I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying | Dr. Christopher Kerr | TEDxBuffalo

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  • Dr. Christopher Kerr speaks at a 2015 TEDx event Buffalo, New York.
    Dr. Christopher W. Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer at The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, where he has worked since 1999. His background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside, specifically patients’ dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated.
    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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  • @purplemister5974
    @purplemister5974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9228

    I worked at a hospital as a transporter. I moved beds, medicine, bloodtests and patients, including those who had recently passed away. Something I've noticed was that nurses were sometimes scared to follow me down into the morgue. They were scared of their own patients, just because the life had left the body. I was nervous and scared at first, but after a while I took my job with honor. A person's body is their greatest treasure, and it was my job to make sure that their treasure got moved down to the morgue with dignity. Some days were hard, some were not. But I always made sure that the feet of the deceased were properly tucked away, that their arms were crossed over their chest, that their body layed properly on the bed before I closed the door. It might just be corpses to some, but to me they're still valuable, and should be treated with respect.

    • @RotterStudios
      @RotterStudios 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      :)

    • @rakeshrana3852
      @rakeshrana3852 5 ปีที่แล้ว +512

      Thanks to God such people like you gracing this earth

    • @333-u9o
      @333-u9o 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      Thank you 🖤

    • @forreal245
      @forreal245 5 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      Ida A...You are a blessing from God.

    • @purplemister5974
      @purplemister5974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      Thank you so much for all these nice comments. ❤

  • @shaunamartinez3461
    @shaunamartinez3461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3031

    I was scheduled for surgery in 2010 and the morning of my surgery my mom and sister found out my uncle passed away suddenly the night before. They didnt tell me because they were afraid I wouldnt have my surgery. I had surgery and came home several hours later. I went to bed and slept through the night. My uncle visited me, standing at the foot of my bed and said I'd be just fine and he wanted to let me know my cancer was gone and he would keep an eye on me. Then he said goodbye and he loved me. It was vivid, and real.

    • @jenniferzhou8635
      @jenniferzhou8635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Hope you're doing well!

    • @praywithoutceasing2966
      @praywithoutceasing2966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Thank you for sharing 💙🙏🏼

    • @toryjohnson1305
      @toryjohnson1305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Oh it was definitely real, probably the realest thing you're ever going to witness until death itself

    • @ronaldk4225
      @ronaldk4225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Same thing happened to me when my grandma passed away, she was next to my bed, covering me with a blanket... It was so real, I can even smelling her... And when I was "awake" the blanket was on me... I use to sleep with my grandma everyday before she passed away...

    • @miriamcohen7657
      @miriamcohen7657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Thank you

  • @rtnarayanan
    @rtnarayanan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4463

    The last words my father said before his death was "I have to go, my parents are sitting here next to my bed, they want to take me somewhere".
    He was very relaxed and peaceful.

    • @youneedtocalljane
      @youneedtocalljane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +363

      I was with my dad when he died in my arms; his last words were "take care of your mom"; which I did. Was holding her hand when she died years later. I considered it an honor to be present for their passing

    • @AnitaD28
      @AnitaD28 7 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Jane Paxson - Jane, you were a great daughter and loving friend to your parents.

    • @GeorgiaIsOnMyMind
      @GeorgiaIsOnMyMind 7 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Jane Paxson I want to congratulate you for your luck in being the recipient of two such honarable chances.

    • @katiekat4457
      @katiekat4457 6 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      I am so sorry for your losses. It is very, very common especially for the elderly that when they are closer to passing that they see and call out to their moms. Or dads or both. It’s actually so common that it is one of the things that a hospice nurse might tell you that is a sign of the time of passing getting closer. I think it is really nice to think that maybe those who go before us are waiting. I sure hope that to be true. I feel like it is.

    • @nenab1969
      @nenab1969 6 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Katie Kat my pawpaw would call out for "momma" and my parents believe he was calling for his mother but he used to call my mammaw "momma" as well and she died less than 4 months before he did. Looking back on sure he was calling for his mother ......"momma" .....because the night actually less than 24 hrs before he died I was sitting in the room alone with him, watching him, at times he would look as if he had stopped breathing. During one If those breathless times he gasped, reached up, looked up and said, "Katie" that was my Mammaw's name........I miss him so much miss her too! I know I will see them again one day though!

  • @user-ps2mi9ze5v
    @user-ps2mi9ze5v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +685

    I was taking care of a hospice patient when my brother died. She hadn't spoken above a whisper in weeks. My brother died on a Thursday afternoon 7 months after a stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis. He was buried on a Sunday and I returned to work on Tuesday. Around 2am my patient clearly said "Your brother is here". She had no idea I had a brother. She didn't know my brother was sick and had died. I didn't see him, but I like to think he was there to comfort me. I miss him every day.

    • @aprilmartian5837
      @aprilmartian5837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Wow that's beautiful!!! 🧡

    • @laurafeher9694
      @laurafeher9694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      God love you for sharing this with me. Deep Respect

    • @marywalsh3290
      @marywalsh3290 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thank you for sharing this story.

    • @nightmessenger
      @nightmessenger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      OK, that got me choking up a wee bit, not gonna lie! So, heartwarming and yes that was for you! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @EastmanEditing
      @EastmanEditing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Wow. So powerful! Reading this a year later after you wrote this comment and it’s so comforting. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

  • @lab4389
    @lab4389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1577

    My brother died in a car crash when he was 27. I was 21, and had not experienced a close death before. It was the morning of his funeral. I barely slept. I was lying in bed very numb from shock, and I heard my heart music box come on. For about a minute. My brother was a musician, and I knew without a doubt it was him. What a gift. It taught me that our souls live on, and our love is everlasting. ❤️

    • @maggspaine5419
      @maggspaine5419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Oh how lovely for you

    • @jacquiventurini7877
      @jacquiventurini7877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's beautiful. I had something similar too x

    • @jamesnguyen7069
      @jamesnguyen7069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      they do and some will haunt their people who kill them

    • @chriskozak4966
      @chriskozak4966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I believe you! Life continues its journey in a spiritual way. Blessings 🙏🏽

    • @road2apples
      @road2apples 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@chriskozak4966 ♥✞♥Through the prophet he said, “I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting” (Isa. 50:6 )
      [Isaiah was written 700-750 years prior to the birth of Christ. Psalms was written about 1020 years prior to Jesus' birth. Since Jesus died in A.D. 30 or 33, the prophecies concerning his death were between 800 and 1050 years old when they were fulfilled.]
      Pray without ceasing… -1 Thessalonians 5:17♥✞♥✞♥

  • @jmw599
    @jmw599 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3961

    I was at a football game and the guy next to me fell out with a heart attack. They stopped the game and hit him often with the paddles. His color was an odd grey and I knew he was gone. I kept looking up because people always tell of floating up above their body. I kept staring up but saw nothing. The guy suddenly gave them a heartbeat and he was taken by helicopter to the hospital. I felt compelled to visit him two days later and when I walked in the hospital he immediately recognized me as the guy "who kept looking up at me," he said that I must have seen him because I was looking right at him above us. I left his room with very large goose bumps.

    • @michigancrownmolding
      @michigancrownmolding 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      wow... good one... very very believable..thank you so much for sharing, I cant wait to share your story with friends.... thank you again..

    • @kyletor6082
      @kyletor6082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Wow. Thanks JayT for sharing. O love it.

    • @rickstewart3584
      @rickstewart3584 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Jay...if your comment is true..then that is what researchers have been looking for...for decades now.

    • @taylor6735
      @taylor6735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      😳

    • @sherpatrailers150
      @sherpatrailers150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +423

      When my husband died, I remembered to look up, and throw him a goodbye kiss. I'll have to ask him someday if he noticed.

  • @wheatifer
    @wheatifer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +888

    I'm sitting here with tears running down my face, thinking, what a wonderful thing the internet is. We have the opportunity to realize how alike we are and to share these experiences with each other. Now I'm off to read the rest of these comments.

    • @alkasingh7227
      @alkasingh7227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We are alike.. But still we are alone.. No one can help us.. Not even alike people

    • @t.brackett7600
      @t.brackett7600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      9

    • @carolynaitken7632
      @carolynaitken7632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@alkasingh7227 Jesus will help us if we let him when we have Jesus in our lives we are never alone!

    • @YoursEteranally
      @YoursEteranally 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Okay you converted me. I'm just sad millions are going to be suffering for eternity. But hey at betterr them than us right?

    • @alkasingh7227
      @alkasingh7227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@carolynaitken7632 thank you

  • @sundog3150
    @sundog3150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    I was a volunteer helper for Hospice. I would go to the homes of patients and give the families some relief to run errands, take a break, etc. while I watched their loved one. One case involved a 90 year old man, very close to death. While sitting with him, he suddenly bolted upright, looked around his bed and said to me, with eyes bright and shinning, “They are all here, they tell me a party is going on and they came to get me.” He started calling out names of men, interspersing them with loud cowboy type whoops. When he finally fell silent, eyes closed he had the biggest smile on his face. I had written down all he had said at the request of his son. Later that day the son returned and told me that the names were of his fathers best friends, fellow cowboys that had worked a cattle ranch, out west, for years. They had all passed away. I can’t tell you how much joy it gave the son to think that his father’s friends had come for him to take him to a party.

    • @youtube.comJ-NETERER18
      @youtube.comJ-NETERER18 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Beautiful and that party was in heaven

    • @savage22bolt32
      @savage22bolt32 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Too bad you didn't have a tape recorder or smartphone.

    • @RowanWarren78
      @RowanWarren78 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      One of the last things my great uncle said as he was dying was, "my cows are here"!! He was a farmer with cows that he was very attached to, almost like pets. This is not only reassuring to me concerning the subject of an afterlife, but also makes me hopefully that there are animals present in paradise. It wouldn't really be paradise without them. ❤️🐾

    • @savage22bolt32
      @savage22bolt32 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@RowanWarren78 very interesting. I want to hold & pet my orange cat Jaguar. He died when I was 7.

    • @philclothier9028
      @philclothier9028 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Okay 😢😢😢

  • @judyvalencia3257
    @judyvalencia3257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1319

    I was a nurse for 32 yrs. and it's true. I believe that they are not hallucinations,but that they are the loved ones that have gone on before and they have come to guide them to the afterlife. When they start seeing their dead loved ones and they start communicating with them, then death is close. I feel comforted knowing when my time comes my mother and grandmother will come to take me home.

