Begging the one you love to try to do that is counterproductive and dangerous. You will know that the dying person’s silver cord has broken when the body ceases to breathe.ħ) Don’t try to get the attention of your newly-freed loved one! Once the silver cord is broken, there is no way to re-animate that body. Don’t be concerned if none of this happens for you, since it seems to be highly individual. If you are hugging your loved one at the right moment, you might feel the energy of that newly-freed being pass right through your body or if you are sitting by the bed, you might just feel a sense of lightness and even elation. This part is highly individual, though! Don’t be concerned if you don’t see anything.Ħ) You could feel your loved one leaving the body. That mist might seem to assemble into a human form that either lies or sits above the body, still attached to it by a glowing cord. A faintly glowing mist might appear above the chest and head area. You might even have a vision of the beautiful place where your loved one is soon to go, as if a wall of the room had dissolved and let you glimpse a whole new world beyond it.ĥ) You could see your loved one leaving the body. As Raymond Moody tells us in his wonderful 2010 book, Glimpses of Eternity, it is not uncommon for people at the bedside to glimpse a long-dead person or pet who has come to escort a loved one to the afterlife levels. As it comes closer, we sometimes witness seemingly impossible things: someone with end-stage dementia might begin to interact normally, or someone who is very weak might sit up vigorously and even stand.Ĥ) You may see deathbed visitors. When a person near death suddenly seems to improve, to be more lucid and have more bodily strength, then that is a sign that death can be expected soon. Instead, you might begin to observe what seems to be half of a telepathic conversation.ģ) There usually is a period of lucidity a day or so before the death event. Dying folks often stop communicating with the living once their deathbed visitors arrive, so as death approaches you may find that your reading or speaking isn’t wanted anymore. I have found that sometimes reading psalms or poetry is welcome. Your task is to listen, to answer questions, to offer love and comfort. No matter how the death may be affecting you, this is a major event for your loved one, so it is important to let him or her take the lead.Ģ) Some of the dying want to talk, but some don’t. It is impossible to generalize about any aspect of the process of dying because each of us handles it differently, and above all we want to be in control. And here are some additional points to keep in mind as you sit beside the bed:ġ) Death is highly individual. It can help for you to know how death feels to the person dying, so please read my previous blog post on that topic. We never began and we never will end, so the death of the body makes amazingly little difference to the person going through the experience.Įven knowing all of this, it still can be difficult to attend a death. All really is well! So even though it is difficult to be losing a loved one, don’t worry about the person who is dying.ģ) Nobody ever dies anyway! Our minds are part of eternal mind. If a body seems to be dying in pain, there is plentiful evidence that the mind is already happily out of that body and doesn’t feel its pain. Of course, as I admit in my previous blog post, getting to the point of death can be rough, but the death process itself is gentle and enjoyable. Death is almost never a real accident.Ģ) Dying is a pleasant and joyous experience. There is a lot of evidence that even what seem to be accidental deaths are planned exit points. We plan our lives before we are born in conjunction with our spirit guides and with those who will be important in this lifetime and their guides, and as part of that process we plan in two or three exit-points that our higher consciousness can choose to take once we have done as much as we can do in terms of learning and growing in this lifetime. Life can hold so much pain! Please know, though, that the afterlife evidence overwhelmingly indicates that:ġ) Virtually all deaths are planned. People who die unexpectedly or out of generational order are likely to distress their loved ones by the very act of dying. Of course, some deaths are going to feel tragic. Having talked last week about how it feels to die, let’s consider now the experience of being at the bedside of someone you love who is about to embark on that universal journey.
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