I work at a local hospital. During the midnight shifts when it is quiet, sometimes "activity" picks up in the front area and those of us (admitting, security) up front notice the increase in "visitors". Sometimes its shadows seen out of the corner of our eyes, but usually just the feeling that there are many people entering the building. This usually happens when someone is close to the end back on the ward. We laugh about it and enjoy the "company".
One particular patient was back in the ER close to death. He was alone in his room when I walked in. I felt as if I had to weave between the many, many, people in the room. The feeling in that room is one I will never forget; such peace, love, with a bit of excitement.
CarolineFebruary 26, 2018
Just before our brother in law died my husband gave him a Priesthood blessing of comfort and told him that his time on the Earth was done and that he could let go if he needed to go to the Spirit World. My husband got very choked up and took a few moments before he could finish speaking. Our brother in law was unconscious. He had Alzheimer's. My husband told me that during the blessing he became aware thst the room was full of our brother in laws deceased relatives who had come to take him into the Spirit World. My husband is completely blind. He saw them with his spiritual eyes. A few minutes later Eric opened his eyes and stared at the corner of the room then passed peacefully into the next life. I am sure he could see his loved ones waiting for him.
sandraFebruary 25, 2018
As my Mother lay dying in the Hospital she was not coherent at all, My Brother and I were the only ones in the room with her, suddenly she spoke to my Father who had passed away years before and said " Not now Voris, please let me stay a little longer" she passed away that evening, My Brother an I knew that our Father had come to take her home.
Tedra BallsFebruary 25, 2018
My mom is in the end stages of life having suffered a significant stroke on February 16, 2018. For the past few days she has told us that her three brothers (all deceased) have been with her. My sister witnessed her speaking to and looking at her brother Suel. Through this time Mom has been exceptionally lucid, answering all questions correctly, speaking with us, and even singing with us as we have gathered around her bed.
JNFebruary 9, 2018
My husband had two experiences: He was home on hospice. Five days prior to his passing I was helping him sit up in the morning on the edge of the bed. He was exceptionally alert the night before. He glanced behind me and said "there's a woman standing behind you and she's smiling." I asked who she was. He said he didn't know but she was shorter than I am and had dark hair. His second experience was about eleven years ago. He had a serious heart attack and was in the emergency room. At that time all the staff and visitors had left the room momentarily. He said he was above his bed looking down on his body. Then he found himself in a very spacious realm that was full of people. As he approached they all turned toward him and the thought was conveyed to him, "It is not your time. There is more work for you to do." Immediately he was back in his body.
JeanetteFebruary 9, 2018
My mother-in-law always wondered if it was really true what people said about people waiting for you when it’s your time to die. She was 92, in a coma and called her son to her side. She said Kenny, it is just like they said, it’s beautiful just like a picture, everyone is all in white and are happy and waiting for me to come. And she let go of his hand lightly and passed away with a smile.
Ben JonesFebruary 8, 2018
My father had suffered a head injury two years earlier and “hadn’t been all there” since then. My sister called to tell me that Dad was in the hospital with pneumonia and kidney failure and was expected to die soon. I drove my family nine hours to see him.
When we got to my father’s bedside, the doctor flashed a light in his eyes but there was no response. With my siblings we met with the doctor who said it was hopeless and recommended that we taper off treatments and let nature take its course. As a family we agreed.
I went back to my father’s beside and told him that I was going to take the kids back to the house and said that if he decided to leave in the meantime, it was okay because “Mom is waiting for you.” He began to twitch. I had barely gotten to his house when my sister called to say that Dad was failing fast. By the time I got back to the hospital, he was dead.
I have no doubt that my father heard me when I gave him permission to leave and that I will surely see him again in the next life.
PauletteFebruary 8, 2018
My dear Down Syndrome uncle was dying. He had lived with my parents for years. The Sunday evening before he died, my parents, aunt, uncle, and I were sitting in his room. I had my dachshund, Katey, on my lap. Billy had not been aware of anything for many days. He suddenly opened his eyes, looked up in a corner of the room, and said, "Mother, Father." I looked at my dog, Katey. She was intently staring at the same corner.
KSFebruary 7, 2018
Equally interesting is the idea that newborn babies and infants are visited by friends and deceased family members on the other side. My 3-month-old son routinely looks up at the ceiling when I put him against my shoulder, and his eyes are tracking something. He's done it since the first few weeks after his birth. My mother and father both passed away 2 and 3 years prior, so I always wonder if they come to visit him.
