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Near Death Experiences?
Do any of you know someone personally who's had a near death experience?
Just curious.
Probably the closest I've got is that my grandma (father's mother) was dying in a hospital. She had been unconscious for roughly a week. A nurse told my aunt that she came in one time (close to the end) and my grandma was talking. The nurse asked her who she was talking to, and my grandma said she was talking to her son David, right there on the bed. David was my dad, who had died about 7 months earlier. The nurse asked my aunt later if my grandma had a son named David, and my aunt told her that she did, but he had just recently died.
Re: Near Death Experiences?
Hmmm. Maybe?
I find it so interesting that Steve Jobs said, "oh wow, oh wow, oh wow" and was looking over his family's shoulders when he died. I wonder what he saw/felt. And I hope he really did say "oh wow" and not "oh ow."
I know my dad had a really vivid dream two nights before he died. And even when he woke up, he was talking to my mom like he was still in the dream. But you know, I've walked into walls and said all kinds of kooky stuff when I'm in a sleep haze, so I don't know if there was anything remarkable about that experience.
He worked in a bakery and got burned in a fire -- he said he saw flowers and heard bells and only "came back" because an aunt was praying for him.
The day before my aunt died in hospice, she was perfectly coherent and clear (at this point she was on IV and liquid morphine so clear and coherent were not the norm). She sat up in bed and made a big fuss about how she was home and thanked everyone for keeping it just as it was--she even petted one of her cats.
She had a very calm evening and the next day was quite peaceful, then in the evening she dozed off and died in her sleep.
Awww. I like the story of your grandma talking to your dad.
My grandmother talks to her mother and sisters (all dead) all the time and has been doing it for more than a year. We think she is ready to go, but she's still here.
This is not reassuring.
When BF's mom was in the hospital dying from breast cancer she started talking to Jesus while he was there. He thought she was praying, but she said that Jesus came to her in her room and told her that everything will be okay and not to worry and that he would see her soon. BF said she seemed calm and at peace after that and she died a few days later.
My grandpa had a similar experience in the ICU the night he died. He talked to Jesus and his father (who he never really got along with) and they told him they would be seeing him soon and not to worry. My grandpa held out until just after midnight and died the same date as his father.
OMG What? The grim reaper or something coming for all these people? Ditto Kuus... definitely not reassuring in the slightest. Especially that she was screaming for him to get away.
Oh wow! That is so creepy!
oh my goodness, the black figure is so creepy!
When my grandmother was passing away she had hospice home care. My mom and aunt were in my grandma's bedroom and they saw a man in white enter her bedroom and they assumed it was a new hospice nurse. When they looked back up no one was there. That night my grandma woke up and sat straight up in bed (mind you, she had brain, lung and breast cancer and was so tired and sickly). My aunts said her face looked like she was 20 without a wrinkle. She said she saw grandpa slim and that everything was finally going to be ok. She passed away the next morning.
Also, a few weeks before she passed away my mom and grandma were in the car coming home from the dr or something. She had a super long driveway with a big gate. When my mom pulled up to the gate my grandma was gasping for breath with a really scared look on her face. My mom asked what she was seeing and my grandma was hysterical saying no one would believe her and she needed to pray right away. So I dont know what she saw but I made my mom promise that if she saw anything freaky she would tell me what it was!