"Two days ago, my father passed away after a very long, painful, and slow cancer," reports Leszek. "Just before the moment that he died, I was at his bed in our home with my mother. We noticed that he stopped breathing, and that he kind of opened his eyes, much more clearly, gave one look at me, and one look at my mother. Just as we wanted to panic, his eyes -- very clearly, and with precise coardination -- rolled up to the top corner of the room behind me. They kept following something, until this something stopped in front of him, almost on top of him. His eyes, were clearly seeing something, and he looked very surprised or maybe even scared. In exactly the same moment, he seemed to feel something coming straight at him, and that is when he got a heart attack. Two seconds later he continued to look at this thing, much more peacefully now, and he got a second attack. After this, he started dying, and his eyes were closing fading away. Everything seemed very relaxed. About a week before his death, he was speaking about two or three of our dead family memebers, telling my mother that 'Tommorow they are going to work.'"
Thanks, Leszek. The deathbed vision phenomenon is quite fascinating and more common than you might think. We can't know with utmost certainty whether the dying are seeing passed loved ones coming for them, or if it is just an illusion. But there is some compelling anecdotal evidence for the former, which you can read about in these articles:
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Two years ago, when my beloved sister was on her death bed, my niece and I saw my nephew’s reflection in the window. My nephew pre-deceased my sister by nine years. I know that she could see him too but she was unable to communicate that to us at the time. She passed away soon after. I truly believe he was there to guide her into the light.
my mom was in icu and she pointed toward door
i asked her who is there she was not able to speak because of ventilator tubing i gave her writing pad
she wrote names of two her children who died 50 year ago i kept that pad and next day my mom died
i believe that those children were waiting for her
visit
I lost my sweet mother on April the 11th. at 1.32 PM, I was with her day and night at the Hospital in Germany. My Mom came from a very large family, she did see all of her brothers and sisters that passed away before her, and her mom and dad, she kept telling them that she could not come over yet, cause she could not see Pappa, her father, till a few days before she left us. I was so blessed to hold her when she passed over. I believe that I will see her again when my time comes, so I truly believe there is a life after death. Mom passed away in 1997, and I still miss her so, but I know she is with me always. Sigi
On May 13th 2008 my beloved sweet Daddy passed away at home from Acute Lymphocetic Leukemia. Minutes before his final breath, he looked up at my brother and a tear rolled out of his eye. I swear I could hear him in my head telling my brother to look after Mama. Then the room became very weirdly still. Daddy looked passed us and a tiny little smile passed across his face. Then he closed his eyes and passed peacefully to the next life. I never experienced stillness so intense. It wasn’t as if we were frozen, but somehow very subdued. Your Father was in the presence of his guide who took him over to the other side. No one leaves here alone, which is in it’s own way comforting. A week later, my brother “dreamed” of Daddy, who touched his arm and told him he had a “ghost license”. Only my brother swears he was awake and he felt Daddy’s warm arm. Your Father is on a journey in a new realm. Pay attention to little things, because he will visit you! Take care, Janet.
A social worker friend who worked in the terminal ward of a hospital told many stories via staff who witnessed a patient, too weak to even lift their heads off the pillow, suddenly be seen reaching upward and clutching at something unseen – as if an invisible arm not only held them in positions they were too weak to sustain, but actually pulling them upward, and in every instance someone walked by in the hallway to witness these recurring events, the faces of these patients were radiant with joy, smiling from ear to ear and recognized/spoke to departed loved ones.
My elderly Mum was in ICU, she was going to be moved to a better heart facility. I was going to ride with her in the ambulance.
She suddenly took notice of something in the room corner. Afterwards she related she saw her younger brother Harold there and he said she was going on a trip and everything was going to be alright.
We took her to a better heart specialist and she lived for another 12 years.
So it isn’t just near death bed visions but loved ones do assist or put ones mind at ease even way ahead of the passing on..
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When my dear uncle passed away in 1991, not only did he “see” departed siblings (he would point them out to us) he INSISTED on bathing a couple of nights before his passing. His last wish was to die in his home, in his bed which he did. Also when my father passed away in 1983, he too saw visions of the departed and HAD to bathe one day before his passing. I feel this is a “need” to be cleansed before meeting ones’ maker. Strange, indeed.
My father-in-law passed away January 2005 in our living room from cancer. We had brought him home to take care of him so he was more relaxed. The day before he passed he would look above himself and gasp, smile, then wave as if his family was coming to see him. His sister was there that day and he motioned for me to come closer. He whispered “Tell her not to cry, PeeWee is here and he says everything is going to be ok.” PeeWee was his brother who had passed a few years earlier.