Sharon CookFebruary 7, 2018
I was an R.N. working in I.C.U. when my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We brought her to our home for care and to spend her last months of life. During her last morning, she would only have moments of semi-consciousness. I laid down on the bed with her and placed my arm under her head. She whispered a few words but they were clear enough for me to understand. She said "Mama, Thelma, Helen." Thelma was her closest sister that had died and Helen was her childhood and adult friend for much of her life and Helen had died also. I couldn't see them, but I know that she did....her beloved mother, her favorite sister and a beloved friend came to escort her to her next home. She died on the 73rd anniversary of her birth. I have always been comforted by the knowledge that she was reunited, not only with my father but with these women she had so loved in life.
HalFebruary 7, 2018
My sister was a hospice nurse and told me time and again of similar experiences with her dying patients. My father was in a coma for several days when his eyes suddenly cleared and he distinctly asked "Where's mom?" and slipped away. My mother went in for a fairly routine heart surgery with a high rate of success, but prior to her going to the hospital, she had several vivid dreams of her younger sister who had died a year earlier. My mother died less than two weeks after her "successful" surgery. Five months later, when my youngest son was born, I distinctly felt the presence of my mother in the delivery room.
Unbelievers can say anything they want about "residual synaptic syndrome" and "survival reflex" to describe the brains "last fling" before dissolution, but I am convinced we continue to live on after the death of our mortal bodies.
MelindaFebruary 7, 2018
My husband was in the last throes of ALS when we made the decision to remove his breathing equipment. He was medicated to ease the passing and slipping away from us. The last thing he spoke, eyes closed, was "I'll go with you, but not yet." His brother and sister believe he was speaking to their mother. He died a few hours later, surrounded by family.
Daddy’s GirlFebruary 7, 2018
My Dad lived alone and passed away unexpectedly, so he was alone when he died. I knew that someone would have been sent to greet him and guide him through the transition, but wondered who that would have been, as most of his family members needed temple ordinances done for them still. I had an experience a couple of years later in the temple while completing ordinances for family members where I was told which family member had been with my Dad when he died. And that not only had he been with him then, but that he had also been with him and helped him through difficult times throughout his life. I always believed that my Dad wouldn’t have been left alone, but it was comforting to me to have that absolute reassurance that someone he knew and who loved him was there to help him in that moment when we (his living family members) weren’t able to.
Wendy WarneFebruary 7, 2018
A couple of days before my dear Mum passed away, she was very heavily sedated and it was like she was holding one sided conversations, she would answer yes or no to questions my sisters and I put to her but was chatting away to someone unseen to us. Suddenly she as plain as day said the name of a Relief Society president that had died some years before. I said Mum is Jacquie there and she said no. I think maybe she was told who her escort would be to take her home
JennFebruary 6, 2018
My mom experienced an NDE after a major heart attack. She died three times that night, but only had the one experience. It was probably when she died for the longest which was for nine minutes before they brought her back.
She was wearing a white dress and was skinny! She was heavy set. She said it was warm. She went down a tunnel of light. All of a sudden there was a door in front of her. Although she couldn't see them she felt her Mother and her sister, waiting for her on the other side. However, they could not open the door for her. Some how she knew that if she opened the door she wouldn't go back into her body. She was giving the choice to die or go back. She almost went through the door, but chose to come back instead.
She lived another six years after this incident.
LexaGraemeFebruary 6, 2018
I was with an agnostic friend and his family at his mother’s deathbed; she’d been fighting cancer, and all knew it was a matter of time. I became aware of at least two, but I think three, beings in the room that I could not see. They were there, and they were waiting patiently, but the overwhelming joy they brought in their anticipation washed over on to me, and I could not help but sob from it. My friend misunderstood my tears, thinking they were from sorrow. After several attempts to reassure him this was not the case, I finally took him into the hallway and said, “Your mother is surrounded by people who love her. Not all of them are alive.” He wrapped his arms around me—it was what he had needed to hear.
BEVERLY BARNT MOOREFebruary 6, 2018
1956 ON GOOD FRIDAY I SAT BY MY GRANDMOTHER'S BED AS SHE WAS DYING. SHE WOULD SPEAK AND KNOW US THEN DOZE OFF AND SUDDENLY AWAKE AND CALL OUT HER DEAD HUSBAND'S PET NAME AND SMILE AND FLIRT LIKE A YOUNG GIRL. I WAS A RECENT WIDOW AT 18 AND I KNEW INSTANTLY THE FIRST TIME SHE WAS SEEING HER LOVE AND HE WAS THERE TO MEET HER. IT GAVE ME HOPE TO CARRY ON WITHOUT MY DEAR LOVED ONE. I AM NOW SEALED TO DONNIE AND KNOW HE IS WAITING TO LEAD ME HOME WHEN MY TIME COMES.
