I have worked with nearly four thousand people on their perceptions of loss, mourning and grief over one or more of their close connected individual’s deaths with the Demartini Method for Dissolving Grief. I have also assisted those who were dying, and relieved the grief of those who initially perceived they have ‘lost’ their family members, relatives, or close friends. And I have demonstrated consistently that when we become fully conscious and aware we begin to realize that nothing that has come into existence has actually become completely destroyed, only simply and conservatively transformed, and we begin to look at life and so-called mortal existence differently.

Ayşegül, who has been an exceptional and thought provoking journalist for many years has made it a priority in her work to send a message to people throughout the world as a result of her own previous perceptions of ‘pain’, to explain the deeper meaning and value of life and that life itself is an astounding experience likened to what some theologians have called a miracle. This message was partly inspired through Ayşegül’s sudden and ‘tragic loss’ of her brother, who was a doctor. While suddenly questioning her own life and existence with the feeling of loss, she inwardly knew she had initiated a meaningful mission, even though her perception of pain was fresh. A journalist who has interviewed countless other faces of the world, now, for the first time, has written her own story, and managed to bring together many influential names of this century within the framework of birth, death and the intermediate existence called life. It is impossible not to admire her mission, vision and honesty even now in advance of its impact.