Dying
Dying
I have made a distinction between near death experiences and dying because the process and experiences are different.
A near death experience is as it sounds – the person does not actually die, but comes close to dying, and is revived or recovers for example. But dying means just as it sounds, the person is dying – and dies. So they see heaven shortly before they get there and are able to give some indication of what they see or what it is like.
All the observations related to this category are thus those given by people who died shortly after giving some intimation of what they experienced.
There is a characteristic pattern that seems to emerge for those who die. This pattern is unrelated and unaffected by religious beliefs, nationality, language, age, sex or anything else you can think of that is a divider and not a uniter. It also is unrelated to one’s own self assessment of one’s moral standing. You may believe yourself to be a fine upstanding citizen, it makes not a jot of difference – you get treated exactly the same as those you might have condemned for their immoral life - morals are a man made thing – they have no place in the spiritual world.
Unlike the near death experience there appear to be no tunnels and no past life reviews, which rather indicates that the two are very different. This does not mean that there are no tunnels on death, simply that dying as a process, if left to take its natural course, produces no tunnels.
The visit of the spirits
Shortly before the person dies they receive a visit from one or more spirit helpers. Generally speaking these either appear to be the spirits of relatives or people who have died [in other words their appearance is that of someone known or related to the person] or are recognisable caricatures of religious figures.
I have chosen the words carefully here because it is very clear that the images are manufactured – as if the composer has constructed the image that will be the most familiar to us. Hence a grandpa or grandma will not look as they did on death, they will have the look of the time they were the most loved by the person and be ‘wearing’ familiar comforting clothes. Some people have ‘seen’ the image of a lover killed in a road accident and the image with which they were presented always looks like the person at their most lovable - certainly not at the point of their death.
At the Hour of death – Dr Karlis Osis and Dr Erlendur Haraldsson
In our data of terminal patients 83% of the human figures were relatives and nearly all of those – 90% - whose relationship to the patient was identified were close ones – mother father, spouse, siblings, offspring.
At the Hour of death – Dr Karlis Osis and Dr Erlendur Haraldsson
In a very soft voice and with a smile on her face, she had an endearing conversation about how much she loved him [her husband] how much she missed him, and how she knew she would join him. She said, ‘It won’t be long now before I’ll be with you’. Reaching out as if she felt his hand ‘You look well and well-cared for’.
Note here that I am not saying it isn’t the spirit of the person, just that the image is a manufactured one and as such we don’t really know who it is. It may be them it may not be, it probably depends a lot on where their spirit has gone next.
Where a religious figure is seen, the beings have an appearance which mimics in some way a person’s beliefs of how the religious figure should look. Thus if a person thinks Jesus had long hair and a white robe and a beard this is what they see. It is clear from the observations that the appearances are constructed, as ‘Jesus’ has been seen without a beard, with a beard, with short hair, with long hair, with robes, without robes and so on. Blue eyes, brown eyes, dark hair, fair hair. It is extremely rare – I have come across no observations, - for the spirit to identify itself, thus the spirit helper could be any number of spirits, but the composer is providing the person with the image that is the most comforting and presumably the deeply religious with strong belief systems find the most comfort in a view of their religious leader – Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Shiva etc.
In studies done by Osis and Haraldsson the visions were overwhelmingly dominated - 4 to 1 - by these two types of being. Where the vision was of a deceased human being, the vast majority were deceased close relatives. Otherwise they might be friends or former lovers. Even not very religious people occasionally see religious figures - including atheists – so who you see if not entirely dependent on your belief system.
It needs to be remembered here that we are dealing – allegorically speaking – with a software world – in effect there may every reason to believe that the spirit helper exists, but it won’t have a physical appearance because it is – as are all spirits – disembodied – having no body. This is a virtual world. Thus the spirit helper may or may not be who the person thinks – it actually doesn’t matter at that stage, because the objective is to comfort and help.
The purpose
The purpose of the visit is that they have come to act as guides to the person’s spirit in transition to their ‘after-life’. In the surveys of Osis and Haraldsson, the nearer the person was to death, the more likely it was that their role of guide and psychopomp was made very clear in the vision. They held out their hand or even stated via mind transfer that that was their role.
At the Hour of death – Dr Karlis Osis and Dr Erlendur Haraldsson
The mother saw that her child seemed to be sinking and called us nurses. She said that the child had just told her she had seen an angel who had taken her by the hand – and she was gone – died immediately. That just astounded us because there was no sign of imminent death. She was so calm, serene – and yet so close to death!
One doctor in the Osis/Haraldsson survey stated that he thought the very fact the apparitions made it clear what they had come for tended to hasten death. In their American survey 87% of those who were given a vision of a very obvious ‘take-away’ guide died within 60 minutes!
We have to weigh this opinion, however, against the fact that encounters with these messengers from another world seem to be so calming and uplifting that in general, the person seems quite happy to go. Thus it may ‘hasten death’, but only because death seems after the visit to hold no fears.
