Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.