    • @2eretz
      @2eretz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I was a volunteer at a local hospital one night I walked into a room and there with the patient was 2 sisters (family) and the patient was talking with her eyes closed I asked the family who was the patient addressing? They answered “oh don’t mind her she must’ve delusional she’s speaking to a family member that passed well the next morning I went by and the bed was empty and I was told she past away last night

    • @covidinfectedmonkeypox6775
      @covidinfectedmonkeypox6775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      When people die the chemical DMT
      Is released into the brain and causes hallucinations peaceful hallucinations often causing the people to see family members who have already passed away this phenomenon has been studied by neurological scientists and doctors and they studied people who had flat lined on operation tables during surgeries and because they had technically died chemicals were released and caused them to experience out of body experiences and dead relatives comforting them but religious people don't want to hear that it's caused by chemicals releasing after the brain stops receiving oxygen instead most people prefer to believe that there is an afterlife an i don't blame them I'd like to believe that too but unfortunately I wasn't able to just accept that there was an afterlife I wanted to know if there were any other possible reasons that could cause people to experience these visions and after researching for a long time and following what these scientists and doctors were learning I had to agree with them because it's evidence that's been presented and can't be ignored like when a person takes DMT it causes the same type of effects that it does when it's naturally released by the brain it seems that our body is so impressively designed that it has a way of making death peaceful and not scary which is remarkable and at the same time not surprising considering how impressive the human body well all living things bodies but ya I still like to listen to people tell these stories because deep down I of course want to still believe that there is an afterlife I have lots of people that would be there 😊

    • @raptureready5004
      @raptureready5004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I was there when my Dad was dying, I brought him back, and asked him if he saw anything and he said "no"

    • @judyvalencia3257
      @judyvalencia3257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@raptureready5004 I think there's a difference in dying and being brought back from the dead. He probably didn't have time to actually fully cross over? Just saying.

    • @raptureready5004
      @raptureready5004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@judyvalencia3257 no he didn't, but he was and so many people have loved ones appear to them even before they die, And here he was deep in the process, it shocked me he said he saw nothing. Terribly sad.

  • @karenpatterson8574
    @karenpatterson8574 5 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    Dr. Kerr was the dr who was in charge of my dads care when he was in hospice care in 2004. He was a compassionate and very warm person in caring for my dad. I’ll be forever thankful for his presence during that time.

    • @christopherkerr7692
      @christopherkerr7692 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Thank you so much for remembering me Karen! So nice to read. Hope you are well

    • @meganlee162
      @meganlee162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The power and emotion behind his voice had me sobbing during his whole lecture. I feel what a force that man is.

    • @admiralhyperspace0015
      @admiralhyperspace0015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@christopherkerr7692 Thank You so much for your work. I also want to do similar studies in future.

    • @rebeccadrayton3345
      @rebeccadrayton3345 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      After reading Dr. Kerrs book, I am now enrolled in a death doula course with the university of Vermont. ❤so grateful

  • @bella_k5230
    @bella_k5230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1649

    I had a patient up in step down who was actively dying. As her nurse I stayed by her side and comforted her as much as I could. After about 20 min she began to wave towards the corner of the room. She had this immediate glow and joy. She grabbed my hand and said “look say hello to my mom” she began reaching her arms out to the the empty corner of the room. She died within the hour. So yes, I can confirm these things happen and there is no class or lecture about it🙏

    • @StopListenThink
      @StopListenThink 2 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      My father was dying he described four large beings that were brightly shining in gold…. And then he began to speak in ancient Hebrew…. My fathers has Only ever spoken broken English and Spanish -

    • @lisavan504
      @lisavan504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Bless you for sharing this and for the selfless work you do. No doubt, nurses are very special people in all they do, give especially comfort.

    • @peransix864
      @peransix864 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@StopListenThink My wife spoke in ver fluent latin as she died ,,a friend was with us he was a priest whorfecognised the language as a very old style of latin not usaed for ages ,,but she was having a conversationn with whoever in this other tongue ,,,

    • @StopListenThink
      @StopListenThink 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@peransix864 It is a miracle when you see things like this I don’t know who was there (spirit)with him but he was also doing the same thing and he spoke in third person to those in the room about my dad

    • @StopListenThink
      @StopListenThink 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@peransix864 I am sorry for your loss by the way but you will see them again

  • @NoyChemChan
    @NoyChemChan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    I helped my Dad transition on 4/22/22. “Daddy, what would you like to stay or go?” I looked at him laying there without answering me. I can see him (his spirit) looking at me then at my mom sleeping at the hospital chair. “I’m worried about your mom,” he said. It was hard to him to let go of her, together for almost 50 years. He was looking to her for guidance & permission. Permission for him to leave this realm and go to another. To confirm she will ok without him. He wouldn’t leave until she said it’s ok to go sweetheart. I’ll be ok. :) it was the most heart touching moment of my life. I lost my Dad but I gained the true meaning of love.

    • @alexsimonelis164
      @alexsimonelis164 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      God bless you all!

    • @wealth2815
      @wealth2815 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I said the same to my father as he lay dying in hospital

  • @j03v1955
    @j03v1955 4 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Four days before my 89 year old father passed away l saw him raise his right hand and said " I'm coming mum, be patient I'll be there soon, I'll be there in four days". Four days later he passed. My father really loved his mother and it gave me great comfort knowing that she was there to greet him

    • @jamesnguyen7069
      @jamesnguyen7069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      winchester mystery house. the lady stop building and died

    • @lordcromwell5512
      @lordcromwell5512 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      God bless.

  • @tracy1394
    @tracy1394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +690

    My grandmother, on her dying bed, said there were angels in her closet and also told here daughter, who could not have children, that she was pregnant. Her daughter told her that can't be. You know that I cannot have children. Eight months she delivered a baby boy.

  • @paulcresswell2279
    @paulcresswell2279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +560

    A few yrs ago as a police officer I found a girl hanging. I stayed with her as I didn't want to leave her until the soco had finished and the ambulance crew I took her. I was nervous and scared but at one moment I felt calm and I felt a breeze pass me. My colleague looked at me and said that's her going. He was a very experienced officer not someone given to emotion or religious beliefs. He knew tho just as I did.
    First time iv shared this

    • @EM-fs8nb
      @EM-fs8nb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Maybe it was her way of saying thank you 🙏

    • @katrinaasmrr
      @katrinaasmrr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Thank you for sharing 💙 my father’s a retired Leo. Your hard work is commended

    • @paulcresswell2279
      @paulcresswell2279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@katrinaasmrr that's kind of you. It's just something that has stayed with me.

    • @paulcresswell2279
      @paulcresswell2279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Iv just subbed to your channel. I'm lucky to feel the effects from asmr

    • @katrinaasmrr
      @katrinaasmrr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@paulcresswell2279 you feel that relaxing sensation? 🙂 the “tingles” ? Glad to have you there! Stay in touch. Would love to make sure you’re doing well.

  • @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke
    @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +568

    My dad passed yesterday and my mother and I were blessed to be at his bedside as he took his final breath. I believe he sent me this video 💕

    • @jacqui2651
      @jacqui2651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I'm so sorry for your loss, I believe your dad did also. Sending you a hug from Oz.

    • @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke
      @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Kellybean 1 Hi. I just watched this video again. But I really do not remember watching it back in August when my dad died. Today is Dec 17, which marks 4 months since his passing. If you had not commented today on my original post I would not have gotten to see this video. Thank you Kellybean.

    • @MusicCoverSelena
      @MusicCoverSelena 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm so sorry. my condolences ❤️

    • @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke
      @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@intuitivediane thank you so much. coming up on 6 months since his passing and still not easy.

    • @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke
      @Faith.is.Awake.notwoke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jacqui2651 thank you so much!

  • @sunnygirl87
    @sunnygirl87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2001

    "Mom, we dont really die." My son said this to me about six months after he was murdered.
    I know he is speaking from Peace Love & Light

    • @joannemp6786
      @joannemp6786 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      🙏🙏🙏

    • @angelalackey3521
      @angelalackey3521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Can you into more detail please for those of us seeking these signs? When and how

    • @sunnygirl87
      @sunnygirl87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      @@angelalackey3521 Try this, any time you think of them, smell their scent/cigar/perfume, see their birthday, name, favorite bird, it is them.

    • @mafaldaamaro8536
      @mafaldaamaro8536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      I’m so sorry your son passed away... truly believe He is happy and in peace 💛🙏

    • @arijimenez2872
      @arijimenez2872 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      yes of course... YOUR SON IS ALIVE,!! AND I'M SURE SORROUNDED OF TO MUCH PEACE AND LOVE

  • @kevintquin4641
    @kevintquin4641 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1959

    Thank you, your talk gives me hope. Recently lost my daughter, 22, to suicide, I’m battling a rare heart disease. This gives me some measure of inner peace.

    • @klujics123
      @klujics123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Kevin T Quin sorry for your loss.

    • @mille6se
      @mille6se 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    • @timothychamberlin6985
      @timothychamberlin6985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I am so sorry....

    • @Ghostrabbit22
      @Ghostrabbit22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      my 2 year old son was desperately ill in hospital wired up to machines we just didnt know if he would live or die i walked into the room with a strong smell of pipe tobacco the type my father always smoked ,, i found the two doctors and a professor on duty and asked them if they smoked none did ,, the few guys there were all under 25 its ridiculous to think that someone would smoke on a childrens ward §§! I know 100% that my father was there looking after my son

    • @dianestallworthy4421
      @dianestallworthy4421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      She was one of the rare, super-sensitive souls who found life too difficult but now she's free and when you are finally ready, she will sweep you up into her arms and your poor old heart will be full and strong forever... xxxx

  • @SweetUniverse
    @SweetUniverse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1106

    When my bff was dying of cancer, she was fighting. She didn't want to die. She was still a young 60 yrs old. The day before her body gave out, she became at peace. She stopped fighting and said, "I love you all, but my dad's here and I'm going to go with him." We both believed in reincarnation and promised that in the next life we would come back as sisters.

    • @jenniferho5183
      @jenniferho5183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      On the morning of my husband's uncle passing ,he came into his dream and said " Goodbye".
      My husband jumped out of his bed n said to me , " I think my uncle has passed away." We left for the hospital and his aunt greeted us, " who informed you that your uncle has passed on?" My husband was absolutely shocked n surprised. He replied, " He came to say goodbye. " that's why l am here.

    • @flowerpower9541
      @flowerpower9541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      I will forever be haunted by my mother's passing. She didn't have a peaceful passing. She was not communicating, and was literally fighting..rolling around, (I've wondered if she was in extreme pain). Couple hours later, I wasn't with her, the person with her, said there was nothing inspiring and comforting for us to hold onto as she went, she had just stilled, opened her eyes for a moment, and left us. These stories are comforting to me, to hope that momma received that peace

    • @vasudevsarvam6912
      @vasudevsarvam6912 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@flowerpower9541 You literally commented 1 minute before lol on not so active thread....Hahaha.

