My husband died at home.one week before Christmas. He had a blessed death. No fear, no pain, in his own bed. Our kitty sat by his side, hardly leaving except to eat and then she returned to him. The priest gave him the Last Rites of the Catholic Church and he seemed almost happy. He seemed to be experiencing great calm. He was ready to go home to Jesus Christ. I miss him, but hope to be with him in hewven one day.
@@a.t.c.3862 This Prot died while swimming my laps at the YMCA. For 27 minutes I was blue flat line DEAD. Woke up 3 days later. I dont believe the Catholic Church
Roy Castle told his wife as he was dying in hospital that he could see a beautiful garden, unlike any on earth. That Jesus stood at its gate, arms wide open to call him. On the other hand, Stalin, was supposed to have sat up and waved his fist in fury at some unseen spectre.
My grandma saw Jesus in a dream before she passed. She woke in the morning and was awestruck. When my mom asked why, she said she saw Jesus, and He told her she was coming home. She passed away 5 days later. I pray that she and my mom are in Heaven with all our family.
My grandfather had a deathbed vision two years ago just prior to his death. He mentioned that his uncle (who has been dead for many decades) came to visit him the previous night. He didn’t say anything else that was “off.”
My grandfather thought the 2nd coming was happening at one point. He also saw a woman holding a baby and told my mother he thought it was the Virgin Mary. My grandfather was not Catholic, he was a lifelong protestant.
Different family members told him to take Jesus hand when he came for him. My aunt was the only one with him when he died, he reached up with his right hand and then died.
My mother's mother died when Mom was a teen. Mom said Grandma kept trying to sit up as she was looking at something at the foot of her bed and kept repeating, "It's so beautiful!" My stepdad continuously saw visions in the week before he died. He saw his deceased relatives and old friends, sometimes speaking of regret and repentance for this or that disagreement. One time he saw his favorite schoolteacher, and started telling about how she used to take him to her mother's house for pancake breakfasts. He was saying she made the best pancakes, and then said, "Oh she's here! My schoolteacher's mother is here! She says she's going to make pancakes for me!" He got as excited as a little boy about to get a treat, and then suddenly stopped and asked my Mom, "Can I have pancakes where I'm going?" Mom said, "Sure," and he got all excited again. He was just like a little kid, saying, "Oh boy! I'm going to get some pancakes!" I hope he did.
My mother died at 12:06 am, but I was kicked out of the ICU at 9pm. She didn't know who I was but she said I had pretty perfume. I was not wearing any perfume.
Fr. Robert Spitzer has talked on the subject of Near Death Experiences and shared some very interesting stories. When I was a kid, my friend's mom had a near death experience and she mentioned seeing her deceased mother.
My mother in law was visited by the angel who told her that she is going to die in June...that happend several months before her death... I think he also told her precise date but I am not sure if that was correct...but she eventually did died in June
My mom wasn't on any painkillers. She had emphysema and congestive heart failure, but she was feeling well, wanted to go home from the hospital. My sister brought my mom's bills she had asked for to her and my mom was sorting the bills on her hospital bed bedspread. My mom said she heard a beautiful choir and saw men with long beards standing around the room wearing robes. No one thought she was dying. The nurse gave her a dose of steroids and, as she fell back against the pillow and seemed to fall asleep, she said, "Help me." My sister thought she went to sleep, and went home. The hospital called and said mom had passed.
Mum says she saw her mum, this was a few weeks before she died. She was on pain meds but she'd been on them for a while and nothing until that time. It happened twice in close succession. She was very aware at that time and was discussing it with me trying to figure out what it could mean
@MichaelMarshall8686 Just a little clarification. What did you mean to say exactly with: //she'd been on them for a while and nothing until that time.// How long did it pass between the "last while and the until"? ____________ Your phrase: She was on pain meds but she'd been on them for a while and nothing until that time./
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Toward the end of her life, my Aunt Marci shared a deathbed experience to all would come to visit her: "I am not worthy." Obviously, she had a vision of heaven and being the holy wife and mother that she was, the thought, that if she considered herself - not worthy, where does that leave me? Answer: guess I gotta change my life!