Perhaps even more surprisingly, the same acceptance and contentment can still be present when the person is not expecting to die. So the spirits turn up even to people who are not expecting them, leading to the conclusion that they probably are true spirits and not wholly manufactured by the composer.
There may be quite a subtle dividing line here, however. If apparitions appear to a person quite some time before the person dies, they may well be entirely a construction of the composer – there solely to give comfort – and not be spirits at all. Apparitions that do not appear to interact with the person but simply show themselves as in a film, are probably simply constructed comforting images.
In effect the purpose of the visit is as much to reassure and comfort as much as guide. Where a person does not want to go, the reason appears to be that a religious figure has turned up whom the person fears. In essence whether you have a peaceful death may [if you have a belief system of this sort] depend on the frightening nature of your religion and what you have been taught to expect.
Death can be a serene experience
Whether the person was racked with pain or turmoil or fear before the visit, they tend to be filled with peace, serenity even elation shortly before death. Occasionally it cannot be known whether the person had a visit or not, as they were not capable of communicating, but the sudden change in their mien – the relaxing of face muscles, the change of expression to one of peace, indicated that this sense of peace was pretty well universal.
At the Hour of death – Dr Karlis Osis and Dr Erlendur Haraldsson
A female patient in her forties – who was suffering from cancer and during the last preceding days had been depressed and drowsy, though always clear – suddenly looked very happy. A joyful expression remained on her face until she died five minutes later.
If any form of negative emotion was felt it was usually because of the religious element again – their religion had convinced them of the existence of hell or to fear the spirit come to collect them. In effect negativity is a religious effect.
Drugs can also produce a less than serene ending. There is one observation where a man peacefully dying is given Naloxone and dies in terror.
Environmental visions
Occasionally the person is led or transported to a beautiful place – a garden, lovely landscape, gentle pastures, serene valleys [the valleys of shadowless death – where there are no shadows]. This tended to heighten the sense of peace and serenity and in people with some remnants of fear remaining tended to help to alleviate that fear.
An after thought
If we ever get back to a situation where living shamans roam the spiritual world looking around to help the lost spirit without a guide needing to find their way in the spiritual world, then not only may the dying see angels, intelligences, and disembodied souls they may see the naked glowing honey coloured body of a living shaman too, his or her long hair flowing along in the non existent breeze.
References
All the paintings on this page are by Vladimir Kush.
Observations
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- 'Brian is in trouble, Brian is dying.'
- A case of anaphylaxis to peppermint, statins, aspirin and gastroesophageal reflux drugs
- A collective hallucination - Witnessing the apparition [out of body state] of the lady who was dying
- A death in Egypt and a visit to the children in England
- A meeting with her dead mother and 'Jesus' helps resolve a dying woman's anger
- A narrative of the Experience of Horace Abraham Ackley MD late of Cleveland Ohio, since his entrance into spirit life
- A premonition of the death of a gerbil
- A prophetic vision of his own death
- A serene death
- A shared experience of a loved one's death
- A shared experience shows how very close these two felt to each other
- A sister of Saint Vincent-de-Paul, Lisbon - Sister Marie Souchon prophecies her own death
- A smile of recognition spread slowly over his face, as if he was greeting someone
- A strange light came out of the clock dial, and the voice of my brother ‘For me, it is finished! For me, it's over!’
- A violent blow was struck on the head of the bed and the curtains were set in motion by an inexplicable puff of air
- About three days before she died, she started talking in Macedonski
- Acute Nutmeg poisoning hallucinations
- Adam's dying Nan
- Adamina and Alfredo
- After her mother died, the old granddaughter clock on the wall struck twice
- Agatha sees Jane, her dead daughter again
- Agent Orange poisoning
- Alexander Pope - Oh Death where is thy sting?
- Although my nan had died, it will always comfort me, seeing her smiley face being taken up to a safer place
- And there was Uncle Albert standing, looking quite young, probably middle aged
- And they met him to help him on his journey
- Anderson, Hans Christian – The white poodle, called Love, and the death of Olaf Linden
- Anna L Barbauld - From Tomorrow
- Apart from paracetamol, he had refused to take anything
- Appearance of sick friend
- Arthur James Hill of Roadwater Farm, Washford hears celestial music as he lay dying
- As a cool breeze came through the window, Dad said, 'Yes, Mum, I understand’, but did not open his eyes at all.
