Overview: Love Does Not Know Death: Stories of Death, Dying, and the Miracles of True Forgiveness by author Dr. Adam Rizvi, MD is an exploration of mortality through the lens of A Course in Miracles and the lived experience of an ICU physician.

Moreover, Love Does Not Know Death is a roadmap for turning the most difficult moments of life into portals of healing, awakening, and love’s enduring truth.

Verdict: Blending the stories of patients and families with spiritual insights from A Course in Miracles, this book faces the fears of death and illness while showing how forgiveness transforms grief and anxiety into peace. Death is not the end but an invitation to awakening, a chance to release the illusion of separation and rediscover the permanence of love.

With clarity and compassion, Dr. Rizvi guides readers through the illusions of suffering and fear, offering practical exercises in forgiveness alongside deep metaphysical insight. Written for those facing illness, caregivers, spiritual seekers, and anyone grieving a loved one, it offers not just comfort but a path to inner freedom.

Author Adam Rizvi, MD is a critical care physician and neurointensivist whose frontline work in America’s ICUs and decades of contemplative study dutifully converge in this expansively enthralling new book.

A luminous guide to meeting mortality without fear, it lovingly draws on hundreds of bedside encounters and through a clear, accessible integration of non‑dual principles from A Course in Miracles, the book translates hard‑won insight into practical tools - especially the discipline of true forgiveness, that help patients, families, and clinicians face loss with courage, clarity, and compassion.

To give you some insight into the author of this magnificently sculpted, intriguingly comprehensive book, Adam Rizvi is one of those rare healers who not only has the ability and credentials to function brilliantly in the normal everyday world of traditional medicine but also has an advanced grasp of metaphysics.

That is something that is taboo to most doctors, though not necessarily their patients. This allows Adam to have quality communications with all types of patients as well as non-patients. And with both an approach to healing, and a personality that are based on love and joining rather than suspicion and separation, he was able to write this book.

As Adam Rizvi, MD himself explains, death is not an end. It is a continuation. The fear we carry around about our own death is based on a misunderstanding so profound it colors all aspects of life. And facing that fear is actually the key to experiencing true life.

Being a critical care physician, Adam Rizvi, MD has been at hundreds of deathbeds and thus has himself witnessed the many sacred, and often striking ways people die. He has seen many die in terror and pain, but he has also seen others welcome death with serene foreheads and gentle smiles.

So what empowers some and not others to embrace the great mystery we call death with such grace? Therein lies the crux of the prose within this book for these questions have been part of an ongoing journey which began for him with existential doubt as a young adult. Later it led to a deeper conviction, of the continuity of life.

And so now he has seen enough to know unquestionably that death is simply a layover on a vast journey of awakening. In closing, this new book is an informative page turner, which allows the author to lovingly embrace the subject matter to hand. He reveals that life and death are all part of our existence, sure, but moreover he showcases his personal experiences that clearly highlight living in the light of true forgiveness doesn’t mean that death is the culminative end for us. For love continues forever.

About the Author - Dr. Adam Rizvi is a critical care physician and neurologist whose work bridges medicine and non-dual wisdom. Author of Love Does Not Know Death, he draws from years in the ICU and decades of contemplative study to show how forgiveness transforms fear into peace. He lives in California, where he teaches, writes, and co-hosts the podcast Letters to the Sky.

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