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Throughout my years of working with the dying and the bereaved, I have noticed commonly shared experiences that remain beyond our ability to explain and fully understand. The first are visions.
As the dying see less of this world, some people appear to begin looking into the world to come.
When my grandfather was dying of cancer, he was lying in his bed in the living room and kept asking my grandmother what time it was. She would tell him, and then finally she said, "Why do you want to know what time it is?" He said, "Because I'm going home tomorrow." A few hours later he was staring at the wall and started yelling, "Tom! Tom! Wait for me. I'm coming!" Tom was a brother who had been dead for 20 years. He died the next morning just before sunrise. Doesn't "prove" anything, but it's not the first time I've heard of people seeing a deceased family member just before they die.
From what I understand, the spirits of deceased loved ones will greet those about to pass on so that they can help them acclimate to the new life. Once in the spirit world, each individual will go their own way according to their soul condition.
Throughout my years of working with the dying and the bereaved, I have noticed commonly shared experiences that remain beyond our ability to explain and fully understand. The first are visions.
As the dying see less of this world, some people appear to begin looking into the world to come.
Yup. I've witnessed this first-hand. My mind cannot be changed.
I also have been visited (not by a visible entity) but once in a dream by my best friend and three times by my mother while I was fully awake. Each episode was emotionally powerful beyond my ability to describe and reduced me to torrents of tears. But the resulting "cleansing" was profound. I am grateful for the sensitivity and somewhat trepidous of the result.
Do the dead greet the dying? No, I don't believe so.
I don't believe so, either. Not in the sense of the closing scenes of "Ghost", for example.
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