    • @flowerpower9541
      @flowerpower9541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@vasudevsarvam6912 what? Gee thanks for your sensitivity. Considering how I was feeling writing about my mother. I don't know what you are talking about

    • @janicewood1734
      @janicewood1734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@flowerpower9541 take no pass of him. Idk why that he said that Bonnie Potter but I feel like your mom did indeed have peace @ the end. Take care miss Bonnie Potter your name is like a storybook name that gives children peace. Your mom named you well. 💞

  • @azu7495
    @azu7495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +311

    I am 20 years old and my dad passed away just a month back. He wasn't sick or diagnosed with anything, it was just a massive irreversible cardiac arrest. I have been so devastated and heartbroken and in so much pain. Watching this video made me smile for the first time since then. Thank you.
    My dad hasn't visited me yet. I wait for him every day, I am desperate to see him and hear his voice one more time. I am going to wait. Dad, please come and visit me. I feel very alone and broken 😭

    • @polynsngirl47
      @polynsngirl47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I’m sorry about your dad’s passing. When you grieve, it makes it harder for them to visit you. What they need most is a prayer. When you see him in your dreams at night, and say you are hugging him, he uses telepathy to communicate, he feels like flesh, looks younger, these are all signs that the “dream” was a real visit.

    • @azu7495
      @azu7495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@polynsngirl47 but why haven't I seen him yet ? 😭 I am so desperate

    • @glory1star
      @glory1star 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@azu7495 hello girlie! Sorry about your your dad! It’s been 1 year now has he visit you yet? Hope so

    • @AndNowIWrite
      @AndNowIWrite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I hope you are well. Grief is difficult and personal for each one. Look for your dad in your dreams and in symbols. I wish peace for you.

    • @Homotekno
      @Homotekno 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ibogaine or ayawasca 🙏🏻

  • @lahoucine66
    @lahoucine66 6 ปีที่แล้ว +480

    Am unable to stop reading the comments section of this video . Really amazing stories and spiritual experiences .

    • @ShrimpPerr
      @ShrimpPerr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Quran Now Same here!

    • @elizaeri1295
      @elizaeri1295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ikr...I have to rewind the video and refrained myself from scrolling 😬...so that I wouldn't miss the talk

    • @AdventureswithAmirah
      @AdventureswithAmirah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      💗🌟🌟🌟

    • @tejaswinizumbre4205
      @tejaswinizumbre4205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Same here! I couldn't stop reading the comments..! As someone put it, the internet is an incredible thing... the comments shows vastly different people having similar experiences and how similar we humans are.. our spirits are eternal.. !

    • @grabbagcrafting6004
      @grabbagcrafting6004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me2

  • @roseysherbert58
    @roseysherbert58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +836

    i lost my daughter five weeks ago i truly hope she is in a better place now, after watching this video i think she might be, i just cannot wait to see her again i miss her so much

    • @smart22cute
      @smart22cute 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      So sorry for your loss. You're not alone, my boyfriend lost his son a month ago and I lost my daughter 5 years ago. I believe life continues and that we will see our love ones again in the next life. I pray you find peace and comfort in fond memories

    • @rosemarysolorio8101
      @rosemarysolorio8101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sorry for you’re loss...

    • @user-ps2mi9ze5v
      @user-ps2mi9ze5v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Condolences to you, I'm so sorry. I wish you peace 🕊️

    • @ohdear2275
      @ohdear2275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I am very sorry for your heartbreak 💔
      If it feels right to you, talk to your daughter, and ask God to deliver your messages.
      I do this with my deceased father, youngest brother, and with my grandparents. It is a comfort to me.
      And we WILL see them again. I know it.

    • @ec8787
      @ec8787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My condolences 💐

  • @JanCannell
    @JanCannell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +887

    As a hospice nurse, I can identify with all of this. Have seen it countless times. Great information.

    • @nancyfriedberg9516
      @nancyfriedberg9516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Thank you for your work

    • @kittydeckard4965
      @kittydeckard4965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I have lost my husband and I'm now alone and will say this was so comforting to me.

    • @xrpvegas5407
      @xrpvegas5407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@kittydeckard4965 sorry for your loss... I was with my mom when she died... it still bothers me

    • @loisdick5307
      @loisdick5307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@xrpvegas5407 i was with my mum too

    • @pmarreck
      @pmarreck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      lost my mom last year.
      thank you for your service

  • @gailknight3128
    @gailknight3128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I remember a patient who was never very talkative and it was very difficult to even get a smile from him. Not because he was in pain or seriously ill. Went by him one day and he was looking up towards the ceiling smiling his head off, looked so happy. I asked him if was OK, barely moving his head, he said yes. I went into the sluice room, only for a couple of minutes, came out and he had died. But I'll always remember the sheer look of joy on his face, I believe he was seeing something, or someone which made him so happy. That was nearly fifty years ago, and I've never forgotten.

  • @mierbeuker8148
    @mierbeuker8148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    I've pondered this subject many times in the past, always wondering which one of my very dysfunctional family will be waiting for me. Growing up mostly in foster homes, I don't really have any family that I was ever "close to". But as a military veteran I think I will have a much better reception than most, when all my buddies come for me.

    • @patriciavalencia2674
      @patriciavalencia2674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      No doubt.

    • @SweetUniverse
      @SweetUniverse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Sometimes angels come for people

    • @melissai4798
      @melissai4798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Your immediate family may have been assholes but you can be reassured you have many many great great grandmother and grandfathers who have watched over you and care for you will be there, along with your buddies of course!

    • @CK61380
      @CK61380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      When your family passes, even the bad ones they will be showered by light and love. Your parents will meet you on the other side and all will be forgiven.

    • @NinaAndCoco
      @NinaAndCoco 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It will be your buddies. For sure. X

  • @simosc2
    @simosc2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +833

    Thank you, Dr. Kerr. I am an old woman, closer to death than life. Your talk was very comforting. God bless you and your work.

    • @TiggerHappy68
      @TiggerHappy68 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      The Bible is the “Book of Instructions Before leaving earth” fear of death is not there when you know you’ll be in heaven if you accept that Jesus died for our sins. I have so much more peace now and realize our spirits live on and our bodies are just a tent!

    • @tammyslaughter9587
      @tammyslaughter9587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@TiggerHappy68 I know and deeply love Jesus and hope to meet Him after death but I do not believe He came here on earth to die "for" our sins. He died "because" of our sins!! He came here and brought so much to enhance our world and to teach us and we kill Him. Killing Him was not enough but then we had to torture Him and humanity's excuse and justification for doing such a horrendous thing is to in turn say that it was required from our loving Father in heaven to erase our sins. What a travesty!

    • @Dee8Bee
      @Dee8Bee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      simosc2 if you are interested, you can read the books of Dr. Brian L. Weiss. His books about patients and their previous lives give me great comfort.

    • @jennw5299
      @jennw5299 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i hope you find peace

    • @Jkstolz
      @Jkstolz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      May God Bless you as well ❤💓

  • @margscarpone
    @margscarpone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    My dad died when I was 9. He’d been in the hospital after a surgery and I think he knew he was nearing the end of his life, but I remember him being very emotional when we went to visit him. That night after coming home, he visited me in my dream. It was kind of what Heaven looks like to any child. We were in the sky surrounded by clouds, and while I’m sure there were other people around I just distinctly remember seeing my father dressed all in white. He was very tearful and said that he was sorry and that he loved me. Then I woke up and when my mom’s phone rang I knew that it was the hospital and that he had died.
    I’ve never told my family about this because I know they wouldn’t understand or would think it was just a dream, but it was real. Thanks to this final meeting, I never cried about my father’s death. Part of me thought it was weird for the longest time, but then I realized I’d been able to say my goodbyes peacefully and I knew he was safe so of course I wasn’t sad. I’ve always been a bit afraid of the actual process of dying, but after that day I’ve never been afraid of life after death.

    • @heatherwoodley8244
      @heatherwoodley8244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      God bless you. I'm so sorry you lost a parent at such a young age, but happy for you that you've always been at peace and your Dad is still watching over you.

    • @najeebullahmohmand2740
      @najeebullahmohmand2740 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Greetings.
      It may sound weird but I have the same story.
      My dad was at the hospital due to COVID-19 and I was with him the day before his death and by night I came home for rest and my brother went to look after him. I could not sleep all night I prayed for him alot and then in the morning I got asleep for a while and at that nap (((I saw my father in dream he told me for shopping and I said ok I will go it in a minute I am little busy now. Then he stood and said it's all right son I will go, I said no I am just leaving but resisted and forced me to stay and left on his bicycle waving behind the back and at the very moment I woke up by a scream of my sister holding phone. I was half awake and I was telling her as if I was still in dream, "has he left?" She screamed yes he died. And Then I woke up completely and realized that he has gone from our life at the same moment that I dreamed him leaving. ))) Both dream leaving and real dieing was at same time. I was 19 and That was the first family members I lost as a grown up boy. It was extremely difficult but now I am relaxed and waiting for his peacefull call.

  • @bevkern3858
    @bevkern3858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Lost my dad in 1984 he was in a wreck 54 yes old . He came to me in my dream after the funeral .I was in a deep sleep he told me he was ok and he held me and he said he was ok . And he showed me inside heaven . But he said it was not my time I had many more yes to live . It was so real I was in a deep deep sleep . Woke up crying . But it gave me peace. .

  • @darrenglick100
    @darrenglick100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    A few years after my Nanny (grandmother) passed, I had a dream where she appeared vibrant and illuminated. I had never had a dream of her before or since. She only said two words "Its True"! And so I was racking my brain as to what exactly she was referring to. After about a week or less, I remembered I had had a conversation about God and Afterlife with her. She knew I was a believer in the Afterlife and asked me what made me so sure. I told her (at the time she was in her 80s) I was pretty sure, but that is more likely that she would know for certain before me. So we both made an agreement that whoever found out the Truth first would try to tell the other one!

    • @brendawatson757
      @brendawatson757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Darren Glick 7

    • @olgaadubova
      @olgaadubova 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I have had the same agreement with my father. He passed away some days ago....

    • @darrenglick100
      @darrenglick100 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@olgaadubova and?

    • @olgaadubova
      @olgaadubova 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@darrenglick100 still nothing

    • @darrenglick100
      @darrenglick100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@olgaadubova give it time!

  • @taramiller2672
    @taramiller2672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +619

    About 6 years after my mom died, i was laying in bed one morning still sleeping. Then i felt someone pat my leg and say "Time to get up sweety"... it was my mom. Without opening my eyes i answered "ok mom, just give me a few more minutes "...Then i realized...ITS MOM!!! And i sat up suddenly wide awake! She was gone. But, i know she was really there. I felt her touch and heard her voice. I'll never forget it.

