It was Leonardo da Vinci who, towards the end of his life, said, "While I thought I had been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die," from which the title of Mike Agostini's second book dealing with death and the afterlife has been taken. The book is also partly the result of many more people's personal experiences, as well as much more research and information coming to hand since the publication of the first, successful book, DEATH The Ultimate Orgasm?

Death and what happens when we die is now the biggest game in town, one we will all have to play one day regardless.

Princess Mary of Denmark, Kylie Minogue and Olivia Newton-John have all had strange and unusual experiences of communications from dead relatives, as have many others, including US Masters golf champion Phil Mickelson and former Wimbledon tennis finalist, Australian Mark Philippoussis, as well as the black Golden Girl of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Aboriginal Australian Cathy Freeman. All these famous people have stories told about them in this second deathbook.

There are also stories about ghosts and exorcisms, as well as all sorts of equally strange but nevertheless true stories that could convince many to want to delve deeper into what is often called the world of the supernatural or paranormal. Yet author Mike Agostini says these events are in fact normal and natural, even if mostly either suppressed or ignored, mainly because of sceptics, scientists and religious beliefs that cannot cope and deal with such things.

Unlike J K Rowling, who writes fantastic fiction, Mike Agostini writes about fantastic facts - true stories about real people, including many otherwise normal and ordinary ones like we all are ourselves.