Stevenson (2001, p. 212) noted that in the majority of his cases, there were indications of ongoing or unfinished business carried over from the previous life. A premature death from murder, accident, or illness might produce a sense of incompleteness, but many cases have more specific types of unfinished business, such as a desire to tell widows where valuables are hidden, a wish to collect or repay debts, or a yearning to return to children left behind. The emotional quality of these more specific types of unfinished business is clear. A. C. Holland and E. A. Kensinger (2010) stressed the
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