    • @danmccurry3810
      @danmccurry3810 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Touching story, thanks for sharing.

    • @judybooth110
      @judybooth110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually this is not according to the Bible.

    • @danmccurry3810
      @danmccurry3810 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@judybooth110 She is a witness to her moms voice and knew in her spirit. She's not selling a doctrine or denomination. As for Jesus and God of the and the Holy bible...The miracles and acts of God are countless...If everyone of them were described in detail, I suppose the world itself could not contain the books that should be written..Amen John 21:25

    • @AD-ts7zb
      @AD-ts7zb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Tara Miller The devils have been living around us for thousand of years, they know us from the day we were born until the day we passed away, it’s very easy for them to mimic anyone and usually the dead one. I believe the spirits of the deceased are in a place of a different dimension, no longer in this world.

    • @danmccurry3810
      @danmccurry3810 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I agree with you on that matter, familiar spirits do exist, but so does God's angels .In this case Miss Miller had a fearless feeling of peace and closure!
      "On the hand devils leave fear, confusion and no peace or closure"

  • @skylark72ls
    @skylark72ls 7 ปีที่แล้ว +625

    I love this.... as a former Hospice nurse I can tell you this is all true.

    • @LK-pc4sq
      @LK-pc4sq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lisa, did the dying seniors see the spirits of loved ones in the room waiting for them to move to the other side?

    • @amorfati2192
      @amorfati2192 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      LK I was a care assistant to the elderly for 13yrs, common place for people to see deceased loved ones.

    • @dianer6056
      @dianer6056 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      As a nurse in charge of a geriatric ward - this is in line with the many things they told me before they died

    • @rogerdarev7374
      @rogerdarev7374 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hey Lisa, just wondering if the people you were around was all believers or if some were not? Just wondering.

    • @shihtzumom1283
      @shihtzumom1283 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m a NICCU nurse

  • @michaelmcilvoy3448
    @michaelmcilvoy3448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I lost my Father in 2017. He was very close to my middle daughter. She looked up to him and loved him very much . She suddenly passed away 4 weeks ago at 28 years old. I take great comfort in thinking that he was there for her when she passed and they are together now telling jokes like they used to do.

    • @bethmarshall4796
      @bethmarshall4796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      so sorry for the loss of your child.

  • @frenchysmith7473
    @frenchysmith7473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    We should always remember how mortal we are, then maybe we wouldn't do so many horrible things to each other.

    • @spencerfrankclayton4348
      @spencerfrankclayton4348 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Actually, if we thought about how immortal we are, then maybe we wouldn't do horrible things. If there's no afterlife, our actions don't matter at all.

    • @lorimiller4301
      @lorimiller4301 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We are Eternal. That's how Karma works. It couldn't possibly work in only one life. Nothing works like that. There is always growth and recycling. That's how we learn. We have to agree to forget the truth in order to gain and grow from the experience. Just like you know Movies aren't real but you agree to forget in order to really get into it. Now that the veil is thinning some of us are remembering. I just happen to recall more than usual.

    • @imogenjennings3992
      @imogenjennings3992 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree with you about people not being horrible to each other, but God our creator doesn't forget (smile) and i do believe that is why we have de ja vues, or feeling like weve met someone before. Thats probably because we have and it could have been that person who we was rude to and God giving us the chance to go within, reflect and think "ok lifes too short whats the point in harming others" its a mad genius world! Blessings to you x

    • @laronzacoleman3121
      @laronzacoleman3121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True! I don't know too much of reincarnation or karma, but I feel like I've lived this life before. I've had dreams of meeting and seeing people but their faces are always shadowed, but the surroundings are clear. Some I already knew for years, but their circumstance would lead me to them but not knowing right away it's that person until I'm face to face with them. I believe in God/Jesus, and They have given me predictions about people passing away, and people to stay away from, and my Guardian Angel coming to me, and also my son's Guardian Angel coming to me before he was born.

    • @Betafish333
      @Betafish333 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What a beautiful savy frase ❤

  • @melodyneibert1424
    @melodyneibert1424 7 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    It is the most wonderful blessing to be present at a birth and the greatest honor to walk with someone to their death

    • @AnitaBarneycastle
      @AnitaBarneycastle 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Melody Neibert amen!

    • @themacocko6311
      @themacocko6311 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Melody Neibert That was awesome!

    • @nextwave1314
      @nextwave1314 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Melody Neibert
      Such a beautiful sentiment.

    • @dawnriley1625
      @dawnriley1625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So true! I’m so connected to that too!

    • @j1sc211
      @j1sc211 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amen. Beautiful words.❤

  • @stephanierising4368
    @stephanierising4368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +538

    I had brain surgery and was frightened out of my mind.The night before my surgery my deceased father (died when I was 13) spent what I perceived to be hours of him hanging out with me in my dreams. We sat together and talked for hours. Then he came to me again as I was waking up. He said tell your mother I am there for her also. I messaged her at 5 am (surgery at 7) and I told her what he said. She was astonished and indicated she had been up hours crying by that time. My dad ironically died during surgery. I was afforded peace by that dream. They don’t occur only when you die, but at other profound moments in your life.

    • @mariaanaliereyes2956
      @mariaanaliereyes2956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      That's so true. When my had a few weeks to live, my grand mother who pass away appeared on my dream asking me why am I crying? I told her mom is dying of cancer. As soon as I told her that and as soon I had realized I was talking to my dead grandmother she disappeared and I woke up. But that dream gave me comfort that she was looking after me. Also to add a few days before my mom pass away she was asking the PSW helper if saw her mom. So yes my grandmother was with her on her death.

    • @lisaloyaga573
      @lisaloyaga573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes,they are there to encourage you

    • @stanleystcyr4307
      @stanleystcyr4307 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sad. But. Its life may lord. God be wit us always amen an thank you lord an saviour hallelujah praise god ❤❤❤❤❤😐

    • @derekthompson5399
      @derekthompson5399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      To try and describe what you experienced perhaps means little little to anyone else but I do think the movie *Ghost* was the best example of someone trying to put a death scene into words I watch that movew time and time again it is the perfect expression to me out how all the mansion worlds of creation are all linked together ans we experience them with our emotions not our brain.

    • @ohdear2275
      @ohdear2275 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mariaanaliereyes2956 That's beautiful. I'm sorry for your loss. You'll see them both again

  • @salsero397
    @salsero397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    My Son passed away Jan 5 2021 after a long battle with addictions. Thank you very much for the information. Many of us appreciate your conforming words

    • @wednesdayschild3627
      @wednesdayschild3627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My brother died from addiction. Ot is a terrible thing. Sorry for your loss

    • @salsero397
      @salsero397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@wednesdayschild3627 Thank you friend. So sorry for your Pain also. May God give us Strength to keep living without our love ones. 🙏🙏

    • @uglyroach4063
      @uglyroach4063 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lost my son 2/22 at age of 38, addictions as well. I can’t wait until I can see him again.

    • @marthakaine4132
      @marthakaine4132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sorry for your loss

    • @jaqenhgar7732
      @jaqenhgar7732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

  • @jinxsmith275
    @jinxsmith275 5 ปีที่แล้ว +623

    This guy is good. And he makes me want to better myself and help people and stop wasting time and start living up to my full potential because I have not.

    • @jessicadoban2564
      @jessicadoban2564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I literally thought this very same thing. We will get there.

    • @greeneyedcat2748
      @greeneyedcat2748 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm hearing that clearly too.

    • @Lwolfjaw07
      @Lwolfjaw07 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Outstanding. Jordan Peterson says that you should carry a burden in order to give your life purpose and meaning and you should pick what that shall be. I think that you are on the path to enlightenment. Good.

    • @virgie4715
      @virgie4715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same. I’ve been on a “journey” of “finding my purpose” for lack of less-tacky terms lol and this is the second time I’ve ended up on this exact same ted talk with this exact same mindset I’m in right now. I’m gonna listen a little better this time.

    • @jessicastarlight8937
      @jessicastarlight8937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What about now, we are all dead two metter, from each other😕😕😕

  • @jameslipke354
    @jameslipke354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    As someone who started out as a CNA in a nursing home at the age of 20, I'll be 55 in 8 days, I have had the privilege of witnessing what this Doctor shared. I worked in the medical field for over 20 years. I have witnessed true beauty in my life when each one of my kids and granddaughter were born; but also when tending to those who are physically leaving this world. Their stories truly have been illuminating. The privilege has been all mine. ~April Lipke

    • @cinaannie7338
      @cinaannie7338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I also was in the nursing home field. As a CNA also. I've had the privilege of holding people as they take their last breath. So often people gather near and far for weddings births and even divorces! But sometimes in nursing homes, people are there to dial by themselves. I've been asked how I could do this type of work. My response to them is I can't visualize myself doing anything else.

    • @jameslipke354
      @jameslipke354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@cinaannie7338 Very well said Cina Annie. Well said indeed. Too many fail to realize that it has been an absolute privilege to be present during those moments. It's such a shame. ❤
      ~ APRIL LIPKE

    • @palestinalibre7
      @palestinalibre7 ปีที่แล้ว

      :(

  • @sandyblue8082
    @sandyblue8082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    My mum and dad were in bed and Mum saw my Dad sit up, look in front of him and smile the most beautiful smile, then he passed over. When my Mum was a couple of weeks from her passing, heavily sedated and sleeping in her chair, she suddenly opened her eyes, smiled a beautiful smile and said "Your dad just kissed me". Both experiences soothed their passings I know.

  • @sarahcosta4882
    @sarahcosta4882 3 ปีที่แล้ว +608

    I worked for 20 years in assisted living, in that time I have seen many elderly pass from this world to the next. The one thing they all had in common was that their deceased relatives were coming to them in dreams to take them home. On a personal note, my daughter who was in a coma for six weeks told me her grandparents were around her bed telling her that everything was going to be alright and not to worry. He father, Uncle, and Aunt were also there, all these family members had passed away. She said she was frightened at first but then she felt better. My daughter passed away five months later. I know she is with family who love her.

    • @violettheorgangrinder3232
      @violettheorgangrinder3232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      My deepest condolences on your terrible loss. But at least you know for certain she is with your family and they are taking care of her.

    • @godschild4988
      @godschild4988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Condolences and prayers for you and your family ✝️🙏

    • @flashesintimephotography4867
      @flashesintimephotography4867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I’m terribly sorry for your loss. What a beautiful passing she had running into the arms of all those loved ones. I’m glad she got the chance to communicate this to you.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What exactly is your evidence for a "next world"? - It is fantasy, is it not?

