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On Twitter, I
encountered a fascinating series of observations on death from an unnamed
hospice nurse. The Twitter account is from @Rachel, Spirited Sparrow. This particular
Twitter link has garnered more than 5.4 million views.
Death fascinates us.
The final moments fascinate us. Near-death experiences fascinate us. What the
afterlife is like fascinates us. On this blog, we have reviewed at least three books
that deal with these topics. One is Map Of Heaven. Another is Glimpses BeyondDeath’s Door. A more recent review is The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah.
Now back to the Twitter post. The thread is here. I am going to share only a little of it below this paragraph. I urge readers to go to the above link. The response from readers is also very interesting to read.
Some takeaways after my conversation with a hospice nurse of 12 years based on her experience:
… The people who have the smoothest transition to death tend to be those with a deep faith. The people who have the most difficulty are those who are adamantly anti-faith (rather than just having no faith)
… Men overwhelming more than women will pass when everyone has left the room. ...
… Based on what the dying have said during the end, it seemed to
her that they were seeing through sheer curtains, whereas we are always looking
at the other side through blackout curtains.
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Recently, LDS Apostle Jeffrey Holland,
who has been in poor health, more or less revealed to church members in the church’s
April conference that he had a near-death experience. I hear frequend anecdotes
about family members near death, conversing with deceased family members that
only they can see. I think that correlates with the hospice nurse’s comment
about “seeing through sheer curtains.”
The debate over life after death, or
whether we will greet deceased family and friends when we die, will always have
fervent supporters and opponents. The proof, for better or worse, arrives when
we die.
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