Seeing Dead Relatives Or Angels As You Die

[Henrietta]

Has anyone been there when anyone has died and seen them smiling as they can see something you can't or heard them say they can see angels or dead loved ones?

I had a convo with someone who said their grandad started smiling and talking to his dead wife who he could see as he he was dying just as he passed away.

Is there something in it or could this just be to the brain releasing dmt as you die and a hallucination?

Is this proof of a life beyond? How do scientists know that we release dmt as we die?

[murraymints]

My Fil was like this shortly before he passed... was having conversation with his late wife as if she was in the room...

[redman41]

Proving that there is life after death is impossible.
Personally I don't think there is, but I cannot prove otherwise
It's like trying to prove whether there is a God or not.

[woofgang]

I do believe there is something after this life BUT I have known people with dementia who also saw and spoke to their dead relatives when they were nowhere near death. Meds for Parkinson's disease used to be notorious for producing very real hallucinations, sometimes of dead relatives or pets. The one doesn't suggest the other.

[Brenden]

I was visiting my mother in hospital when she suddenly sat up and said Fred what are you doing here (my father had died 3 years previously) she was smiling and chatting to him, she died two days later so yes I do believe that my dad had come to escort her to the other side. Mum was not the only person I have witnessed seeing and talking to a dead relative.

[kvalidir]

It's a family story of ours that my great grandmother ( who wasn't ill or expecting to die) 'dreamed' that her dead son came to visit her and she became adamant that she was about to die. She died two days later of a sudden heart attack having been speaking to him that morning whilst wide awake. I didn't know her to judge her personality but I did know my grandmother who recounted it and I can't imagine she came from a family prone to flight of fancy, so it's all rather a mystery.

[KARL]

What you describe is a well known phenomenon but it is altogether unknown whether it is an actual indication of "another world" or an "afterlife". On the other hand, scientists are openly discussing the possibility of parallel universes. The two are not the same concept and unrelated - at least so far as scientists are concerned.

[andres]

I don't believe in life after death but for those who do there are some things to think about . Do you think spirits age? And do they die ? If not then Heaven must be very crowded . It would also be very disconcerting if say you met up with someone who died when they were very young and hadn't got any older.

[Old_Geezer]

There could be something in it.
It could be the brain hallucinating.
It could be considered evidence of existence beyond.

[pixie373]

I think it's more likely the body has an awareness that it's failing and it's natural to think of others that have passed away. Often dying people speak of a deceased husband or wife- it's impossible to say if they are "seeing" them- but nothing strange about thinking of them.

[atalanta]

This is known to be a typical phenomenon of the dying brain

[pixie373]

Yes, and also many people will mention a husband/wife that's died and survive years more - nobody sees any strangeness in that. Why attach it to an afterlife on the occasion they do it shortly before they die?

[paddywak]

As I've posted before back in the '70's I had a life threatening accident in the pit and I experianced nothing.No light at the end of the tunnel,nobody waiting ti guide me just pain till the morphine kicked in then nothing for four days.

[ladybirder]

If you are really interested in this phenomenon Henrietta, get hold of a copy of Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book 'On Life after Death'. She is the world's foremost expert on the subject of death, dying, and the afterlife.

[boxtops]

My grandmother and mother both did this, during their last minutes....

[ducksie]

I don't have an answer to that question, but would prefer to see a relative pass away like that, than in agony.

[pixie373]

To those that believe in the afterlife, is there a "before life" before you're born too? Just wondering where the soul or spirit comes from.

[237SJ]

My Dad keeled over with a heart attack whilst strimming the lawn. My Mum found him (and didn`t know what to do CPR wise) but she did say that he had a smile on his face. I expect that he was experiencing hallucinations that were a symptom of a dying brain but it made me feel better to know that he had a smile on his face when he died.

[Old_Geezer]

Would depend on who you ask Pixie. Ask someone who believes in reincarnation and the answer is definitely yes. Ask someone else whose beliefs are different and they may not believe the same. Some may believe the conception allows the opportunity for some spirit to become a soul thus there is a start to the individual, others believe something different, such as here "alive" is but one period of an existence that started long before; that if 'time' is a valid dimension out of the physical universe.

[pixie373]

Thanks og, so a spirit can literally come from nowhere at conception. It makes me wonder how many there can be from everybody who has ever and will ever live!

[andy-hughes]

I think the subconscious can know it is dying, and surely the most prominent thought to surface has to be the thought of a deeply loved one who has also died. The impact of that death must plant serious messages in the subconscious which then ponders the death of itself, and no doubt all that surfaces when the time of death is near.

We all grow as adults with the mystery of death to come, and we all think about, consciously and subconsciously, and that means that these thoughts are ready to come to the surface when the time of death arrives.