Hans Olierook

Currently (2026), Hans is 61 years old and has worked in healthcare for 37 years as a psychiatric, clinical, geriatric, and palliative registered nurse.

Twelve to fifteen nights a month, for nine long years in night shifts, he sat by the bedside of a dying client for 8 hours per shift, allowing the family to sleep peacefully through the night.

As a contracted nurse, these were active waking shifts. This meant that, in most cases, active process monitoring was required for the client in question.

During those 9 years, Hans gained a wealth of knowledge and experience, witnessing events that are highly extraordinary within standard healthcare.

This unique knowledge and experience, combined with remarkable stories, led to the development of a 4-hour training course on "End-of-Life Care in Practice." Hans has also given presentations as a keynote speaker at conferences in the Netherlands, regarding these training courses and their distinct content.

However, all of this knowledge and insight cannot be fully captured in a one-hour conference presentation, nor even within the 4-hour training sessions.

So he decided to write a book about it. "Dying, the last miracle of Life" explains the entire process—the wondrous way in which the body shuts itself down in preparation for death.