Stages of Dying
Recognizable Stages of Dying
The following paranormal phenomena statements are stages of dying extracts from the first spontaneous paranormal survey conducted by Psychic Revolution. These accounts have not been edited but any information that may identify the original contributor has been removed.
258. STAGES OF DYING, NEAR DEATH
My grandfather was sick for a long time. One night I had a dream that I was at his house, sitting on the steps leading downstairs, and he was telling me that he was dead. I told him, No, you arn’t dead, you are right here. He said, yes, I’m dead, I just died, and I wanted to tell you that it’s okay.
The dream ended with me waking up in bed, and staring at my ceiling for a few minutes. Then, at 4.30am, the house phone rang. I knew what was going to happen…I listened as my father picked up the phone, and gave it to my mom, and said it was the hospital, and I listened as she started to cry, and I ran out of bed and into the hallway, and I told my father that very moment what I dreamt, and he just looked at me and said, yep, he probably wanted to tell you in person.
This comforts me in a way, because I know that theres something after we die, but then again, it freaks me out because I don’t fully understand why I had this dream and my sister and mother and father didn’t.
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Stages of Dying
291. STAGES OF DYING, NEAR DEATH
A friend of mine … died in my arms when I was 15. I always felt he was with me. Two years later, my moms friend came to visit (she is a holistic healer) she stayed in my room.
She closed the door and in the middle of the night someone came into the room and asked where I was he had light around him he said over and over this is … where is “…”?
She said I was downstairs asleep on the couch. And he left. Her door was still open when I woke up. (not really happend to me I guess, but still)
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360. STAGES OF DYING, NEAR DEATH
I had a seeming brief “visitation” by my father at a moment which appears to have corresponded with his death (confirmed with family member who was present at his unexpected demise), some 35 miles distant.
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386. STAGES OF DYING, NEAR DEATH
My father was dying. I was using essential oils to annoint him. (It was miraculous to me that he had given me permission.) As I annointed his forehead, he sat up, wide-eyed, and said “I see … right behind you, helping.” My Uncle …, Dad’s brother, was a priest who had died years earlier. I had felt a presence, but didn’t know who it was. A month later, my Uncle appeared to me in a “dream”. He said “Forgive me. I didn’t know. Let me know if I can ever be of any help to you.” I was in awe of that.
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710. STAGES OF DYING, NEAR DEATH
A dear friend committed suicide that night and appeared in the middle of the night at my (and my husbands) bed at, what I now expect, the moment of his death. I woke (kind of) up and so did my husband, and I saw him standing next to my bed without saying anything. Since he lived in the same big house as we did his appearance was not impossible (though he never came in out bedroom before), and in my half sleep I didn’t think much of it. He didn’t glow, he just stood there and went after a few seconds. It all had a dream like quality.
The following morning we heard what happened, and later I realised that it was absolutely impossible that he could have come while alive, without making noise, since the hallway was totlly dark and full of wood and paint for remodeling; one had to jump to manage it, even by daylight. I never talked about it with my husband, but I am sure he experienced it too.
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654. STAGES OF DYING, NEAR DEATH
NOTE: THIS HAPPENED TO MY FATHER THE DAY PRIOR TO HIS PASSING OVER: the morning of the evening my father died he told of a strange dream/experience that he had the night before (saturday) (although he said it was not a dream it was real & actually happened to him).
my mums father (who has passed over some years prior) had sat on my dads bed discussing life after death & reincarnation, & not to be afraid to die. of course at that time dad was not aware his number was up. he had been telling all & sundry who visited their home that sunday morning, it was distressing enough that my sister in law left early in tears & could not understand why dad was being so morbid (thats how she saw it). anyway dad had a big heart attack that evening, & he was not a religious man yet was saying hail mary whilst gasping for his last breath. he was in the arms of my older brother who was trying to resuscitate him.
then dad smiled & said mother (he was always very close to our grandma & we believe she came to take him to the other side). I dont have any doubts about this & there were several witnesses of this final act.
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I have two stories:
1. My stepmother aged 90 just died a few days ago, six days since her 94 year old husband died.
She passed away gently during a nap. I suspect that each was waiting for the other to go.
When her husband died, she did not seem aware of it, as she was deep in dementia. However, there must have been some kind of understanding on her part that he had gone and that she could now go too.
Her carer reported hearing her muttering something during a nap and listened closely to try and understand what it was. She was saying “Come Jesus, Come Jesus” almost like a kind of mantra. Now my stepmother was a Christian but she was not overtly religious and this does not sound like the sort of thing she would have done normally, especially as she was no making very much sense during the last few years of her life.
To me, it hints at the possibility that she could actually ‘see’ Jesus in her mind’s eye and was welcoming Him and asking him to take her.
2. I related this story to an 87 year old friend of mine who told me that when her husband had passed away 22 years earlier, in the week before he died she had been sitting talking to him as he dozed off.
She shook him to make him wake up which he did complaining: “Why did you wake me up, I was just going towards this bright light and now you’ve made me come back when I didn’t want to come back”.
He died a few days later.
He was not a man who had the sort of belief in the afterlife which we who read your website have. He had never spoken about this sort of thing before, and nor did he elaborate about it afterwards.
To me it is further confirmation of most of what I have read about the afterlife.
Thanks for sharing these two stories.
As I was reading them and thinking about death my thoughts went to pre birth. Do we make a contract with others about our time on earth?
I remember a psychic telling me that I had a choice of two sets of parents and that rang true for me and it has always stuck with me. In fact, I tell my daughters the same thing especially when they are in teenage mode and railing against their parents!
Anyway, sorry about that deviation. Back to your stories.
If we each have a life purpose, do we also subconsciously know the life purpose of our life partner? Perhaps we do, and this becomes more evident in the case of elderly couples. Is it a case of, being so close to the finish line, that one senior person holds out for their partner to complete and then they both slip away.
The religious reference is consistent with what my survey shows – people with a Christian background tend to mention angels, the Virgin Mary etc. This may be a case of drawing on the reference points we have already established in our mind – would Christians feel the same affinity if they were approached by Buddha rather than a Christian icon? Probably not. This is just me thinking out loud here!
Re your second story, there is some research to suggest that we may actually get, at a subconscious level, some sort of itinerary that helps us to be at certain points of preparedness before we actually die. Of course, this may or may not be true. I wonder if the man in the second story altered his behaviour in the intervening days between his dry run and the real thing? It would be interesting to know.
Perhaps this discussion will prompt other readers to recall any changes of behaviour by a loved one in the lead up to their death?
Upon reflection, have you ever noticed anyone unconsciously executing their death plan?