- As my eyes opened, there was the face, in white, of my brother back in London
- Awakened by the howl of a wolf when her uncle died
- Barbara Cane's mother
- Baroness de Boisleve sees her dying son Honore
- Bassui Tokushō - from 101 Zen stones
- Bede the Venerable, Ecclesiastical History of England - 640, Faremoutiers-en-Brie, France
- Benjamin, Walter - Illuminations - Understanding destiny on point of death
- Berget, Alphonse – The death of his grandmother’s close friend ‘I just heard her singing, like only a dead woman can sing’
- Bert, you were right all along, I saw Mum last night
- Bertha Hurley sees the dying Mrs Ewans
- Bessie Heap
- Billy in bed six talks with his dead mother
- Billy with leukemia sees his dead brother Bruce
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - The death of Lieutenant McClure
- Blake, William - His death
- Blithe spirit - What dying feels like, a personal story of my meeting with the 'Widow Maker'
- Bob’s head
- Boehme, Jacob – Hears celestial music on his death
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Mamma, little brother keeps on calling Ray
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 01 Introduction and 1st case
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 03 Mr Hudson Tuttle of Hartford
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 04 The death of Alfred Smedley’s wife
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 05 The death of Mr. Rud. C. Gittermann’s mother
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 06 Mr. G. Hall Tench dying in 1902 of a carcinoma
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 07 The death of Dr. E. H. Pratt’s sister Hattie
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 08 The dying child who saw her mother
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 09 The death of Mrs. Le Normand des Varennes’ husband
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 10 The miraculous healing and prophesied death of Jean Vitalis
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 11 The death of little Tommy Brown
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 12
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- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 45 The death of Dr. Albert Braudâo
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 47 The death of Bishop Gott
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 48 Telekinetic phenomenon on a big pendulum clock
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 51 The death of Captain Dufauret
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 52 Suddenly, my mother heard a heavenly music
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 55 Joseph Clark’s sister hears celestial music as she is dying
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 57 A young woman belonging to the Salvation Army dies as mysterious and very soft music resounds in her room
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 59 Mrs L C Gilmour, of Borckville Canada hears celestial music from a dying priest
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 60 The emotion evoked in the participants by this mysterious and divine song was such that their attention was diverted for a few moments from the solemn scene
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 61 Mr. F. H. Rooke De Guildford and his sister hear celestial music on their mother’s death
- Brittany - The fée who came as a child was dying
- C Thiery and Madame Marie Jacquet
- Camille Flammarion - L'Inconnu (The Unknown) – The nurse who saw the dead husband of Mrs B de L of Lacapelle by the bed of her dying daughter
- Cash, Johnny – Relates the story of his dying brother Jack
- Castles in the air
- Célestine Galli-Marié - The death of Bizet
- Charles Dyer
- Charlie comes
- Christina sees her dad in a yellow shirt and fedora
- Chronicle of the Rebirth of Katsugorō – 05 The account as related by Matsudaira Kwanzan Sama
- Clocks that coincide with death cases
- Close to death from a haemorrhaged brain tumour
- Cohen, Leonard - Going home
- Cohen, Leonard - Leaving the table
- Cohen, Leonard - Travelling light
- Cohen, Leonard - You want it darker
- Coltrane, John – 1967 - Stellar regions
- Come to my garden
- Commander F M Moureau - The kiss from his dying son
- Cornwall - A seaman's testimony from Mousehole
- Count Auguste de Malachowski's brother sees his dying father
- Dad and the phoenix
- Daniélou, Alain – The Way to the Labyrinth – Max d'Ollone and his wife
- Danny Penman's cat, Buffy, has an NDE
- David and Harry
- David-Neel, Alexandra - Bardo Thodal - Prayer for death or annihilation
- David-Neel, Alexandra – The prophecy of the old and dying farmer
- Death of Louis Agassiz
- Diana Merchant sees the most wonderful starburst
- Doctor and his dying patient share a vision of her father and childhood pet dog
- Don't ever be afraid of dying; I have seen a beautiful Light
- Doris
- Doris died, at half-past two, exactly the time my pain went
- Dr J C Barker - The brain damaged girl who predicted her own death
- Dr J C Barker - The child who predicted her own death
- Dr J C Barker - The heart attack victim who predicted his own death
- Dr J C Barker - The woman who prophesied her own death
- Dr. M. Isnard and his two sisters witness their dying mother’s double
- Dr. Paul Edwards describes the death of the lady with consumption
- Dr. Vincent Gubernari is told of his imminent death
- Dreaming of sick father
- Dudley Moore - I can hear the music all around me.
