Do they dead greet the dying?

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I had this conversation with my son recently, who is an RN in the ER and ICU departments of two different hospitals.

He's seen several end-of-life experiences and has no explanation for it.

Dreams, visions or something else entirely? A topic I'm sure we won't all agree on, but interesting to discuss.
 

When my father was dying he looked up toward the ceiling light and my mother asked him what was he looking at and he said his best friend (whom he had known since childhood and had died) was visiting him. My mother asked what is he saying and my dad answered that his friend was giving him a bottle of liquor. He saw this friend a number of times. In life, they'd always gift each other with the most expensive liquors they could afford.

I lean toward it being an hallucination But, I myself have had strange sightings of stuff. Back to dad, whatever it was, it brought him comfort, so I am grateful.

eta--I hope to see my husband before I die, and I don't care if it's an hallucination as long as I believe it.
 
The dead frequently appear to us in our dreams. So why not at the end of life, as well? It doesn't mean they are really there; they are always present in our minds, and probably the stress of dying brings thoughts of them to the surface.

Also, some medications are known to bring vivid hallucinations of people who are long dead, standing at the foot of the bed watching over the person. It's actually sometimes listed as a side effect!
 
I'm of the opinion that they are natural hallucinations caused by chemicals released in the brain that help us to eliminate the fear and pain associated with dying. Something similar to the euphoria that runners experience or the shock that blocks the pain caused by serious accidents or injuries.
 
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Years ago, doing volunteer work at a local Catholic hospital. When patients were close to death, they often refused drugs. One day I got "trapped" in a room with a woman who was dying. The priest came in and some of her relatives. She started whispering, naming off
the dead relatives she was seeing and talking back to.

She gasped, and with a surprised look in her eyes, said "Bertie, now what are you doing here?". Then she died. Well, you could have heard a pin drop in the room. Her daughter said to the priest..."how could she know?", Gertie (her sister) had been killed in an auto accident shortly before and they'd chosen not to upset her by telling her.

Don't tell me our loved ones don't meet us on the other side. Have had too many experiences to to not realize that fact.
 
My father sure was counting on seeing my mother, I think it's the only thing that kept him from too much fear during his last days. I have no trouble believing that you see those people if you really want to. In Heaven (or whatever you call it) there may not be much difference between real and imagined.
 
I, too, like Gaer & Liberty have had many experiences. I don't accept them as proof, although they sure seem to be. Put it this way, if it's Truth, it's Truth and that has nothing to do with my opinions. "Logic" -- although I'm no master of that -- tells me otherwise.
 
I, too, like Gaer & Liberty have had many experiences. I don't accept them as proof, although they sure seem to be. Put it this way, if it's Truth, it's Truth and that has nothing to do with my opinions.

Without going into detail, and having people tell me it can't be ... I too cannot deny what I have experienced ... It was there, it was real, and absolutely no one can tell me otherwise.
 
As far as I know, there exists zero evidence of an "afterlife." None. There are plenty of personal anecdotes, such as have been mentioned above, but nothing that can be examined or tested, nothing that can be verified or falsified. Just stories.
 
As far as I know, there exists zero evidence of an "afterlife." None. There are plenty of personal anecdotes, such as have been mentioned above, but nothing that can be examined or tested, nothing that can be verified or falsified. Just stories.
Don't think those that choose to be negative would ever believe in the higher dimensions.
So be it. Think there are 3rd dimensional and 4th dimensional people on the face of the earth now. The 4th dimensional people do realize and have experienced the subtle higher dimensions and are becoming more and more aware...the veil is becoming thinner and thinner.
 
When my mother was in the hospital on her deathbed and
I walked in, she really thought that I was my father who had
died about 10 years before.

I thought at the time that she was confused, but who knows,
perhaps the dead do visit through somebody else and make
that person look like they do, at least to the one passing.

Mike.
 
This happened to me the day my mom died
I heard her voice calling me,got out of bed walked in the living room knowing she wasn't there,she was in NH. When my brother called,I asked what time she died,he said 2:30am. I heard her at 4.I know she was telling me everything would be ok I swear on Bible it happened wasn't a dream
 
I saw this many times w/my mother and father, who both died at home. Here with me.

I was standing in my Dad's doorway, when all of a sudden he extended his hand out to me and called me 'Mama ______, our last name. I stood there for a minute, then approached him in bed and took his hand and just held it in mine.

He saw his father and brother, weird stuff.

And, he wasn't on any medication
 
I said " . . . there exists zero evidence of an "afterlife" . . . "
Liberty said "Don't think those that choose to be negative would ever believe in the higher dimensions."



It's not negative to point out that there's no evidence for something, or to ask for evidence when claims are made.

Even in daily life, with respect to trivial matters, I do not understand why anyone believes anything without evidence. If someone offers you an investment opportunity, don't you want all the details before you hand over your money? If someone said he's a spectacular gymnast, or a fabulous musician, wouldn't you want to see a little demonstration before before believing him?

Yet here, talking about the very nature of reality - - is there an afterlife, do the dead visit the living, are there unseen dimensions - - people seem willing to base their most fundamental beliefs on nothing. Or perhaps they've forgotten the distinction between their hopes and their beliefs.

I'm not choosing to be negative. I'm saying that such questions are unanswerable due to a lack of evidence.
 
I have three brothers, one of which was always the 'odd one out', completely different in looks and temperament from the rest of us. I never really thought much of it but, shortly after my father died, he 'spoke' to me and told me that after his death he had discovered that my mother had betrayed him with another man, and the 'odd' son wasn't actually his at all.
That is enough to convince me that it is only the body which dies.
 


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