Diane WebbUFC8February 6, 2018
When my younger Sister lay dying in a Dallas hospital (lukemia) my youngest Sister sat at her bedside. As Judy passed my youngest Sister felt my mother's hand on her shoulder as mother taking Judy by the hand took her with her. My mother preceded Judy in death. by 26 hours. Do I believe my youngest sister's story,absolutely. Judy and mother were very close and Judy had cared for mother for as long as she physically could before mom was placed in the nursing home where.she passed with my eldest Sister at her bedside.
Regina KohutekFebruary 6, 2018
My father-in-law did not believe in God. He came to live with us when he became a widower with Alzheimer's. The 6days before he died he was in a coma like state. The morning before he died, I walked into his to see his laying there with his eyes wide open, his arms extended to the ceiling and a huge smile on his face. I could sense we were not alone in his room. After 10 min, he lapsed back into his coma and later died.
ShareeFebruary 6, 2018
When my mother was in her final week of ife, she spoke often to her older sister and to y dad. I'm sure they were preparing to greet her when she passed. Tee day before she died, when some friends were visiting with her, she was talking to my dad and sid, "Not yet." I think the veil is very thin at such times and I truly believe that my father and my aunt were both there with her helping her make the transition.
Blaine BorrowmanFebruary 6, 2018
When my mom was about to die, she was in a coma when she suddenly sat up, eyes wide open, searching above her head, and saying, "Papa! Papa!" Then she stopped and lay back down, and died.
AngelaFebruary 6, 2018
I was sitting by my father's deathbed, when I became aware of two heavenly beings standing close by the bed. I couldn't see them, and I didn't know who they were, but I knew they were there and I knew they were there to help my father make the transition into another life. Barely a few minutes later my father, who was in a coma, breathed his last and his spirit passed beyond this life. I became aware that I could no longer sense the presence of the heavenly visitors and knew that they were guiding him through the transition.
NatashaFebruary 6, 2018
The day my mother died the last thing she said was "I hear Oreo". Oreo is the name of our beloved cat who died exactly one year earlier to the day. I found great comfort in knowing my mother was greated by a pet she dearly loved.
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ALSMarch 1, 2018
I work at a local hospital. During the midnight shifts when it is quiet, sometimes "activity" picks up in the front area and those of us (admitting, security) up front notice the increase in "visitors". Sometimes its shadows seen out of the corner of our eyes, but usually just the feeling that there are many people entering the building. This usually happens when someone is close to the end back on the ward. We laugh about it and enjoy the "company". One particular patient was back in the ER close to death. He was alone in his room when I walked in. I felt as if I had to weave between the many, many, people in the room. The feeling in that room is one I will never forget; such peace, love, with a bit of excitement.
CarolineFebruary 26, 2018
Just before our brother in law died my husband gave him a Priesthood blessing of comfort and told him that his time on the Earth was done and that he could let go if he needed to go to the Spirit World. My husband got very choked up and took a few moments before he could finish speaking. Our brother in law was unconscious. He had Alzheimer's. My husband told me that during the blessing he became aware thst the room was full of our brother in laws deceased relatives who had come to take him into the Spirit World. My husband is completely blind. He saw them with his spiritual eyes. A few minutes later Eric opened his eyes and stared at the corner of the room then passed peacefully into the next life. I am sure he could see his loved ones waiting for him.
sandraFebruary 25, 2018
As my Mother lay dying in the Hospital she was not coherent at all, My Brother and I were the only ones in the room with her, suddenly she spoke to my Father who had passed away years before and said " Not now Voris, please let me stay a little longer" she passed away that evening, My Brother an I knew that our Father had come to take her home.
Tedra BallsFebruary 25, 2018
My mom is in the end stages of life having suffered a significant stroke on February 16, 2018. For the past few days she has told us that her three brothers (all deceased) have been with her. My sister witnessed her speaking to and looking at her brother Suel. Through this time Mom has been exceptionally lucid, answering all questions correctly, speaking with us, and even singing with us as we have gathered around her bed.
JNFebruary 9, 2018
My husband had two experiences: He was home on hospice. Five days prior to his passing I was helping him sit up in the morning on the edge of the bed. He was exceptionally alert the night before. He glanced behind me and said "there's a woman standing behind you and she's smiling." I asked who she was. He said he didn't know but she was shorter than I am and had dark hair. His second experience was about eleven years ago. He had a serious heart attack and was in the emergency room. At that time all the staff and visitors had left the room momentarily. He said he was above his bed looking down on his body. Then he found himself in a very spacious realm that was full of people. As he approached they all turned toward him and the thought was conveyed to him, "It is not your time. There is more work for you to do." Immediately he was back in his body.