- Dumas, Alexandre - from Memoirs I
- Dumas, Alexandre – from Memoirs – Recounts the experiences of Mr. Villenave
- Dying - when the spirit can flit back and forth for a while before finally departing
- Dying and TB
- Dying boy tells nurse she should hug his mother for him when she saw her in three months
- Dying child
- Dying lady sees members of her deceased family beckoning her
- Dying man has vivid images of people coming up to his bed
- Dying man meets mistreated boys
- Dying of cancer
- Eleanor was so calm and peaceful, completely unafraid
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 01 The death of Mr Phibbs‘s dog Fox
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 02 The death of Mrs. R. Lacassagne’s dog Lione
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 04 Fido
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 05 Dr. Emile Magnin’s dog Creole
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 06 Misses Lubow and Wera Krijanowski’s dog Bonika
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 07 The death of the dog Judy
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 08 Mr. G. Graeser, from Lausanne tells how his parents had his beloved dog shot
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 11 The angora cat and its doppelganger
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 12 The loved hunting dog who sensed his master’s death
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 14 Dr Marie de Thyle, of Saint-Julien, Switzerland and her cat see a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 17 Mrs. H.-L. B and her dog see the ghost of the boy who had died from TB
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 25 A ghostly cat signals the coming death of a family member
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 26 Dr. Gustave Geley from De l'Inconscient au Conscient The death howl of a dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 27 Presentiment of death manifested by the dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 The dog died at 8:30 in the evening. Its old master followed it into the afterlife at 10:00 a. m
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 Three cases of the presentiment of death by dogs
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 43 The death of a spider results in its spirit being seen, flying away, by a medium
- Ethna’s friend
- Eva Markvoort
- Eva Markvoort - 65 Red roses
- Eva Markvoort - her last blog
- Everything disappeared and was replaced by a bright white consuming light, in which was total peace, no pain, no thought, no time
- Extract Phantasms of the Living - Volume ii - The hopping message
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The Higher spirit
- Father N, parish priest of O--, in Moravia sees his dead niece
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Matteo Corsini
- Forewarning of mother's death
- Four witnesses who were awake saw the bell was in motion, but did not ring it themselves
- Fourteen year old girl sees us from down a well
- Frankie comes back to help his dying mother Audrey
- Fred and Annie
- Fred Williams the Swansea pensioner
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé - Ensueño
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe - Guide Me Home
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe - How Can I Go On
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe - The Fallen Priest
- From life to death, beyond and back - Dr Thomas Fleischmann - TEDxTUHHSalon
- Gaetan Re David - prophecies his own death
- Gardner, Jeanne - Grandma knew she was leaving us, and she was prepared to go
- George Barth - Letter to 'Spiritual Magazine' January 1863 – The Death of his son
- Get the suitcase out from under his bed
- Goethe - The death of Goethe and celestial music
- Greta had told her that she couldn't die because 'it wasn't the right time'
- Grisi, Giulia – The death of the opera singer Giulia Grisi
- Guthrie, Woody - No fear
- H.I.M.'s sister - realized herself as being in the spirit and very luminous, like an electric light
- Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder and Risk of Suicide
- Hamilton, Dr Allan - Harry and his heart
- Hamilton, Dr Allan - The Aura of Death
- Hamilton, Dr Allen - Sarah's out of body experience when clinically dead
- Hang on, I will be with you in a minute
- Hara Willow - All is well and all shall be well
- Harold had been killed when his plane was brought down by enemy fire
- Hawaian Baby Woodrose - Slip into Schizophrenia and a Sea Change
- Hazel Cornwell - His face was beautiful, all his lines had gone
- Hazel Cornwell senses her Nan as a ball of energy
- He died with a beatific smile
- He had "seen the face of God"
- He had just closed his eyes and died
- He heard a child's footsteps pass by and knew the boy had died
- He kept looking at the doorway at the foot of his bed and talking as if to someone there
- He picked up my nephew's bike and said, 'That's it, I'm off'
- He said 'It's all right, I'm better now’ before he disappeared through the wall
- He smiled broadly, as if at something or someone and died suddenly in my arms
- He started to see wires hanging from the ceiling and insects on the bed
- He stood at the end of my bed, just smiling at me
- He suddenly began to cry uncontrollably and was consumed with grief
- He suddenly pointed to the clock. It struck 4 p.m. and then my great-uncle died
- He told her that he had seen 'our Mabel and our Doris'
- He was distraught because he had seen his mother who had been dead for many years
- Helene Schoulgine of Grodno, Russia and the three loud raps
- Her brother had been killed instantly by a drunk driver
- Her dead husband came to see her and told her he would come back at 4 a.m.
- Her dying mum was singing with the angels
- Her eyes were wide open and she continued staring at the same place
- Her grandmother dreamed of the death of her mother
- Her husband looked and saw nothing, but she persisted - there's a tall young man, with a terrible wound in his chest
- Her husband's communication the night after he had died
- Her old nanny visits her to tell her she is dying, but 'all was well'
- Herr Schmidt and his dying wife Lotta Schmidt, who visits Fritz in Rio de Janeiro
- Heywood, Rosalind - The Infinite Hive - Oh, the Light! ... The Light!
