In this obituary:
"Though poets and philosophers might write ardently of the soul and of immortality, doctors could not possibly describe these as fact. Plato, Plotinus and Shelley might describe the winged spirit struggling from the body, and 'the abode where the Eternal are'; but scientists, however hazy their understanding of human consciousness, could have no truck with theories based neither on reason nor on observable evidence. Her colleagues increasingly murmured about Dr Kubler-Ross, and edged away. Disastrously, she then went much further. She began to fill her lectures with tales of her out-of-the body experiences, including travelling through space at the speed of light. She fell in with Jay Barham, a charlatan from Arkansas who practised 'channelling', 'spiritual cloning' and batty sorts of religio-sexual therapy. Four 'spooks' from the spirit world called Salem, Ankh, Mario and Willie became her guides and mentors. Her husband, horrified by her antics, divorced her. By the 1980s her healing centres in Virginia and California were being shot at and burned down. Although the best parts of her work had taken hold--there are now more than 2,500 hospices in America--her reputation was in ruins."
