Dr. Chauncey Crandall knows his patients well. When they are dying, he sits with them and holds their hands. He prays with them. Sometimes he can feel what they feel and see what they see. And sometimes his patients have near-death experiences and "come back" to life with astonishing descriptions of the afterlife. In TOUCHING HEAVEN, he reveals how his observations have convinced him that God is in fact real, that we are created for a divine purpose, that death is not the end, that we will see our departed loved ones again, and that we are closer to the next world than we think.