- His voice said, 'Look up, Mary.' I did, and saw his head and shoulders above a white cloud
- Honorary Canon, Pastor of Douze, Dordogne - felt a sudden push on his shoulder, a push which made him bend forward sharply, even though no one was there
- Hortense Code and Cecile Legendre of Saint-Joseph in Martinique
- I am coming
- I am going, he said
- I awoke and became aware of 'seeing' my mother very clearly, standing in a spotlight wearing her usual baggy everyday clothes
- I cannot fully articulate the feeling I had of a 'presence' in the room
- I cannot possibly describe the feelings of love and great peace I experienced
- I distinctly felt her kiss the top of my head
- I dreamed that I heard the phone ring, and I answered it and his voice said, 'Hi'
- I felt an electric shock and saw a cord snapping which woke me up
- I felt incredibly happy, at peace and joyful
- I felt this warm feeling that death was all right and nothing to be scared of
- I have never left a room without opening the window to allow the spirit to go free
- I have no doubt that she reached out to me at that moment
- I heard him calling me saying "Kate, Kate" as he passed over
- I hope I'm not going to have heart trouble like Dad
- I just saw my mother standing in the doorway as clearly as I can see you
- I knew that my late mother-in-law was standing beside the bed
- I saw a fast-moving 'Will 'o the Wisp' appear to leave her body
- I saw beautiful circles of light around the room and felt something so peaceful that it is hard to forget
- I saw the patient himself, who had just died, looking at his own corpse with an expression of great astonishment
- I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying - Dr Christopher Kerr - TEDxBuffalo
- I tried to kiss her, but my face passed through her face as if she wasn't really there
- I was in Stevenage, asleep in bed with my husband, when I was awoken by my friend coming into the bedroom
- I was laid on my bunk reading Playboy, when my grandfather appeared looking at me
- I was woken up very suddenly by something incredibly violent
- I'm coming across the river, Honey. Wait for me
- If I heard its soft but rapid tick I would say, 'Still with us then, Johnny boy?
- Ikkyu - from 101 Zen stones
- Incidents in My Life - D D Home - Edwin comes to say goodbye
- It shows how deep a mother’s bond goes, no matter how short the bonding time is
- It was as if I was holding Vera's hand, and I was losing my grip of her
- It's still kind of spooky though, isn't it?
- James Nugent, called Mountain Jim, visits Mrs Bishop in Switzerland to say good-bye
- James, Henry - Lives in the Napoleonic world
- Jan Manette - Believes to the soul, death does not exist. She had seen it with her own eyes
- Jean Vitalis - His dead father prophesies the time of his death
- Jim
- Jobs, Steve - His death
- John Ogle - Sees his dead friend
- Joseph of Cupertino – And his death, ‘Oh, what chants, what sounds of Paradise’
- Jung, C G - The symptoms of the onset of death
- Kate Dornan tells of the many dying patients who seem to be talking to someone no one else can see
- l lost sight of the light and music, I felt so bereft at being left behind
- Laubscher, B J F - A few days later Mrs K died of a stroke
- Laubscher, B J F - I lost my baby; and my sister and sister-in-law each lost a child
- Laubscher, B J F - Three knocks as the signal of having gone to the other side
- Laubscher, B J F – Gone, gone, gone to the other shore
- Laubscher, B J F – Try and listen with me, I am hearing the most beautiful music; it seems to be drawing me, but it is far far away
- Leifchild, Reverend John – The death of her son is anticipated by Leifchild’s aunt in an hallucination
- Leopold Stark of 34 Rue Hongroie, Budapest - And the violent gust of wind
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – The parson who had the OBE
- Lethbridge, T C - Ghost and Ghoul - The robin and the 'sending'
- Letting go - and the power of the Will to decide the time of death
- Li Qingzhao - Year after year, a little drunk
- Linnaeus, Carl - Hears the ghostly footsteps of his dead friend
- Liu Bolin - Disappearing into heaven
- Liver disease
- Liver disease
- Look at that lovely light, isn't it beautiful?
- Louis XVII of France hears celestial music as he dies
- MacLaine, Shirley - The death of her parents
- Madam Home - D D Home his life his mission - Testimony of Mrs Hennings
- Madam Home - D D Home his life his mission – The death of D D Home
- Madame Camille Selden - Heinrich Heine's death
- Madame d’Esperance - Letter to Light 1910 – The moving watch
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 13 The last visions of Georgio
- Madame P Gayraud and the cracking table
- Madame Sophie Chaproniere sees the double of her maid
- Madame Turban's dying sister goes to hear her fiance preach
- Man who had experienced the Horrors of the Somme, sees his dead comrades
- Maria and Keith's youngest son, David, died after crashing his motorbike
- Marian Griffiths - senses the death of her brother
- Marryat, Florence - The Spirit World – Edith, being in a state of clairvoyance, witnessed the process of separating the spirit from her sister’s body
- Marryat, Florence – The Spirit World – Mrs. Davis was sitting by his side on the day he died, she saw his wife's spirit standing at the foot of the bed
- Mary Wilding
- Mechanical malfunction on a flamboyant scale
- Megatherium, the dog, sounds the alarm he is dying
- Michelle Mayer - The Diary of a Dying Mom
- Mike Smith
- Minnie and Ada
- Mircea Eliade - Shamanic bridges
- Mircea Eliade - The Muria and the horse
- Monsieur Adolphe Riesbeck's portrait falls off the wall
- Monsieur Alexandre Drouart dies in his sleep
- Monsieur Chevremont's premonition of the death of his father
- Monsieur Mariage and the furious blows which shook the shutters and window
- Mortimer, John and wife Penny
- Mother is calling me
- Mr A Villinger prophesies the death of his manager
- Mr Durocq - communicates with his dead friends
