Death bed visions

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Hello everybody. I can not think of a better place to ask this questions other than a forum full of what I believe to be Gods angels in human form.

In your experience taking care of the injured and specificaly the dying, what are your thoughts and experiences regarding those ready to pass being able to see something just prior?

THere are so many accounts but from people and professions that dont fit the bill in terms of those qualified to answer this. In your opinion is there more after this? Aside of any religious beliefs do you on a personal level feel there is something else beyond?

Thank you in advance.

Eric

Specializes in Critical Care.
:) My actions must confuse people then. A big, friendly guy full of compassion and love for his patients. Yet an atheist. Heh. Testify!!!!!!!!!

RAmen, brother! That makes two of us.

Specializes in PCU, Home Health.
:) My actions must confuse people then. A big, friendly guy full of compassion and love for his patients. Yet an atheist. Heh. Testify!!!!!!!!!

I am sure you are a big friendly guy full of compassion and love. I was merely trying to explain why I thought one of the previous poster's classmates was so intent on "Saving the patient's soul".

I was in no way implying that nurses of other faith are mean and nasty or that atheists were not loving. Just like I am sure that you were not implying 'wow, how did this fundamental close minded bible thumper' pass boards?

Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.

i second that motion!!

we christians don't think we're anything special--but that our boss is! not our call to judge anyone's heart but our own. keep right on being a lovable guy....just keep an open heart and mind.

yup, you can learn your lessons now, or learn them later.

but, if you choose to turn your back on all lessons life presents, you may find yourself unable to learn at all. :heartbeat

yes. i agree, i agree, i agree! i knew this.. but for some reason this quote moved me :loveya:

I have not personally experienced any patients with this, nor have I had a NDE... However, I do know that my grandfather was calling out to his wife and others the day before his death. He appeared to die very peacefully.

People will choose to believe or not believe, and their feelings regarding their beliefs may very well change with time.

I do not think that just because something isnt "scientifically proven" that it does not exist. I think that there are just soooo many things that we as human beings just dont have the capacity to understand yet.. maybe where we go when we die, if anywhere, is just one of those things.

IMO, the most important thing is that whatever these people saw (angels, relatives, hallucinations due to epinepherine) helped them through their experience.

Of course I have no idea what will happen to me when i go, but I choose to believe that there IS somethine after death and I hope that my loved ones will come for me and that I will go to a place where I feel comfort and love and peacefullness. I may be completely wrong, but I dont care, because it makes me feel good :nuke:

My dad had been in the ICU on the vent. When they took him off one the first question was if his brother was dead I told him no. They seen each other about a month before dad went into the hospital. Dad was taken up to long term care for rehab. He was put into a room with a Pt who was dying. They move my dad to the next room because of my mother's Alzhimers. The day they move him we went to see him. Mom and I went to get something to eat and dad a shake he love them. We got back and found he had pass on. That was the Friday before fathers day. Dads brother Ross was to sick to come and pay his respects, he had been put in a nursing home. Mom and I went to see him late in Sept. We talk about my dad and other stuff that day. 2 days latter he died. I offten wonder if dad saw what was to come. My dad was as sharp as a tack and I thought is was the drugs talking but now I still wonder.

My grandfather passed from Prostate Cancer in 2004.

I lived out of town at the time so I made sure to go and see him almost every week, well this one particular week I did not go to see him, and my aunt called me on a wed and told me to hurry up to see him because he didnt look like he will be here for much longer. She stated earlier that day, my grandfather asked about all of his grandchildren and his children to see if we made it to town yet, she said she didnt think nothing of it but she told him that we were on our way. Around 6pm that evening, he just sat in his room and stopped talking so that was around the time everyone started trickling in from out of town. Well I left work and I picked up my cousin who lived close to me and we got to my grandmothers house around 1:30am. When I went into my Grandfathers room, he was sitting up in his bed but he kept looking around the room like he was watching someone, I grabbed his hand and thanked him for raising me and my brothers and I let him know that i will miss him and he just kept grabbing my hand but i asked my aunt who was he looking at, she stated that he probably was looking at his sister, who passed back in 1986 from Cancer but i kept talking to him and he kept following something that noone could see. His eyes were glassy but he just squeezed my hand, that is how I knew that he heard me talking to him. this went on until around 5am, when he finally went to sleep. Around 8am that morning I went into his room to check on him and he was woke, just watching something in his room and then i went to make breakfast. My sister in law came into the kitchen around 9am and told me to hurry up in my grandfathers room because she thought he was about to go, when i got to his room, he was breathing very slowly and kept his eyes open looking at something in the corner of the room, and then a few minutes later he took his last breath and all of his children/grandchildren was in the room with him.

Sorry if this is so long*****

but last year one of my grandfathers aunts was going through cancer and my grandmother was home nursing her, my grandmother told me everytime she got to her house, she heard my aunt talking to someone and when she asked who she was talking to she said she was talking to her nephew, my grandfather and that he always comes to visit her when she is lonely, my grandmother also said that my aunt talked to everyone who was dead and that she had 30 minutes conversations with the dead family members but also she would answer them back like they were asking her questions, and my grandmother told me when my great aunt passed, she sat up in her bed, which she never does and took a deep breath and passed away, my grandmother is 70 and she said she never been creeped out like that in her life.

I don't believe there is anything beyond. I've been around a lot of dying people and the visions can be explained by the dying brain shutting down. I've never seen a case where the dying person was only calling out to only people who were deceased. They were calling out to people who were living (but not present) as well.

Specializes in LTC, wound care.

Just bumping a great thread... thanks to the OP for starting this...

Jane

Specializes in Hospice.

GoLytely,

I'm sorry to disagree, but you are out of touch, BIGTIME. I have been a hospice nurse for 15+ years and no matter what you think, do not EVER underestimate what a patient is going through at the time they are going to pass onto the other side. If you are a good nurse you will hold your disbelief to yourself, and keep your mind open. You might find a whole differnent side of life, and death if you do. I will hope for your sake you do. Good luck. And may a very special patient touch you in a way you will not be able to justify in your head. AMEN:redpinkhe

Specializes in ER, CCU/ICU, Trauma, Hospice.

Thank you Heavens Nurse! As a fellow hospice nurse, I could visualize everything described by Winterfresh. We see it almost daily in our line of work and it becomes the "norm" for us to see it. I truely believe that often as hospice nurses we become somewhat of a "bridge" for our patients who are getting ready to enter the next phase of their life. I can't help but think how wonderful it is that even in death our loved ones (past and/or present) are with us and help guide us in our journey.

I just had a patient who asked me why everytime she opened her eyes all the people went away? I could only think to tell her that they were there to show her the way and it was OK to go with them. She closed her eyes again and died a few hours later with her children there at her bedside. They said she was talking to their father who had passed away about a year earlier right before she took her last breath. They said that even in her death they were very comforted by the fact that they knew that Mom was with Dad and that they would see them again....

Specializes in ER, ICU,.

Had a pancreatic cancer pt once, young guy (40). He was end stage. Evidently he was a BIG racist and antichrist!! With anti (whatever) tattoo's all over his body. Anyway...he would NOT go to sleep. He was in so much pain, and so exhausted, but refused to go to sleep. When his brother asked why he wouldn't sleep. He pointed to the chair and said "the devil was sitting there waiting on me". He requested a priest, Not sure if priest made it before he passed though. I hope so! Another pt (short story) unresponsive, CBG was 14 (yes 14!!) D50 pushed, pt slowly wakes. She said she was 'swimming with the whales" all she could hear was me yelling at her to wake up! She was nice, but mad. She was having a good time swimming. She then told me she can't swim!! :saint:

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