Deathbed visions **UPDATED**

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I think one of the most amazing and awesome threads that led me to this site was the huge Deathbed visions thread from 2006 and '08. It was very intriguing hearing all these deathbed vision stories from hospice nurses point of view. Most people don't really believe in afterlife experiences such as OBEs and NDE's. So hearing all of your stories first hand adds an element of realism for those who are extremely skeptic of things like that. And I enjoyed it so much. It really strengthed my faith in God.

Well, I've been waiting for so long to hear and see if anyone has any more deathbed stories to share. So I thought I'd make a new thread for fellow new members and old ones too to post their experiences with their patients having deathbed visions and passing on to the next life. Whatever story you have, new or old, please don't hesitate to post it here. :up:

Specializes in MED/SURG STROKE UNIT, LTC SUPER., IMU.

Wow Esme! Just WOW! What a wonderful story! Gave me goosebumps and made me smile all at the same time.

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Wow Esme! Just WOW! What a wonderful story! Gave me goosebumps and made me smile all at the same time.

Thank you.........And that's what nursing's all about......:yeah:

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My next story is a personal one......

My Grandma was 90 years old when she feel and broke her neck (odontoid fracture) while cleaning dust bunnies in the corner of her bedroom (yes she lived alone). How she didn't die right then and there I'll never know. After a few weeks in the hospital and a complicated course in the hospital with every complication imaginable......her deterioration was VERY apparent........we decided on no surgery and to bring Grammy home.

Grams had become very confused and fragile in stature, not nature...:uhoh3:. We set up a hospital bed in my Aunt living room and I slept her bedside 24/7 to keep her safe. Please don't think I'm crazy when I say this, but those were probably amongst the BEST times I have ever spent with her. She talked to Aunt's and Uncles, long since gone. She regularlary chewed my Grandfather a new rear end for one thing or another. She thought I was my mother and regularlary called me by her name. In the middle of the night we would have these family reunions as she removed her hard cervical collar and tapped it on the side rail and would ask incessantly....."Shirley? (tap, tap,tap) Shirley....... can I take this off??"

It was like we were replaying her life in fast forward. One night she got me up by rapping her C-Collar....she wanted "2 of them fresh eggs...poached, a ball game and a bottle of beer". Of which I complied. As several nights go by she started talking to my Grandfather more and more (who had been gone for 30 years or so) and they made a date for dinner at the end of the week.

The night before her "date" I woke up to hear her talking to someone on the couch. She was animated and happy but it was creepy because her answers were yes and no and thank you and I will...... When I asked her who she was talking to she scolded me to be quite and to respect my elders. She told "whomever" good bye and went to sleep and for the first time in weeks there was no family reunion at 3 am.

The next night I woke up to my Grammy smiling and reaching out for, I assume, my Pap......she said..."I 'm ready to go home now Dad..." she closed her eyes and passed away......:crying2:

And thsoe last few weeks were the best for me....I got to know relatives long since dead...I really do believe.

This is so beautiful, worth reading the post for. Thank you so much for sharing...:)

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Just recently we had an elderly gentleman who was actively dying and saw an angel and his wife who had passed 20 years ago. :D

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Reese 2012

One of my coworkers had suffered a massive MI. Over the course of the next 2 years, she would be in the hospital frequently in our ICU. I worked nights and we would talk about everything. At times we would pray, other times I would just sit with her if we wern't too crazy busy. I was going to be off over the weekend. She told me that she wasn't going to have a funeral or put her obit in the paper and that she was going to pass soon. Thurs. morning I hugged her, told her I loved her and that I would see her on Mon. Sat. night @ 1:30am I had a "dream" that she had come over to tell me good-bye and she would see me later. I found out Monday that it was the exact time she had passed.

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I am not a nurse but admire and respect you. I am also new to this site. My best friend of 30 years has been fight lung cancer and was recently told that there was nothing else that could be done for her. I went to see her tonight after work for a long overdue visit. she told me that she had not said anything to anyone else but for the last 2 weeks she has been seeing and sometimes interacting children in her room, their backs are turned and they are watching tv.

One little girl she decribed sounded very much like her as a child. I am wondering if anyone has heard of young children helping the dying to pass over?

I found this site from searching to maybe give her an answer, I read post 1 to the last of 97. Very touching experiences.

My mother passed at home with my brother and myself and i tell friends that are going through it, it's the last place I ever thought I would want to be and the only place i could be. I miss my mom. Thanks for any help in helping me comfort my friend, and partner in crime. God Bless you All for the work and caring you give everyday.

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Specializes in MED/SURG STROKE UNIT, LTC SUPER., IMU.

It is amazing all of the things we know that we don't know. I think God gives us the comfort that we need at a time when we need it the most. If this vision is comforting to her, then that may be all there is to it. Good luck and God Bless to you and your friend. Just be there for her, talk and hug!

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I am not a nurse but admire and respect you. I am also new to this site. My best friend of 30 years has been fight lung cancer and was recently told that there was nothing else that could be done for her. I went to see her tonight after work for a long overdue visit. she told me that she had not said anything to anyone else but for the last 2 weeks she has been seeing and sometimes interacting children in her room, their backs are turned and they are watching tv.

One little girl she decribed sounded very much like her as a child. I am wondering if anyone has heard of young children helping the dying to pass over?

I found this site from searching to maybe give her an answer, I read post 1 to the last of 97. Very touching experiences.

My mother passed at home with my brother and myself and i tell friends that are going through it, it's the last place I ever thought I would want to be and the only place i could be. I miss my mom. Thanks for any help in helping me comfort my friend, and partner in crime. God Bless you All for the work and caring you give everyday.

I think we all have our own special angles that come to guide us on our next stage of life. I have had many patients speak of children in the weeks leading to their final hours. My Dad also saw children that were not relatives on several occasions and would talk to them occasionaly, although he "knew" they weren't there.....we didn't know it a the time, as we thought it was new meds they put him on, he was hospitalized coded and passed away a few weeks later. I think you just need to acknowledge what she is saying and remember children are the most innocent of souls, let her know everyone willl be OK and that you will love her forever and someday you'll once again be partners in crime. :heartbeat My prayers for you and you friend to find peace...:redbeathe

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Hi, the Deathbed Visions thread on this forum also amazed me. I found it when my dad was dying of pancreatic cancer and had a deathbed vision in front of me TWICE the day before he died. One seemed like a good one but one was very horrible. There are many people who, if they haven't been near a dying person, have never heard of this and there are no films that I can find on the topic. Most publicity has been given to Near Death Experiences, which are much different than this. The experience of losing a loved one is the most unbearable of all things in life.

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A couple of weeks before my Mom died she told my Dad that she had seen her Dad and his parents. Three days before she died(that was the last day she was awake) she told me she was going to die and was going to h ell. I told her no, she wasn't going there.

Makes me get sad just thinking about it.

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A couple of weeks before my Mom died she told my Dad that she had seen her Dad and his parents. Three days before she died(that was the last day she was awake) she told me she was going to die and was going to h ell. I told her no, she wasn't going there.

Makes me get sad just thinking about it.

Oh my, I wonder what happened for your mother to think that?

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Ive always heard of people seeing lights, God/Jesus, clouds, felt at piece, etc Ive never heard of anyone having a near death experience and seeing dark, feel not at peace, except when I was in Target one time and this guy claimed he went to hell in his near death experience

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