- Mr E Asinelli of Modena in Italy and the vision of his dead mother
- Mr Everard Calthorp - The Horse as Comrade and Friend - The death of the horse ‘Windermere’
- Mr W. R. M. Chambers, C.B.E., J.P witnesses the passing of Arthur Gumbley
- Mr Williams and Mrs Hooper
- Mr. David Gow, the editor of Light, was impressed by the observational capacity of all the eight witnesses, who said they had seen their mother’s soul leave her dying body
- Mr. W. T. Catlengh sees the double of his dying daughter
- Mrs Dorcas Norris of Dalkey Ireland predicts her own death
- Mrs. F. Downing of North Ipswich’s brother Fred - So many children, so much music
- Music coming from the bedroom of a Salvation Army Worker
- Music Therapy - Nicky O’Neill and Giorgos with Blindness and Osteopetrosis
- Music Therapy - Nigel Hartley and Mary, dying and living in a hospice
- Music Therapy - Nigel Hartley and Steve, dying Of AIDS
- Music Therapy – Judith Nockolds and Jim
- Music Therapy – Judith Nockolds and Olive
- My daughter said the room had always been packed with people
- My Last Days: Meet Zach Sobiech
- My mother said that he was calling for me as he died
- My poor father had died at half-past seven in the evening, at the hour at which he had appeared to me
- Naloxone - And the evil Spirit beings of the drug
- Nerve agents
- Nicolas Cordier - of stout blows and flying turnips
- Nigerian girl sees her distant dying father
- Norse - Fiórir Jƒkull’s poem
- Now if I’m not feeling too well and wake up, I always check whether anybody is at the bottom of my bed
- O'Donohue, John - For The Dying
- Ogston, Sir Alexander KCVO - Out of body to the asphodel fields
- Oliver Sacks - Bhagawandi P
- On our way home I felt this blue light come to me as if he were saying goodbye
- One step beyond
- Only 2 per cent of the ‘visitors' were religious figures, while 70 per cent were dead relatives or friends
- Orbison, Roy - 1985 Coming Home
- Orbison, Roy - 1985 Wild Hearts
- Organs and angels
- Osis and Haraldsson
- Osty, Dr Eugene - Supernormal faculties in Man – Presentiments of death and M. Dencausse, aged seventy-six
- Osty, Dr Eugene - Supernormal faculties in Man – Presentiments of death at the beginning of sickness
- Out of the blue, I felt a shiver run down my spine
- Parker, Shelley E - Senses the death of a little girl
- Patricia's story
- PB senses the death of his twin sister
- Peter Saul - Let's talk about dying
- Phantasms of the Living - Volume i - The death of Helen Alexander
- Phantasms of the Living - Volume ii - Mrs Taunton sees her dying uncle at a concert
- Plain people to greet him
- Plumptre, Reverend Edward - The Spirits In Prison – The law of continuity
- Po Chu-I - At home giving up home
- Po Chu-I - Peaceful Old Age
- Po Chu-I - The North Window: Bamboo and Rock
- Potter, Dennis - I see it as the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be
- Pretty soon you'll be swimming with the porpoises
- Princess de Montarcy - I was in bed reading, when I heard my name spoken in a dying voice. I saw the count, dead and stretched out on the floor with a small bottle in one hand and my photograph in the other
- Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research - Volume vi - A shared hallucination
- Professor Arthur Lovell - At 2 o'clock in the morning, my father died, two minutes later we began to hear on the outside of the window a wonderful song
- Professor Becker, professor of mathematics at Rostock, sees his double as a harbinger of his own death
- Professor Pirro Bessi sees a scene in a mirror
- Professor Randy Pausch - last lecture
- Psychotic Episode & Temporary Organ Failure - 5-MeO-DiPT
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Quakers - From Death Bed Visions - A Quaker death
- Qu’ran - Death and the Spirit helpers - Surah Al An’am
- Rabbi Weil of Strasbourg and the watch that stopped
- Ralph Shirley - The Mystery of the Human Double – A curious case of apparently suspended animation
- Reagan, Ronald – In his last dying moments he experiences terminal lucidity
- Rene Johany Delestre - It is ended
- Report on Spiritualism of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society, 1873
- Return of the cat
- Ric Elias - 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 04 First Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 20 Fourth Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 29 Seventh Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 32 Seventh Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 33 Seventh Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 34 Eighth Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 37 Eighth Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 38 & 39 Eighth Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 48 & 49 Tenth Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 50 Tenth Elegy
- Rimbaud, Arthur - La Vie de Rimbaud - His death
- Romanes, Dr George John - Sees the ghost of his dying sister
- Romanes, Dr George John - The death of Edith
- Rosalie and Emilie
- Ryan Santanna dies from Salvia
- Sai Baba - Howard Murphet – Mr. V. Radhakrishna, a factory owner and well-known citizen in Kuppam, is raised from the dead
- Sai Baba - Howard Murphet – Out of body to Dehra Dun in the Himalayas to help with the dying
- Saint Augustine - Confessions - The joint vision with his dying mother
- Saint Catharine of Genoa – Dying from the Heat of the Mystic
- Saint Chad - an invisible concert of music had been heard above his cell
- Saint Columba - The death of St Columba as described by his disciple and biographer, Adamnan
- Saint Juliana Falconieri – The miracle on her death
- Saint Servulus hears celestial music as he lay dying
- Saint-Saens - Requiem
- Sales, Francois de - Bells ringing on his death
- Samuel Rogers - Man's going home
- Savage, Dr Minot Judson - Psychics : facts and theories – 04 Their mother came and told them that their Aunt Melinda was dead, for she had just seen her standing in the doorway, in her nightdress.
