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Can Death Be Described by The Dying?

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Submitted Thursday, October 15, 2009
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( Because I always share the good things with you my SearchWarp Friends, I wanted to share this event with you, an event that started off being sad, but then, well, here is what happened)

The spell was now broken. Weeks of waiting, feeling anxious and absolutely frozen dissolved in that instant. (Jim couldn't sleep at night and all I wanted to do was sleep day and night.)

It wasn't at all like it appears in the movies. There were no scary sounds. The room was filled with a haze of unreality and sweetness. I gulped the sweet relief and let it seep through my consciousness, when I was able to shake myself from this "dream-like" state; I reached for Jim's hand.

"I think he is gone," I heard my sister-in-law murmur.

For the first time in my life, I witnessed the birth of a soul a soul being born in another place, another dimensiona brand-new life. John, my husband's brother had just passed on. It was such an amazing moment! I will never again be hesitant about being with a loved one who is making this transition.

1 Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley are two hospice nurses who carefully recorded and organized their experiences with the dying. Their book, "Final Gifts" provides much insight into the needs of both loved ones and those who are facing death. Their book identifies several recurring themes in the language of those who are terminally ill.

Specifically, the messages of the dying fall into two basic categories, according to Calanan and Kelley: attempts by the ill one to describe what it is the dying one is experiencing, and requests for something that a person needs for a peaceful death. Typically, the one in transition attempts to include their loved ones in visions. Some visions are of other loved ones who have moved beyond. Others are descriptions of spiritual beings whom they attest are there to help them with the transition. Interestingly, Calanan and Kelley's experiences report that these encounters leave the ill one with an absence of fear; instead, the dying express concern for those who will be left behind.

Sometimes, the visions include distant, even unknown places. However , attempts to describe these places tend to be impossible for the ill one to describe adequately, unless what they describe is of a place to which they have traveled in the past. What is common in both experiences is a sense of awe and wonderment in the detail and beauty of the places, despite not always being able to describe what it is that was seen.

John Oxenham said, "For death begins with life's first breath and life begins at touch of death."

1 http://www.essortment.com/all/dyingfamilymem_rljy.htm


Francine Larson:
Co-Author of Character Keys to a Bright Future.

She is currently writing for The Pasco Shopper (Fl.) and The Highlands at Scotland Yards.  Also writes poetry and short stories.She has a new personal web site:http://thedragonflylady.com/
She also gives tips on manners for children at: http://www.magicalmanners.com/magicalmannersforchildren  

 
 
 



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