We have a whole episode of Mysterious World coming out on Deathbed Visions! It's Episode 318, and it will be coming out the last Friday this month (June 28th)!
Twice in my life, I overdosed on a drug. I had an out-of-body experience; it was so real. In both cases, I felt as though I was going to die. I know I came very close in both cases. It felt so real. It may have been an attempt by my brain to make sense of the chaotic neural activity, or it may have meant more because I was trying to fly to my old workplace, where I had a major unresolved issue that needed closure.
Thank you for signing my copy of your book, The Bible is a Catholic Book, last Saturday. I hope that you got my email link on the video that I told you about.
I was a hospice RN. I had several patients with deathbed visions. Most were on minimal opioids & it happened well before the active dying stage. For the most part the visions calmed the patients, though sometimes frightened the family if they weren’t prepared. Patients on heavy doses of opioids didn’t report visions or very rarely did. Did it suppress them? 🤷🏼♀️
My recently deceased Mom was a hospice nurse for many decades, only retiring around age 75. She had some stories, as you understand. I wasn't able to be with her much in the two months leading to her death, because I work in schools, and there was so much illness going around, and I caught something every week. In those two months, she declined so much, and her bones were breaking. She was on strong pain meds, and family who were with her said she was just loopy and not making any sense. She wanted to die at home, but needed stronger pain medication than she could get at home. She declined so quickly that hospice care couldn't be set up in time. I'm sure it was a combination of the extreme pain coupled with her inability to sit up very often, leading to lung congestion and infection. I hope I didn't bring her any chest cold on the single weekend when I didn't think I had any illness, but started coughing on Monday. That was the same week her rapid decline started. Anyway, I did go to the hospital, and the room was full of people paying their respects and saying goodbye. I went to her bedside, and she said, "It's _you_ ! I want one." After some more words, she was finally able to tell me what she wanted: "Jesus." She had for years been saying that when my brother died, I prayed him into heaven, because I prayed the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet almost continuously. So I prayed the Divine Mercy Chaplet at her beside. I wanted to pray the Rosary, but it was too chaotic and there was so much commotion with all the conversation. And few if any of the family that was present believe that prayer at deathbed is necessary, so the spirit was oppressive. One of Mom's hospice stories that has stood out in my memory for decades was when one of her patients had his family call her to the house, because he was suffering great anxiety. He told her he knew he was dying that night. She asked him if that would be a bad thing, and he told her no. But still, he was anxious. So Mom asked him if he wanted to pray the Rosary with her, and he said yes. He died while they were praying. Mom said it was the most beautiful and peaceful death she had been part of in all her years as a hospice nurse. I do wish I could have overcome that oppressive spirit to pray the Rosary in her room, but I knew the Divine Mercy Chaplet was the prayer she needed at that time*. May the Angels lead her to Paradise, where Lazarus the poor man is poor no longer 🙏🏻✝️🕊️ Editing to add that it's the promise of praying the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy in the presence of the dying that is what Mom needed. She had received the Last Rites, and the Apostolic Pardon, and in her final months, whenever I asked her what she wanted us to pray for on her behalf, she said, "Grace. Especially grace." And for many years I've been praying for all my family and extended family to be granted the grace of contrition , pardon for their sins, repentance (always needed), conversion (always ongoing), and final penitence (perseverance to run the race). So I trust that through the mercy of God, Mom is fully in His care.
Jimmy, how about contrasting the deathbed visions of HenryVIII's 2 daughters, Mary and Elizabeth? Elizabeth was tormented.... Mary saw an orchestra of little children
I wonder if there are any hardcore old folks out there that seek a natural death without painkillers or other medicines? I know you couldn’t bank on it, but I wonder if the potential reward could be a deathbed vision?