    • @zeroounce8874
      @zeroounce8874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      My stepdad had visitations from his family and friends 2months prior to his death. First incident was- He told my mum that he was having good time with his friends, his friends visited him and they had a party in his home. When actually we all knew he was by himself. From that day he had visitations from members of dead family and friends for 2 months. He would talk to them but at the same time was aware what was happening in this world. Doctors told my mum he will die soon. Even though he was fine, didn’t have any illnesses but I guess they knew that his time has come because of these visitations. They called it hallucinations, which in reality is very real.

  • @rachelpitt945
    @rachelpitt945 6 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    My aunt dreams of family members around her. In her last dream, she saw a tall dark haired handsome young man stand up amongst them. She needed no words. She knew it was my son, who passed away this year., he was no longer in his wheelchair, completely healed.

  • @ohmeowzer1
    @ohmeowzer1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +621

    I’m not afraid to die ,,I miss my family that died ,,I look forward to the day ...I’m old and miss them so much

    • @frncscbtncrt
      @frncscbtncrt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Hugs to you Beth

    • @360.Tapestry
      @360.Tapestry 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      travel well

    • @SB-mp4zt
      @SB-mp4zt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    • @lisagerman2111
      @lisagerman2111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Beth g; I respect your position and view re death - it should not be feared. While I'm relatively 'young' @ 60yrs, there are more than a few days that I also feel tired and miss all those who have gone before. I'm now the only living person in my immediate family - the sorrow when I reach for the phone to share antics of grandchildren with my parents / brother, all passed now, is a sharp hit in realizing yet again there's no-one left to laugh over past and present. The sharpest hit is in realizing that there is no-one left to ask for clarification of shared memories of both my childhood as well as stories told by father / mother of their childhoods.

    • @nickacelvn
      @nickacelvn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@lisagerman2111 well they smiled and said it's OK we are here x

  • @charleshouston3626
    @charleshouston3626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +817

    My wife and I , along with my sister in law took care of my 88 year old father when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. About a month before he passed away, they had this little dog. She was always growling looking towards the corner of his hospital bed Hospice had set up in my parents living room for him. I asked my dad, what is wrong with that dog? He said she probably senses my mom and dad. They are here waiting to take me home. I asked him how long have they been here? He said just a few days. A month later he died, After he died. Mom, she was 89 years old at the time..she said now she can go ahead and go home to Heaven as well. She said she was just waiting for dad to die so she could go . Dad died June of 2011, Mom died in September of 2011. She died suddenly. I thought I’d share my story of people seeing love ones before they die. It was really a eye opening experience when my father told me about his parents being there waiting there to take him home. I’ve heard story’s about that. They were married for over 60 years. I really miss them...it was an Honor to take care of both of my parents while they were in poor health.

    • @marcgovaerts644
      @marcgovaerts644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      so, Charles Houston, did the dog's growling end up from the moment your dad passed away ? was the dog around as well when your mum passed away and what happened then ? Thanks

    • @southerncross4956
      @southerncross4956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I am just 75 and understand what you are saying and as a friend of God I believe you are right. I have learned much in 75 years but the most important thing learned (sorry to say learned in seems the past 10 years) is I don’t know anything compared to what I could and should know by now. I have said to my Father that I want to out live my wife so she will never be alone. Father gets that, and why not, He knows. Sure I talk to God, He’s always open to conversation and ends up telling me stuff, like what you are telling me if only I would pay attention. You are a honorable, reasonable and logical man so is God, this I do know.

    • @pamelabryant7390
      @pamelabryant7390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thank you so much for sharing that story. So touching. I believe everything you said. I’m sending you a virtual hug. Take care and God bless

    • @karensommer9068
      @karensommer9068 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      God will bless you.

    • @odieyama7
      @odieyama7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My mother was Buddhist. She joined this religion after marriage and while stateside. She practiced for over 55 years this faith of hers. When she was near death, I told her that if Jesus reaches ou to her, take His hand please. The next 2 weeks until she died, she would barely look at me. I was really torn but not regretful about speaking to her of Christ. Her last few days she was mostly asleep.. What comforts me is that God spoke to her in a way I couldn't and took her home after she reached back. I had three dreams after she died which showed me, thru God that this was His work. He gives us dreams and visions to help us know He loves us.

  • @Markinfilm
    @Markinfilm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    I was there until the last breath when my mother passed. I always imagined it would be a horrible experience but I was so wrong. It was probably the most beautiful experience that I have had in my life. The circle was completed.

  • @alexilaiho8534
    @alexilaiho8534 6 ปีที่แล้ว +300

    My father just passed away today 8 hours ago and I cant sleep so here I am.

    • @FaVeritas
      @FaVeritas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Hope you are doing ok :(

    • @cscs9192
      @cscs9192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I hope you are well now!

    • @alekz2714
      @alekz2714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Much love bro

    • @rubinmendoza13
      @rubinmendoza13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      alexi laiho I hope you are doing as well as possible, now. Big hugs to you...

    • @user-dt9jr3db7d
      @user-dt9jr3db7d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God bless your father 🙏

  • @fusedart
    @fusedart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    the kind of comment section i love the most. it has lots and lots of stories and i am reading all of it. just like a short stories book. wish youtube had comments like these everywhere and not the hate ones

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 5 ปีที่แล้ว +860

    When I was sitting with my dying aunt, who was in a coma, I was the one who had the experience. I looked up and saw two people standing a little way from my aunt's bed. It took me a moment to realise that I was looking at my grandparents. I was shocked to say the least.
    Later, I spoke to my mother about what had happened. She was not surprised, and told me of others in the family who had had similar experiences. My father thought we were mad!
    When I was sitting with my mother, as she was dying, the curtains around the bed moved, in fact one of them landed on my head. There was no open window, and I couldn't explain how it had happened. Then I saw my grandparents. Most importantly, mum, although comatose, smiled, and her face showed that she was at peace. I told my father to prepare himself because I knew mum was about to leave us, which, within a couple of minutes she did.
    12 weeks later I was sat next to my father as he was seriously, but not fatally ill. He had laughed at mum and me over our "experiences", but as I held his hand, I felt him stiffen, his eyes widened, his mouth dropped. I could not see her, but I quietly asked if it was mum, and he nodded. I was the only one not surprised that he died a few hours later.
    I have had a close brush with death, being told I had only 48 hours to live. The doctors and nurses couldn't understand my calmness. I wasn't able to tell them that no one had come to me, so I knew the doctors were wrong. My parents were, as you can imagine, unhappy about the news, but mum immediately stopped worrying when I told her I'd not seen my grandparents.
    I know many will scoff. Many will think I'm mad, or worse a liar. However, I do not care. I know what I experienced, and it gives me great strength. I do not fear death, I'm not ready to go yet, but when I do, I will not be fearful.

    • @soniakiwi
      @soniakiwi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Your story is very moving and touching. ❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing it. BTW, your cat is an old and sweet soul. Please kiss and comfort her. She'll always watch over you. ❤🐱

    • @thiery572
      @thiery572 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      When you saw it, did you see it physically or on your mind's eyes?

    • @thiery572
      @thiery572 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tell your grandparents to go away, if you don't want to die.

    • @thiery572
      @thiery572 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Wyatt Earp Hiiy, I don't want to die anytime soon. Go away. No way. I don't want to die. lol

    • @MisterUrbanWorld
      @MisterUrbanWorld 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thiery572 I'm very sad maybe you can sing a happy song for me

  • @Dana-ld4wf
    @Dana-ld4wf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    My mom was not talking or interacting the last couple weeks before she died. While I was in her room at the nursing home, out of the blue she said in a very clear voice," Hi Daddy". She died a few days later and it gave me comfort knowing she could see her dad.

  • @janmorgan7435
    @janmorgan7435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    My friend had passed away, which was unknown to me. I dreamt he was standing at the end of my bed , wearing a dark suit and
    he told me he was dead . I then checked this out and sure enough he had sadly passed away and he obviously wanted me to know , by contacting me in a dream. I’m not sure how this was possible, but it was true!! There’s so much more to life than our life on earth.

  • @rachaelsheller9339
    @rachaelsheller9339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Thanksgiving 2017, we were eating dinner as a family when my Aunt Francie out of nowhere started talking about a dream she had the night before. In it, her long deceased sister Helen greeted her warmly and gave her a letter. The letter was from their long deceased mother. Francie was only a couple months old when their mother died and has no memory of her. In the letter, it talks about how her time is coming and how not to be afraid. She missed her baby and will see her soon. Three days later, she died. I don't know how to explain all of this stuff, but it's something I will never forget.

  • @Rozie_vo
    @Rozie_vo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +422

    My brother died on my first day of school after my holiday break in 2009, he appeared to me in a dream or vision and we walked around the school as we were talking since it was a boarding school. Later that day I was called in the office and told that we have a family function that I had to attend, immediately the words "Please God let it not be my brother" kept running in my head, although he was very sick I did not ever imagine loosing him. The trip took 8-9 hours by bus but the words kept playing in my mind. Normally my dad picked me from the bus stop but this time round I went home by myself, I was 18 then. I reached home and saw a picture of my brother framed, he was wearing his school uniform, I broke down and cried because , "please God let it not be my brother" was actually my brother, it took me years for my heart to be calm. 9 years later I lost my Father, I act strong but am writing this with tears in my eyes, it's really difficult to loose someone that you love. I am happy that he always told us that he loved us and he showered us with love equally. Always say I Love you, it comes with peace later in life. I hope this brings hope to someone.

    • @jenniedevereaux2696
      @jenniedevereaux2696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      So brave of you to share your story soo sorry for your losses. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏

    • @Dark.Wisdom95
      @Dark.Wisdom95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'm really sorry for your loss. It must have been so hard on you :( thank you for being brave to share your story and please always remember that someday you will definitely meet your brother and father again. This life is only a transition to another world. It is merely testing us to be better individuals. Blessings ❤

    • @alkasingh7227
      @alkasingh7227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I can feel your pain😢

    • @josephinelovsin4961
      @josephinelovsin4961 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      M

    • @rubynibs
      @rubynibs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Always say I Love you, it comes with peace later in life." The most important words I've read in a very long time. Thank you, Rozie.

  • @Rkisosondi
    @Rkisosondi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    I’m a hospice social worker. 8 out of 10 of my patients see visions of dead loved ones

    • @thelittlebluefrog
      @thelittlebluefrog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What about the other two? How are they different?

    • @factsforyou2329
      @factsforyou2329 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@thelittlebluefrogThey are maybe under strong medication that they unable to tell anyone or they are speechless during near death time.

  • @maryaswell9943
    @maryaswell9943 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    The last words my husband ever spoke were “look there’s Mum”. She had passes several years before. He never spoke again and passed a few days later. I take some comfort in thinking he is with his Mum. He was 47 when he died of cancer and I miss him every day.