- Savage, Dr Minot Judson - Psychics : facts and theories – 06 The spirit who visited her doctor after she died
- Savage, Dr Minot Judson - Psychics : facts and theories – 07 The death bed vision Edith has of the already dead Jennie
- Savage, Dr Minot Judson - Psychics : facts and theories – 16 A vision of his dying fiancée thousands of miles way
- Schelling, F W J - Clara or On Nature’s Connection to the Spirit World – The effects of hypnosis, near death and death compared
- Scott, Sir Walter - Poltergeists at Abbotsford
- Seeing her parents as she was dying
- Seeing Katie
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - A glimpse of Paradise
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - The death of Johann Schmidgall her grandfather
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - The last three visions of dying
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - The man who saw 'inexpressible things-things which I never believed; there is another world'
- Sees his dying mother on an omnibus and goes out of body to see her
- Shared death vision
- She died peacefully with a smile on her lips
- She found herself in the presence of pure Light and Peace
- She had a sudden overwhelming feeling that something was wrong with her father
- She inexplicably burst into tears in the middle of someone's wedding
- She said her dead sister Alice would come for her the next day at 2.30 p.m.
- She said she was going to die - all her dead relatives had come to visit her that afternoon and they were ready for her in heaven
- She saw her mother, appearing as a young woman, quite clearly at the foot of the bed
- She then closed her eyes, turned her head to face in front of her and said, 'O my darling, I love you.'
- Sheridan, Clare - The death of Elizabeth
- Singer sings her death
- Sir William Barrett - Native American Indians - Happy hunting grounds
- Sir William Barrett FRS - Proof of Supernormal Messages – Communications from beyond the grave
- Sissy and Newton
- Small boy who died in a car accident gets in touch with his cousin
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – She died of consumption and without sufferings
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – The Angels of Death and Renewed Life
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – The death of a friend who is reunited with his dead child
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – The death of an old soldier who was in the last stages of tuberculosis
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – The death of her friend Maggie
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – The Death of Mrs Brown
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – The death of the singer Mrs L
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – Then peace came to me and my soul found rest
- So she stopped knitting and looked up to see a large ball of smoke
- Socrates - Death and its Mystery - On death
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - Death of Socrates
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - Swans
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - The Dying Philosopher
- Something which is very hard to describe left up through his body and out of his head
- Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan – I saw a white cloud coming out of his body and stopping two or three inches away
- Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan – The account of a woman attending to a sick child with its mother
- Spirit foretells boy's death
- Spiritual Development and Death Attitude in Female Patients With Type II Diabetes
- St Andrews University - Insecticides and brain damage
- St Catherine of Sienna - Sees demons as she is dying
- St Honoratus of Arles – Advice to his students on his death bed
- Stabbed lama, the
- Stobart, Henry - A view from the Bolivian Andes – The Animu and soul loss
- Suddenly I turned right where I always turn left for my workplace, and started heading for London and the north
- Suddenly the corridor filled with the brightest white light
- Susan and Jane and Ellen and Edward too
- Talking to her dead husband
- Taylor Marshall
- TB patient
- Terminal lucidity in patients with chronic schizophrenia and dementia: a survey of the literature
- Tesla, Nikola – Empathetic communication with pigeons
- The 'little idiot' who saw her mother die in a dream
- The 96 year old man and the car journey
- The anthropologist Kenneth Kensinger, witnesses the abilities of the Cashinahua tribe in the Peruvian Amazon
- The apparition of Jim, the laughing collie dog, took place one hundred and six miles from the city where it was killed
- The atheist who met Jesus in an NDE
- The brother in India
- The clock had stopped, at ten minutes to eleven exactly
- The clock on the mantelpiece had stopped at 3.15, as had his own wristwatch, his bedside clock and all other clocks in the house
- The clock that stopped on a mother’s death - the dead woman was an ardent spiritualist
- The curious case of the twizzling hat
- The curtains had suddenly blown up and inwards as a draught entered
- The Dean of Wells cathedral
- The death bargain between Lillian Nichia and Anton Rubinstein, the great pianist and composer
- The Death of a baby suffering from Fallot's tetralogy
- The death of Anna Katharina Ehmer: a case study in terminal lucidity.
