Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Shallow but passably interesting.

This book is a collection of personal encounters and recollections of death from the author's own experience and from various interviews and other sources. It has a folksy tone which should be accessible to most people. It covers a range of topics, such as life after death, euthanasia reincarnation etc., none of which are dealt with at any depth. I found it a little facile in it's analysis and the style was marred by numerous lapses in grammar. It contains some interesting case studies, several of which are open to a variety of interpretations, although the author seems to accept unquestioningly the one which suits her particular purpose. There is no coherent view of life and death presented but rather a pastiche of various half developed "new age" type theories. It's not a book I would give to anyone facing death and it certainly added nothing new to my own thinking on life, the universe and everything, but some of the studies were mildly interesting in places