  • @cathjoy9567
    @cathjoy9567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I have been scrolling reading all the stories of people's experiences with loved ones dying .❤
    My brother and I were placed in a foster home together ages 4yr & 5yr .We became very close ,like twins.
    When he was 17 yrs old ,he loved fruit picking, riding his motorbike to his destination .
    I will see you at Easter Cat were his last words to me .I remember thinking I felt like giving him a hug good bye .I didn't.
    Three days later a police man came to my door to tell me he was killed riding his motorbike.
    He turned around to help 2 people who waved to him on the side of the road .He did not see or hear the truck coming who honked his horn.
    I was devasted .I was18 yrs ,my grief was deep .It took me 10 years stop grieving .
    I wished I had hugged him .
    One night after 10 yrs after my brothers death .I had the most vivid beautiful dream. My brother gave me the biggest hug,no words spoken .I felt unconditional love .
    This helped me so much to accept his death ,spirit lives on .I view life differently now.I am extremely Positve.,not religious ,spiritual .Believe in Jesus 🙏
    My brother also came a month before I became very ill .I Felt,sense his spirit .Called out his name. A month later I was flown to a hospital with a bleed on my brain. As you can see I am ok .
    Yes !! Spirit does live on !!
    Thank you for sharing your stories ❤🙏

    • @violettheorgangrinder3232
      @violettheorgangrinder3232 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It took me around 10 years as well. My condolences on the loss of your beloved.

  • @miut7995
    @miut7995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    My shirt is soaking wet from my tears. I’m learning to not fear death but, I can’t help fearing loss. I know it’s very selfish to not want to let go even though it’s inevitable. Nothing is more important than loving relationships.

    • @laurafeher9694
      @laurafeher9694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your beautiful truthful post assures me those loving relationships will support you always

  • @beverleyhirst9380
    @beverleyhirst9380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I had covid pneumonia in December 2021 I ended up in hospital, on the first night my dad stood at the side of my bed, he was young, slim and had dark hair, he laid my hands over me and said ‘stay’ - he had died 3 years previously at aged 89. I had been a course of treatment that day and the following day I was rebirthed, every cell in my body.

  • @natalierussell7491
    @natalierussell7491 5 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    Today is my dads birthday. He died four months ago. This has brought me so much peace. Thank you 💙

    • @M_K_M_K_M_K
      @M_K_M_K_M_K 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Natalie Russell I’m sorry to hear about your loss.... But glad these stories have helped you. I have been fearing the inevitable loss of my parents for years now.... All we can do is love each other and be good to them ❤️

    • @gofigure8222
      @gofigure8222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my dad in 2010..its never easy for us who miss our family,but I believe he's at peace. Hope you find your peace and comfort.

    • @RGTomoenage11
      @RGTomoenage11 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Natalie Russell peace be with you sister...

    • @nikhilsinha4327
      @nikhilsinha4327 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This was a message from your dad on his special day. Consider this message as a gift and love to you from him. He gifted you peace...
      May the One be with you.

    • @kristinafawn1766
      @kristinafawn1766 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      💓

  • @suewilkinson5855
    @suewilkinson5855 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1396

    I worked 11 years as a hospice nurse, and some of my patients talked about the wonderful party that would be thrown for them just after dying. They were happy and excited about seeing loved ones. One lady was so extraordinarily sweet--she said her mother was coming to take her on a train trip--my patient was in her 90s--after which there was going to be a big wonderful party for her. She said "You wanna come?" I told her I couldn't come yet because I had to work, but asked her to save me a spot next to her when I do get there, so she can tell me all about her party. I'm holding her to that promise, in time!

    • @starrynight8007
      @starrynight8007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @Sue Wilkinson, AWWW, You are too kind. You took time from your very emotionally draining occupation and provided us all with a truly authentic experience. Bless ya!!

    • @niniv254ever
      @niniv254ever 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Sue Wilkinson
      A gorgeous response to that beautiful lady's invitation to the other side. What's even more beautiful is that of that party happening and waiting for you when its your time. I suspect you'll be the guest of many parties. Also my prayer. Peace🙏

    • @UFOnautMeg
      @UFOnautMeg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God bless you.

    • @redshift6743
      @redshift6743 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Joseph Marton I don't have any specific answers for you, regarding your personal life. However, the historicity of Jesus is not in doubt by the VAST amount of biblical scholars - - both theist and non-theist. Perhaps the answers you seek are out there, if you open heart and your mind. There are many brilliant Christian apologetics out there, that can help those of us that do have so many questions. Also, just reading the new testament is an awesome experience. I just found out the other day, that the apostles spoke to the Greek philosophers about Jesus. There is a lot more to Jesus & his teachings, than we are taught.
      I pray you find that which you seek.
      Josh

    • @laurelharris8519
      @laurelharris8519 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Joseph Martin, nobody really knows what will happen to you after you die. People will tell you that they know, but they're not the ones who will be doing your dying for you. Death is a personal experience. I said to my sister after my husband died, "I just wish I knew that he's okay". She said, "why not just imagine that he is in the best place possible. It can be anywhere you want". It made me realize that I can imagine anything I want. I don't have to believe. All I have to do is imagine. So, imagine whatever you want because, ultimately, that's all we have.

  • @HerbDeMars
    @HerbDeMars 5 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    I thank this great man for saving my life! A wonderful surgeon with the hands of God!

    • @redrobyn3912
      @redrobyn3912 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MorbidManMusic Well now. Aren’t you just Mr. Know It All....NOT.
      You have a BIG surprise awaiting you if you think there is no God.

  • @kmfa75
    @kmfa75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    My grandmother had a massive heart attack. She was dead for a few moments before being revived. A few weeks later when she was finally able to speak, she told us she saw her deceased parents, 1st husband & brothers, sisters, friends all sitting around a card table playing poker. They turned to her and told her they couldn't deal her in yet.

    • @johnr.8275
      @johnr.8275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      That's amazing. An unusual take on a common theme. It kind of reminds me of something Leon Wilkeson from Lynyrd Skynyrd said after the terrible plane crash. Of the survivors, he was the most gravely injured, and flatlined twice in the hospital before being revived. One of those times, he said he saw Ronnie Van Zant, and Ronnie said something like, "What are you doing here, boy? It's not your time; you have to go back", and he awoke to doctors frantically trying to revive him.

    • @lizg8055
      @lizg8055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That gave me the chills

    • @blazinbuc99
      @blazinbuc99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@johnr.8275 Wow!!!

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you not understand that there is no such thing as "dead for a few moments"?-It is also meaningless

    • @annekinkelaar6507
      @annekinkelaar6507 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s awesome!

  • @laurabarber6697
    @laurabarber6697 6 ปีที่แล้ว +362

    when my grandmother was in the hospital I would go and see her everyday. She was in a room with two beds. One day I was visiting her and she asked me why is my mother sitting on that bed? I looked over and I didn't see anything. I said she'll be with you when it's time for you to go but it's not your time yet. I continued our conversation and Grandma was lucid in every way. When I went home or conversation came to mind. And then it hit me! the message was for my grandmother yes but it was also for me. it was me that needed to get ready. I needed to get ready to release my grandmother. She died several months later on Mother's Day the day before my birthday. the week of her death I experienced a joy that I have never known before or since. the joy that comes when your heart is full and your mind is sure. I'm in tears as I share the story with you because I miss her always!

    • @Aracne80
      @Aracne80 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If she meant that much for you, she will be there when its time. The Words " I will always be with you" means more than you think ;)

    • @missyoothoudt8243
      @missyoothoudt8243 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Laura Barber I wish I could be visited by my grandpa. I miss him so much. And wish I could have known my grandma.

    • @mimilion6072
      @mimilion6072 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you for writing this. I am missing my Grandma very much, beyond words. She brought me up and we were very close. I decided to just let my finger scope fast and see where it stopped... it stopped on your message. Also you said about, you feeling Joy... her name was Joy... Thank you xxxx

    • @paularae6324
      @paularae6324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@missyoothoudt8243 you will. When its time

    • @connorduke4619
      @connorduke4619 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      you can send her a message now and she'll hear it for sure. If you want to hear her reply you can hire a reliable medium. I've talked to my deceased brother that way, it was cool.

  • @paologarrone5569
    @paologarrone5569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Goodbye dad, you passed two months ago, but you will stay in my heart and my tears forever and ever. Thanks for the video.

    • @judithniles2827
      @judithniles2827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'am so very sorry for your loss and I know your pain and anguish because I just lost my best friend, my mother on May 28th 2021. 😭😭😭

  • @TheMalfean
    @TheMalfean 4 ปีที่แล้ว +548

    My father had a 40 minute conversation with his mother. A fascinating Q&A. I was standing outside the room, thinking it was having a conversation with a neighbor (double room occupancy). When I walked in and noticed he was the only one there and asked him who'd he'd been talking to and he replied 'your grandmother stopped by to catch up'. I inquired various questions to be sure he's not delirious and when satisfied I thought I'd ask one last thing. I asked him: You were a PhD, Veteran, and a retired Nuclear Physicist... how could grandma talk to you when she's been gone since 1988? His reply: Well that certainly didn't stop her from paying me a visit!

    • @SerenaHe-z3k
      @SerenaHe-z3k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      wow, fascinating. You dad was funny. I'm sure he is at a good place.

    • @jeankim7578
      @jeankim7578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Thanks for sharing this. I am looking forward to meeting my parents again!

    • @eyespy0070
      @eyespy0070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      40 minutes? Incredible! What a gift!

    • @javiercortez6086
      @javiercortez6086 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      T CD dry do

    • @javiercortez6086
      @javiercortez6086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eyespy0070 bd by tvdyfvhvfg F duvbv

  • @AuthorCAL
    @AuthorCAL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    Powerful, thank you!!! This brought me such comfort. I lost my husband in August, and he was in ICU dying for days and I was unable to be there with him at the end because of Covid. This talk brought me peace.