JeanetteFebruary 9, 2018
My mother-in-law always wondered if it was really true what people said about people waiting for you when it’s your time to die. She was 92, in a coma and called her son to her side. She said Kenny, it is just like they said, it’s beautiful just like a picture, everyone is all in white and are happy and waiting for me to come. And she let go of his hand lightly and passed away with a smile.
Ben JonesFebruary 8, 2018
My father had suffered a head injury two years earlier and “hadn’t been all there” since then. My sister called to tell me that Dad was in the hospital with pneumonia and kidney failure and was expected to die soon. I drove my family nine hours to see him. When we got to my father’s bedside, the doctor flashed a light in his eyes but there was no response. With my siblings we met with the doctor who said it was hopeless and recommended that we taper off treatments and let nature take its course. As a family we agreed. I went back to my father’s beside and told him that I was going to take the kids back to the house and said that if he decided to leave in the meantime, it was okay because “Mom is waiting for you.” He began to twitch. I had barely gotten to his house when my sister called to say that Dad was failing fast. By the time I got back to the hospital, he was dead. I have no doubt that my father heard me when I gave him permission to leave and that I will surely see him again in the next life.
PauletteFebruary 8, 2018
My dear Down Syndrome uncle was dying. He had lived with my parents for years. The Sunday evening before he died, my parents, aunt, uncle, and I were sitting in his room. I had my dachshund, Katey, on my lap. Billy had not been aware of anything for many days. He suddenly opened his eyes, looked up in a corner of the room, and said, "Mother, Father." I looked at my dog, Katey. She was intently staring at the same corner.
KSFebruary 7, 2018
Equally interesting is the idea that newborn babies and infants are visited by friends and deceased family members on the other side. My 3-month-old son routinely looks up at the ceiling when I put him against my shoulder, and his eyes are tracking something. He's done it since the first few weeks after his birth. My mother and father both passed away 2 and 3 years prior, so I always wonder if they come to visit him.
Sharon CookFebruary 7, 2018
I was an R.N. working in I.C.U. when my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We brought her to our home for care and to spend her last months of life. During her last morning, she would only have moments of semi-consciousness. I laid down on the bed with her and placed my arm under her head. She whispered a few words but they were clear enough for me to understand. She said "Mama, Thelma, Helen." Thelma was her closest sister that had died and Helen was her childhood and adult friend for much of her life and Helen had died also. I couldn't see them, but I know that she did....her beloved mother, her favorite sister and a beloved friend came to escort her to her next home. She died on the 73rd anniversary of her birth. I have always been comforted by the knowledge that she was reunited, not only with my father but with these women she had so loved in life.
HalFebruary 7, 2018
My sister was a hospice nurse and told me time and again of similar experiences with her dying patients. My father was in a coma for several days when his eyes suddenly cleared and he distinctly asked "Where's mom?" and slipped away. My mother went in for a fairly routine heart surgery with a high rate of success, but prior to her going to the hospital, she had several vivid dreams of her younger sister who had died a year earlier. My mother died less than two weeks after her "successful" surgery. Five months later, when my youngest son was born, I distinctly felt the presence of my mother in the delivery room. Unbelievers can say anything they want about "residual synaptic syndrome" and "survival reflex" to describe the brains "last fling" before dissolution, but I am convinced we continue to live on after the death of our mortal bodies.
MelindaFebruary 7, 2018
My husband was in the last throes of ALS when we made the decision to remove his breathing equipment. He was medicated to ease the passing and slipping away from us. The last thing he spoke, eyes closed, was "I'll go with you, but not yet." His brother and sister believe he was speaking to their mother. He died a few hours later, surrounded by family.
Daddy’s GirlFebruary 7, 2018
My Dad lived alone and passed away unexpectedly, so he was alone when he died. I knew that someone would have been sent to greet him and guide him through the transition, but wondered who that would have been, as most of his family members needed temple ordinances done for them still. I had an experience a couple of years later in the temple while completing ordinances for family members where I was told which family member had been with my Dad when he died. And that not only had he been with him then, but that he had also been with him and helped him through difficult times throughout his life. I always believed that my Dad wouldn’t have been left alone, but it was comforting to me to have that absolute reassurance that someone he knew and who loved him was there to help him in that moment when we (his living family members) weren’t able to.
