Lisa Smartt, MA, is the author of “Words at the Threshold”. A linguist, educator, and poet, she founded the “Final Words Project”, an ongoing study devoted to collecting and interpreting the mysterious language at the end of lives. She co-facilitates workshops about language and consciousness with Raymond Moody at universities, hospices, and conferences and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at http://www.finalwordsproject.org.