    • @debbieporter8610
      @debbieporter8610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      On my I Am So Very Sorry For Your Loss Sending You Huge
      (((((((((HUGS))))))

    • @lisavan504
      @lisavan504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I am so sorry you lost your husband and to covid and the cruel separation it demands. I’m so happy to read that you were given comfort on this wonderful post. Bless you. Catherine. I will be praying for you. 💜

    • @NurseSnow2U
      @NurseSnow2U 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh honey, this breaks my heart and I too can unfortunately say it is a gnawing, aching void that I wouldn’t wish on even the worst humanity had to offer. I lost my fiancé, the love of my life and my dearest friend on April 8th, 2020. He was only 43. I graduated from nursing school one month later, grateful that there was no commencement as I couldn’t cope with the thought that he would not and COULD NOT be here with me to celebrate one of the greatest accomplishments of my life. Almost 2 entire YEARS out I thought I was doing better, I met someone who is a beautiful but tormented soul. I’ve learned so much, I’ve gained so much clarity and purpose, I started a charity in honor of his unconditional love that helps children that have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID. I am the one with the chronic illness, the one that has been so close to “the other side” including one experience where I fully crossed over and was given a choice in relinquishing myself from the physical pain I’m in every single day (sickle cell anemia)….I NEVER would’ve imagined my dear Sam would be the one to leave me first. As a very spiritually inclined woman I know in the depths of my soul that physical death cannot separate us from love. Love is energy and it never dies….but it doesn’t always soothe the fracture in my soul that was created when he transitioned. It was the beginning of the pandemic, there were no FaceTime calls, I couldn’t be at his bedside to pray over him or to beg and plead with the universe that may just maybe if he could hear my voice he’d pull through. About midway through his 3 weeks on the ventilator I could FEEL that his astral body had ascended. All of the parts of him that made him the greatest love I’ve ever known were now free from a body ravaged by an unseen enemy. I often stay up for days wondering what his last moments were like, was he aware? Was he afraid? What would he have told me even if only with his eyes if I would’ve been able to appreciate his physicality one last time. There were no options for funerals or memorials or ANY of the standard grieving processes we a lot for ourselves. I am so sorry that you too know the often times unbearable pain of trying to move in a world that wants to “get back to normal” as you scream and rage at the void because there will never be a sense of normalcy for you without your partner by your side. If you ever need an ear, PLEASE feel free to reach out. Our darling husbands live on through the love they’ve bestowed upon us. All in all, life is a temporal experience for us ALL and I am just so grateful, even in those moments where it feels my grief will CONSUME me and I’ve contemplated submitting to it…I am reminded of how blessed I am to have experienced pure unadulterated LOVE in a world where that is almost non existent. Send you so much love and healing energy. -Kryss, almost wife of Samuel Wade 💔 🕊

    • @fayaiibuilds
      @fayaiibuilds 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm so sorry you lost your husband. My mom lost her husband my father July 22,2022 this yr to covid. We feel your pain. God bless you. 🙏

    • @alexsimonelis164
      @alexsimonelis164 ปีที่แล้ว

      God bless you all!

  • @Pschychotically
    @Pschychotically 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    "In our culture, the richest and most thoughtful discussions have always come from the humanities and never medicine, but from poets, playwrights, and philosophers." ~ Dr. Christopher Kerr, 2015

    • @tammymcleod4504
      @tammymcleod4504 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I loved that line...and it's the absolute truth. Except when it comes to Dr Jordan B Peterson. He's amazing.

  • @karenmcardle142
    @karenmcardle142 5 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    The hour before my husband passed away due to cancer , we laughed so much for the first time since he had been diagnosed . He did say that they were all here with outstretched arms . The peace in his face gives me comfort even though it broke my heart losing him, after 30 years together, it was comforting knowing he was never alone .
    R. I..P bbz ❤🙏

  • @somethingredblue9235
    @somethingredblue9235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    My few family members and pet passed away this year. I was alone in my apartment unable to reach them. Had to bury my pet alone all by myself. This talk saved my heart. Thank you I really needed to hear this.
    1year edit: in last one year I have received so much love and unconditional support here and from universe. I couldn’t be more thankful. Thank you everyone for sending well wishes my way over the year. I hope life and love are seeing you all through too. During the passing beautiful and enduring times❤️.

    • @lealippard1045
      @lealippard1045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      All the best to you!

    • @yomkapringu7121
      @yomkapringu7121 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      :

    • @yomkapringu7121
      @yomkapringu7121 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      5 p to r r r.

    • @masvas1
      @masvas1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It's my wish to see my beloved dog Santos someday. He passed on. We shared supernatural experiences while he was alive. I believe after he passed, 2 years later he came to me in a dream. He let me hug him and hold him for the longest time. I believe he knows we still grieve and miss him with all our hearts.

    • @somethingredblue9235
      @somethingredblue9235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Whenever I feel lonely I come back to this post. Seeing you share your experience makes me feel less alone. Mine was only a hamster but I can’t explain how much I loved her. Sometimes I cry when I’m vulnerable. This post makes me comforted.

  • @maryheany1067
    @maryheany1067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    I regret when I hear excellent talks such as this one that Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is not mentioned . She was the first to begin talking to dying patients about their deaths and document it's value. She almost lost her hospital privileges because at the time it was very offensive to tell people that they were at the end of life, denying them the experiences mentioned by Dr Kerr. She helped establish the hospice care system in this country.

    • @pointsettaqueen
      @pointsettaqueen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I read her book right after my father died. He dropped dead at work and it always bothered me that none of us were there, and he died alone. After reading her book, I knew that my dad was not alone. His dad was there to be with him. Daddy told me that if he could send me a signal, after passing, he would. I won't go into details, but three times he has sent signals to me. The last one was so powerful, I've never doubted again. There is something after this life.

    • @alro7779
      @alro7779 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pointsettaqueen Of course, after this life there's another one, way too much better than here.

    • @jasminejones9937
      @jasminejones9937 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yes Dr Kubler-ross was a great woman she was the first one and way ahead of her time ⌚

    • @pakababy3710
      @pakababy3710 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm reading her book On Death and Dying right now.

    • @cathieferro9028
      @cathieferro9028 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I had the privilege if hearing her speak for over 2 hours on stage when she was 80. No notes, no chair. She was such a spectacular woman.

  • @herbalcreations7941
    @herbalcreations7941 6 ปีที่แล้ว +629

    I'm a hospice nurse and everything he says is accurate. I wish more people knew this but our culture fears death so no one wants to talk about it

    • @riverratrvr9225
      @riverratrvr9225 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I too was a hospice aide. This is so true. God Bless

    • @rushpatriot2866
      @rushpatriot2866 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Or they shrug it off because they cant use science to explain it and if you have evidence which is experiences to back up what you say you are just label as insane. They fear the unknown and are to egotistical to think different.

    • @lisettecallis5329
      @lisettecallis5329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      so tru. no one wants to listen, they call you morbid..Im not morbid at all.

    • @kevinadamson7571
      @kevinadamson7571 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I have smelled my mothers perfume when ive been down.

    • @lisettecallis5329
      @lisettecallis5329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kevinadamson7571 that's great. I semlled my mum's in a dream. I smelled my dad's drum the past couple of days.

  • @kreshia777
    @kreshia777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    As a hospice nurse as well as from personal experience - i know what is shared here is true

    • @maryannhope8276
      @maryannhope8276 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thank you for being a hospice nurse. Known some great ones. 💜

  • @Kelly-hh7jz
    @Kelly-hh7jz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1160

    A few days before my grandmother died she put on her makeup and did her hair because she was "waiting on a (deceased) friend to pick her up and take her on a fabulous dinner date"

    • @sherpatrailers150
      @sherpatrailers150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Man, just wait til she tells you all about it!

    • @jude1143
      @jude1143 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      how wonderful .

    • @forreal245
      @forreal245 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Something similar happened to a very religious man I know just recently. He was totally coherent & told others he "knew" there was a "feast" waiting for him in heaven & c/not wait to meet Jesus. He died peacefully the following day.

    • @karencarney7595
      @karencarney7595 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      That's the most beautiful thing I've heard I think ever not. I'm sure your grandmother was absolutely gorgeous and not just physically but in spirit you're very lucky to have such a loved one with such tenacity and determination

    • @Ballard206Journal
      @Ballard206Journal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      We don't die

  • @jamesshaffer7005
    @jamesshaffer7005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    My grandmother died almost two months ago. I never heard her talk much of her own grandmother until the day she passed away. She saw her grandmother and would try to hug her. These stories are real, these things happen. Much love to all who have been through or are going through similar things.

  • @dianeusher8334
    @dianeusher8334 5 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    I hope to see my little girl and dad who passed three years apart. It's been 28 long years. Thank you for this Ted Talk. It was wonderful 🙏

    • @latoshaadams5543
      @latoshaadams5543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I don't know you but I'm sending you hug vibes and to tell you that you will.

    • @kittybitts567
      @kittybitts567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hugs ((((((((((((((((((((

    • @road2apples
      @road2apples 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ♥✞♥Through the prophet he said, “I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting” (Isa. 50:6 )
      [Isaiah was written 700-750 years prior to the birth of Christ. Psalms was written about 1020 years prior to Jesus' birth. Since Jesus died in A.D. 30 or 33, the prophecies concerning his death were between 800 and 1050 years old when they were fulfilled.]
      Pray without ceasing… -1 Thessalonians 5:17♥✞♥✞♥

  • @TheAcceleratorMagazine
    @TheAcceleratorMagazine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1744

    I did the near death experience thing in 1978 after a terrible car crash but I would like to share someone else's story. In the 90's I was working on an ambulance and the call was a CPR in progress at a church fellowship hall right across from a fire hall. An elderly gentleman was leaving and fell over right inside the doorway. Firemen ran across the street and started effective CPR within a few minutes of the "witnessed" event. A witnessed arrest is just that. Someone saw the person collapse so we know exactly how long they been without oxygen and blood flow. The secret to saving lives is basically the ABC's: Airway, making sure you have a clear airway. Breathing, necessary for life and Circulation, oxygenated blood moving thru the body. CPR is only "effective" if you are able to provide all three things. If your compressions are correct but you are only circulating blood without oxygen you are accomplishing nothing. By same token if you have oxygenated blood but incorrectly doing compressions then the blood doesn't circulate. So on this call I'm thinkin we might have a chance. As you arrive on scene you do an "overview" no matter what the call. As we enter I see the firemen working on an elderly male. His shirt is open and I can see the scars indicating previous open heart surgery. You not supposed to make judgement calls but my first thot was that we were wasting time and energy. This was extremely unusual for me. My partner and I had had 10 (correction. Only 8) CPR "saves" in a 12 month period. Some medics never have a true save. My medic was the best we had at getting a patient intubated, inserting the breathing tube, and as an Advanced EMT I did skills EMTs were not supposed to do, by law. I had told the chief, my friend from childhood, to not teach me lifesaving skills and then tell me i couldn't use them. So my partner and i had a rhythm on CPR. EMTs are not even permitted to hook the patient up to the heart monitor, at least in Tennessee in the 90s, or give any drugs except Epinephrine for anaphylactic shock or Narcan for opiate overdose. So while he was getting patient intubated and IV started I was doin all the other things like the monitor, loading drugs in syringes we would need. Neway, the gentleman was in complete flat line. But we got a heart rhythm back on the way to hospital with me driving. A fireman rode to ER with us.....bout impossible for one person to do effective CPR. So we got to the ER and helped there for a bit but got another call and had to leave. A couple hours later we went back by the ER to see how the gentleman was doing. He was sitting up eating ice cream. I told him I had went thru similar experience and asked him what he felt or could remember while he was flat lined, or basically dead. He said he didn't feel anything. Didn't feel sick or dizzy. Had no idea it had happened. He said in his mind he walked out to his old van, drove home, got out and went in and said, "I bent down to feed my little dogs and next thing I knew I was here with these bright lights and all these people with masks on. I had no idea why I was here or how I got here". In his mind there was no interruption in his life. So if we hadn't have gotten him back would he have went on with his life as he knew it but on some other plain or level? My experience was totally unlike his but my injuries were so terrible I was given up as dying to the point my shattered pelvis was not operated on. I had many other injuries but other than stabilizing me, sewing up my many lacerations including reattaching my torn scalp, they put me in a room and gave me drugs so I could die comfortable. A month later was told I would never walk. My worry over the years, wife sez is ridiculous, is that I stayed dead in that reality but awoke in this one. That in another reality she went on without me with a totally different life and I went on in this one. Yeah, I know, but after talking to that gentleman and others we were able to get back, all with a different story, I'm not sure about anything EXCEPT the final act of dying is painless. It's the living that is painful. In my life of police officer, medic, military contractor I've been present at hundreds of deaths and seen hundreds more dead. Seen people survive unbelievable trauma and yet some died from very minor injuries. I cant remember all we saved but remember bout everyone we cudnt. Then there's my other side as the person trained to take lives. PTSD is my constant companion. Doubt if this gets read but I wish a safe life to all ya'll. Sorry for long post. And have hundreds of stories. Guess they will die with me. Probly for the best . rick, 2019.

