Why on earth would anyone want to investigate the afterlife?

  

Death is the greatest mystery of all time and I’m absolutely fascinated by it. Often I feel like a little kid who’s just found a hole in the back fence and there’s some great adventure waiting on the other side.

Do I get scared? Yes just a little bit, but the sense of adventure is too great and I feel compelled to find out what happens on the other side of death even if it kills me! Ok, maybe not, but you get a sense of my conviction.

In our western society, death is seen as the worst thing that can happen to you and many people don’t want to talk about it, let alone even think about it. But what if ignoring it or relegating death to hushed whispers at the funeral home prevents us from discovering something amazing, something so possibly incredible that it could change our lives forever.  We’ll never know unless someone starts to ask the question and talks about it openly.

There are countless people already having the conversation and who have had amazing insights, whether it’s from a Near Death Experience or via a medium or ghostly encounter, but still those conversations are rarely in the public arena and I want to change that. I want to bring death to the dinner table and have it break bread with us (or maybe just enjoy a bowl of cauliflower soup.)

Like I say in the book, “We’re all going to die, so what’s wrong with having a bit of forehand knowledge of what’s going to happen. There’s nothing like being prepared”.

However for me, I need personal experience. Reading books, listening to people, or researching on line, isn’t enough, I need that deep knowing that comes from personal firsthand experience. It’s like when you’re a kid and your mum said don’t touch the hot plate because you’ll get burnt, but you when ahead and touched it anyway (or was that just me?). I never touched the hotplate again.

I’m hoping by having as many personal experiences of death (and seeing if I survive it) as possible, it might help other people like you to not be so afraid and maybe you’ll do what I’ve done to get your own personal experience.

That’s why Dying to Know – Is there life after death, is part travelogue /  part adventure story / part instruction manual because not only do you get to follow my journey but I give you the information to do some of the activities yourself.  Scared yet?

 One of the strangest things I noticed while putting the book together was that while I have felt heart in the mouth fear, a severe case of nerves and major apprehension at what I would discover,  I felt something else as well,… I felt alive. Strange isn’t it. I’ve never felt more alive than when I was investigating death.

Ok I'm officially strange.