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Book Review: On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience, by Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino. New York: Insight Books, 1997, 353 +xiv pp, $29.95 hb

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    Emily Williams Kelly (Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia)

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Kelly, E.W. Book Review: On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience, by Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino. New York: Insight Books, 1997, 353 +xiv pp, $29.95 hb. Journal of Near-Death Studies 19, 123–130 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007865123328

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