Jimmy, do you think there are philosophical problems with Darwinian Evolution? I have seen it pointed out that in the Darwinian model there is no distinction between substance and accidence. This cannot be the case because of the teaching on transubstantiantion.
I have a theory, as the brain begins to shut down approaching death these visions, images and sounds are a kinder softer way for the brain to exit consciousness encouraged by evolution as a peaceful exit from life. People have been dying since the beginning of time and this process is part of our DNA. Still an incredible, interesting topic. Guided by God, I’m not sure.
If there is a "heaven" and we get there do we "hang" with our loved ones (i.e. parents et al)? And afrer we are hanging with them a bit do we day hey I'll be back I'm going to check to hang with Elvis or George Washington or Christopher Columbus and all those great people throughout history?? Are there more "souls" hanging around those people?? And if not, in my opinion, outside of being with Christ, to some extent, it will be just like earth!! God Bless!!
I do not doubt that these things are real. However, due to the diversity, I wonder how much these experiences come from the DMT drop that happens to a body experiencing death.
With all the evidence coming in from diverse cultures around the world, I think it would be foolish not to take these incidents seriously. Eternity is a long time to be wrong about this.
If someone has a peaceful deathbed vision of non-Christian loved ones who have passed away, is that evidence against Christianity? If non-believers can be seen in such circumstances, what would be the point of Christian faith?
@Username55 Instead of entertaining those weird questions and answers, why don't you dig deeper in the whole content of Christianity, both historically and spiritually? Did you ever consider God the Father the Creator and yourself a creature?
@@kathyweiland4732 But people have deathbed visions in various places and cultures. For example a Hindu dying in India could see numerous dead relatives who were likely Hindus as well. Surely they did not all convert to Christianity on their death beds? It would seem to me that from a Christian perspective it would be more prudent to consider deathbed visions as a matter of brain chemistry rather than trying to make them fit with Christian ideas of an afterlife.
Having worked in Health care. Death bed visions - are one of two things. 1, medications that cause hallucinations 2 , chemicals that are released in the blood before death. Death is final and no after life - which if course keys into fictional expectations around unproven religious practices.
You’d think the brain would be lighting up like a pinball machine during these experiences, or with LSD trips etc, but the exact opposite is true. The brain is not nearly as active, yet the visions are highly evocative, meaningful, and colorful. This is still perplexing to neuroscience. Someone who has ‘flatlined’ during surgery should have waaaay less going on upstairs, right? That is what happens, yet the testimony of thousands upon thousands of people is of highly colorful, profound, meaningful experiences, and this is just among people deemed ‘dead’ before being brought back through medical intervention. They sometimes can tell doctors what they were saying to each other while they were flatlined on the table. If this is all ‘in the brain,’ then we should have correlated brain activity. So the question is, where are these experiences happening? If the brain could produce these ecstatic visions with far less brain activity, then evolutionarily it makes no sense for us to require these big brains we have. Again, neuroscience has no sufficient answers to these experiences in a strictly material concept of the universe.
@Rosiedelaroux //Death is final and no after life - which if course keys into fictional expectations around unproven religious practices.// Those are hazardous assertions in 2000+ years of Christianity for one who cannot prove the opposite either, wouldn't you think? 🤔
Having worked in healthcare, in hospice care in fact, my Mom was positive that dying people have deathbed visions. She first witnessed it when she was a teen girl at her mother's deathbed. She said my grandma was trying to sit up, was looking at something at the foot of her hospital bed, and kept saying, "It's so beautiful." That was before any nde stuff was known, in the early 1960s. Mom became an oncology nurse in a hospital, then worked in home health care, and finished her nursing career working in hospice care. She worked well into her 70s. She was present at many, many deaths, including my brother who predeceased her, and her husband a year after my brother. Her husband certainly had continuous visions in the week preceding his death, as I myself witnessed, and so did many others in the family.