- The death of Escolan
- The death of Jeanne Dumière's mother causes the bed where Jeanne and her older sister are lying to be raised with violence
- The death of Katharine
- The death of Peter Emil Nielsen - The angels are singing! How beautiful it is
- The Death of Stanislas de Guaita
- The death of tenor James Moore
- The dog began howling like a wolf. It was spine chilling
- The dying children who are comforted by angels
- The Dying lady who wanted to go shopping
- The elderly lady visited by her mother and 13 siblings . . . all deceased
- The experiences of Nashuwa Renee Miller
- The ghost of the dying girl struck the witness on the shoulder when it passed by
- The jackdaw looked at my mum, squawked and then left
- The lady who came
- The light is usually described as bright and white and associated with strong feelings of love and compassion
- The little girl who sensed the death of her grandpa
- The man dying of cancer asks who the lady is
- The man in a coma opens his eyes, the colour of which was the most piercing luminescent blue she had ever seen
- The man who met his dead wife again as he was dying
- The Marquis of Precy made an effort to embrace The Marquis of Rambouillet , but his arms closed on nothing but air
- The night my great-aunt Odette passed away
- The old clock installed on the day of the foundation in the tavern's main hall, had stopped at the same time as the owner had died
- The parallel worlds the dying seem able to inhabit
- The patient reported seeing insects and he thought the nurses were going to poison him
- The podiatrist who felt his father tell him he had died
- The prayer circle when she felt that she was in the presence of Jesus
- The room was suddenly filled with the sound of on organ playing and voices singing a hymn
- The Saami - A Cultural Encyclopaedia - The Ovdasas
- The sad notes of a wind harp were heard three times by several people as Lily died
- The silent witness
- The St Thomas's doctor who felt his dying wife’s presence
- The story of David
- The story of the neuroscientist's dying father
- The suicide of the Duke of Abrantes
- The table raps out the death of Mr Chris Varis
- The three crows
- The TV screen went totally blank, the sound went totally and the alarm rang
- The unrequited love of Monsieur D and Mademoiselle B
- The vicar told me that it was the angels coming to get my mother
- Then I saw that her face appeared to be glowing with a gold light
- Then my father-in-law faded away
- There came into my vision a bright light and there I saw my grandmother looking at me through a mirror
- There is somebody who is desperately ill and wanting me
- There was real recognition and gratitude in his look
- There was something or someone he saw through that window that he knew meant his death
- There was the sick woman, her hands raised in rapt astonishment, the music sounding within the room
- There, bending over my son's cot, was my father-in-law who said, 'It's all right, I just want to say goodbye to the boy.'
- There’s my mother
- Thomas, Elizabeth and Phyllis come to visit
- Tommy Brown, a poor boy of 12 years old, sees his dead father ‘He's looking at me, and beckoning me to follow him’
- Traubel, Horace – In his dying moments is helped by the ghost of Walt Whitman
- Tweedale, Reverend Charles – The death of Mrs. Mary Burnett
- Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation – Dr Ian Stevenson – 03 The Case of Jasbir
- Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation – Dr Ian Stevenson – 04 The Case of Jasbir
- Two sisters at death
- Tyrrell, G N M - Psychical Research and Religion – An undiscovered book is found by a medium describing the process of death and dying
- US based man has a daytime sighting of his UK based dying mother
- Visions and moving objects on the death of General Henry Havelock-Allan
- Vitebsky, Piers - visit from a dying man
- Walter Savage Landor - Death stands above me
- Wave to your father girls, he's waving goodbye to us
- We both saw a luminous and vibrant vapour appeared above our poor father's head, in the shape of a globe
- Wendy Lewis’s account of her mother's twin sister's reaction to her death
- Wesley, John - Sermon 121 - On death
- Wesley, John - Sermon 139 - On love and dying
- When Alice looked at her alarm clock in the morning it had stopped at 2 a.m
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Gary Pennington 03
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Heather Whiteholme 06
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Heather Whiteholme 07
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Linda Irving [extract from full case history]
- Whitton, Dr Joel - The Bardo – a Summary of Case histories
- Whitton, Dr Joel - The social worker who experienced seven Bardos
- Who are you looking at Mother?
- Who was the man, kneeling by the bed side when we came in
- William S King - And his prophecies
- Wilson, Jeremiah M – The clock hangs on the wall of his room, constantly marking 2.10 a m
- Woman dying of breast cancer sees her grandfather was there to help her
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other lives, Past Selves - Alice
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Arlette the Opera singer with stage fright
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Burton - I'm trying to hold my dying body together, I am angry, it isn’t working
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Edith and the terrorist who blew himself up
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Eliza and the baby with the deformed heart
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Sherry and her past life as a Roman soldier
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other lives, Past Selves – The Death of a Peasant
- Wounded and dying
- Wynn Bainbridge describes the day that her cousin died
- Zohar - I 217b – Rabbi Isaac