Wendy WarneFebruary 7, 2018
A couple of days before my dear Mum passed away, she was very heavily sedated and it was like she was holding one sided conversations, she would answer yes or no to questions my sisters and I put to her but was chatting away to someone unseen to us. Suddenly she as plain as day said the name of a Relief Society president that had died some years before. I said Mum is Jacquie there and she said no. I think maybe she was told who her escort would be to take her home
JennFebruary 6, 2018
My mom experienced an NDE after a major heart attack. She died three times that night, but only had the one experience. It was probably when she died for the longest which was for nine minutes before they brought her back. She was wearing a white dress and was skinny! She was heavy set. She said it was warm. She went down a tunnel of light. All of a sudden there was a door in front of her. Although she couldn't see them she felt her Mother and her sister, waiting for her on the other side. However, they could not open the door for her. Some how she knew that if she opened the door she wouldn't go back into her body. She was giving the choice to die or go back. She almost went through the door, but chose to come back instead. She lived another six years after this incident.
LexaGraemeFebruary 6, 2018
I was with an agnostic friend and his family at his mother’s deathbed; she’d been fighting cancer, and all knew it was a matter of time. I became aware of at least two, but I think three, beings in the room that I could not see. They were there, and they were waiting patiently, but the overwhelming joy they brought in their anticipation washed over on to me, and I could not help but sob from it. My friend misunderstood my tears, thinking they were from sorrow. After several attempts to reassure him this was not the case, I finally took him into the hallway and said, “Your mother is surrounded by people who love her. Not all of them are alive.” He wrapped his arms around me—it was what he had needed to hear.
BEVERLY BARNT MOOREFebruary 6, 2018
1956 ON GOOD FRIDAY I SAT BY MY GRANDMOTHER'S BED AS SHE WAS DYING. SHE WOULD SPEAK AND KNOW US THEN DOZE OFF AND SUDDENLY AWAKE AND CALL OUT HER DEAD HUSBAND'S PET NAME AND SMILE AND FLIRT LIKE A YOUNG GIRL. I WAS A RECENT WIDOW AT 18 AND I KNEW INSTANTLY THE FIRST TIME SHE WAS SEEING HER LOVE AND HE WAS THERE TO MEET HER. IT GAVE ME HOPE TO CARRY ON WITHOUT MY DEAR LOVED ONE. I AM NOW SEALED TO DONNIE AND KNOW HE IS WAITING TO LEAD ME HOME WHEN MY TIME COMES.
Diane WebbUFC8February 6, 2018
When my younger Sister lay dying in a Dallas hospital (lukemia) my youngest Sister sat at her bedside. As Judy passed my youngest Sister felt my mother's hand on her shoulder as mother taking Judy by the hand took her with her. My mother preceded Judy in death. by 26 hours. Do I believe my youngest sister's story,absolutely. Judy and mother were very close and Judy had cared for mother for as long as she physically could before mom was placed in the nursing home where.she passed with my eldest Sister at her bedside.
Regina KohutekFebruary 6, 2018
My father-in-law did not believe in God. He came to live with us when he became a widower with Alzheimer's. The 6days before he died he was in a coma like state. The morning before he died, I walked into his to see his laying there with his eyes wide open, his arms extended to the ceiling and a huge smile on his face. I could sense we were not alone in his room. After 10 min, he lapsed back into his coma and later died.
ShareeFebruary 6, 2018
When my mother was in her final week of ife, she spoke often to her older sister and to y dad. I'm sure they were preparing to greet her when she passed. Tee day before she died, when some friends were visiting with her, she was talking to my dad and sid, "Not yet." I think the veil is very thin at such times and I truly believe that my father and my aunt were both there with her helping her make the transition.
Blaine BorrowmanFebruary 6, 2018
When my mom was about to die, she was in a coma when she suddenly sat up, eyes wide open, searching above her head, and saying, "Papa! Papa!" Then she stopped and lay back down, and died.
AngelaFebruary 6, 2018
I was sitting by my father's deathbed, when I became aware of two heavenly beings standing close by the bed. I couldn't see them, and I didn't know who they were, but I knew they were there and I knew they were there to help my father make the transition into another life. Barely a few minutes later my father, who was in a coma, breathed his last and his spirit passed beyond this life. I became aware that I could no longer sense the presence of the heavenly visitors and knew that they were guiding him through the transition.
NatashaFebruary 6, 2018
The day my mother died the last thing she said was "I hear Oreo". Oreo is the name of our beloved cat who died exactly one year earlier to the day. I found great comfort in knowing my mother was greated by a pet she dearly loved.
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