Life Beyond Death: What Should We Expect?

Life Beyond Death: What Should We Expect? examines reports and arguments concerning survival after physical death. David Fontana considers communication through mediums, near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences, alongside questions about consciousness and whether anything can persist when the brain and body perish.

The book compares these accounts with descriptions in The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Egyptian Book of the Dead. It also considers reincarnation, earthbound spirits, Hades conditions, planes of illusion and proposed realms such as Summerland. Fontana presents these ideas as claims and traditions within psychical research, setting accounts of the possible afterlife beside broader questions about identity, existence and what might follow death.