found in what she sees and hears. Beyond Knowing explores the wisdom the living might find in these accounts and shows how that wisdom changes lives.