    • @M_K_M_K_M_K
      @M_K_M_K_M_K 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Accelerator Magazine Hey Rick, thank you for his story.... Also, thank you for helping your fellow humans out there..... You make the world a better place ❤️

    • @winterdreams1066
      @winterdreams1066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Accelerator Magazine ty sincerely for your service...ALL of it. God bless you. liked your atory & hope you overcome ptsd!

    • @TheAcceleratorMagazine
      @TheAcceleratorMagazine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      @@winterdreams1066 ........Thanks for the above two comments. And for takin the time to read my story. Made my eyes leak. Nah, probly allergies. Wish I could share more. Maybe I can tell some in videos. I still have my skills, weapons and medic, but have trouble texting or doin this. Takes 4ever. Thumb wont do what brain sez. Lotta corrections. Stay safe and if ya get the chance to safely help someone, pay it forward. Don't think I'll ever break even on good vs. bad things I've done. Even if bad supposedly done for right reasons it's still bad. L8r

    • @jimnewman3569
      @jimnewman3569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Accelerator Magazine

    • @lesliesedberry3778
      @lesliesedberry3778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      God I would love to talk with you. Linda Sedberry on FB

  • @larkhughes9740
    @larkhughes9740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Working in hospice, the experience have changed my perspective in all areas of my life. I've garnered humility, broadened my spirituality and taught me never to diminish whatever the patient sees, hears, smells and feels.
    It's subjective. It is what they say it is. After 34 years on hospice, I'm humbled and privileged.

  • @livingauthenticallyonmyownterm
    @livingauthenticallyonmyownterm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Amazing !!! I was an RN and relate to everything Dr. Kerr has said. Death is nothing to be afraid of as our dead ancestors, friends and people who have made an impact on our life, come and take us home.

    • @youtube.comJ-NETERER18
      @youtube.comJ-NETERER18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's the peace about that

    • @stephenberry1205
      @stephenberry1205 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just lost a close friend. Funeral today.
      Also 1 year anniversary this week of my mum passing.
      This video and your words are of amazing comfort & peace.

  • @jenjim1999
    @jenjim1999 6 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    I had a family friend tell me this story... her sister's kids were in bed, asleep when all of a sudden they awoke giggling and laughing. Their mother went to to their room and told them to quiet down. When she asked the kids why they were suddenly awake and why were they laughing. They said "Grandma is tickling our feet" . Their mom told them Grandma was at home and certainly not tickling their feet and to go back to sleep. Not even 10 mins. later the mom got a call to say that her mom (the kid's Grandma) had a massive heart attack minutes earlier and could not be revived.

    • @ZorlacSkater
      @ZorlacSkater 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      wow, is this really true?

    • @essen00cat
      @essen00cat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Of course it's not true

    • @faithfullfertility2090
      @faithfullfertility2090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice story

    • @fredtello
      @fredtello 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@essen00cat When we were kids my sister woke up with a dream that our grandpa came to her .... we got a call he passed of a heart attack an hour later,,... just saying...

    • @essen00cat
      @essen00cat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fredtello Just joking,I've had similar experiences,especially in the period when a loved one dies right up to before the funeral.Say for roughly a week,by getting strange vivid dreams with the loved one being in it.

  • @cindysheldon849
    @cindysheldon849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    I was in a really bad car accident. While I was in the helicopter I started to die. I was bleeding to death. I spoke to god and told him I was too physically hurt to fight and asked him to take it from me that I would live or die by his will. A bright silver light surrounded me and I felt at peace and wasnt afraid. I made it to the hospital. I had a ruptured spleen, major blood loss that caused a massive heart attack. Lung damage, both legs were broken. My left femur came out of my leg and i lost a little bit of it. I had to have multiple surgeries and a trach. I was in the hospital for almost 7 months. 2 months of that was under deep sedation. I got pneumonia and came close to death 4 times. One of those times i saw both of my grandmas and a cousin who passed in a car accident just like mine. One grandmother told me that I was going to be ok and she loved me. We were standing in a field with trees surrounding us and the brightest sun and colors you have ever seen. I am home now. I am in a wheelchair and can walk some with a walker and hav a ton of scars but i am here by gods choice.

    • @joemac84
      @joemac84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wonderful story, make sure you share it with others whether personally or on TH-cam or wherever you are called

    • @gymguy63
      @gymguy63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😢

    • @brendalucier4560
      @brendalucier4560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      i would love to meet God I pray every night to please come see me am I foolish to ask him this I lost all my family I just want to go home thank u for telling your story

    • @sporter527
      @sporter527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@brendalucier4560 He loves you more than you can ever imagine

    • @brendalucier4560
      @brendalucier4560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sporter527 thanks I no he does there is way to much going on sometimes I feel so alone when u r taking care of 2 sisters that have cancer it's hard

  • @user-os3qs8fp6p
    @user-os3qs8fp6p 5 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    How comforting to hear this. As I will be facing this process soon, this just makes it easier for me to understand what is happening to me.

    • @sylvia7867
      @sylvia7867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      There is lots of information available for you - check out the IANDS website. They have the largest collection of near death experience from all over the world 💖

    • @M_K_M_K_M_K
      @M_K_M_K_M_K 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Z ! I wish you peace ❤️

    • @zennabella1676
      @zennabella1676 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@M_K_M_K_M_K YEAH, HAVE A NICE TRIP TO THE OTHER SIDE AND BE AT PEACE.

    • @rkelly6938
      @rkelly6938 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      😔

    • @ThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan
      @ThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Z !, thanks for sharing. I will be thinking of you

  • @annaclaes6769
    @annaclaes6769 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    My sister died in February of this year and she told me that she had seen our long deceased father in her dream. They were in the house where we used to live with our parents and our siblings and my father told my sister he came to take her with him. This gave her great comfort.

    • @salemkid1979
      @salemkid1979 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm very sorry to hear of your loss, but I'm glad you got that comforting message.

  • @RachlakiniAql348
    @RachlakiniAql348 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2122

    Nothing is more interesting than reading and scrolling down to the comments and then you realise you have missed the whole video 😊

    • @melissafeds1344
      @melissafeds1344 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Dynamo A i was doing the exact same thing

    • @HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear
      @HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      lol!

    • @LeonidSpartanKing
      @LeonidSpartanKing 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Jahahahaha yes the same

    • @jamierupert7563
      @jamierupert7563 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Haha I thought I was the only one that did that. Thanks for letting me know I'm not. :)

    • @sandrasames6926
      @sandrasames6926 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh, you are so right! I, too, have not seen the video! I've read books on this subject and it's fassinating.

  • @Allyoop-mu4gg
    @Allyoop-mu4gg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +431

    Its nice to see a Doctor looking past science

    • @lungshenli
      @lungshenli 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      that's not even past science. its just in an area not many have advanced in. the understanding might be just within reach

    • @stacitaylor1064
      @stacitaylor1064 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ally lycenko most do once they have experienced something not in med books...

    • @DaiBei
      @DaiBei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Pure science doesn't exist. Every scientist has presuppositions, certain convictions or axioms, what is in the way to do pure science. Science evolves the more of those limitations are left behind. It's a long process, because most if the scientists wants to keep their beliefs where their are important. Actually science should examine all the areas of life, also the areas that they don't find serious for the moment.

    • @Christopher-Lenz
      @Christopher-Lenz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @monklington everjet yes! Exactly! Laws of Thermodynamics.

    • @nickshires9537
      @nickshires9537 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Science" doesn't have a clue!

  • @laykantheealien5722
    @laykantheealien5722 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    *God Bless anyone who works with or for Hospice thank you if you read this* ❤💜🧡❤💜🧡❤💜🧡

  • @joemarshall4226
    @joemarshall4226 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My brother suffered from advanced colon cancer before he died. His life was agony. Several times in the last two weeks, my parents came to him and said they would be there to help when his time came.

  • @minky103
    @minky103 5 ปีที่แล้ว +455

    My mother 90 years old was in hospice being given less than a week to live because of an inoperable bowel obstruction. As she faded away they had a tube in her nose to remove bile from her stomach. She hadn't eaten for a week, no IV just water. As she weakened she started talking to dead relatives and holding conversations with them. She was wide awake and talking to me just seconds before and making sense.
    This went on day and night and I started to greet the visions also to make her feel better. I argued with the hospice nurses that there must be something they could do to try to unblock the intestine. I always look at things from a mechanical view point. I was staying with her overnight in the dark listening to her talk up a storm with people, family. Friends that had passed.I recorded multiple conversations and one night I noticed she would ask a question to the deceased and actually pause for the answer.
    I played it back over my headphones in the dark from an iPhone and was freaked out that during the pauses by her I could hear static like energy then silence before she spoke again. Needless to say, I jumped off the rubber cot and turned on a few lights I had goose bumps and a sense of calm at the same time. She told a nun that her dead sister showed her heaven and she could stay but she decided to stay here. The nun was really freaked out like she never heard that before, a revelation.
    I got more determined to do something for my dying mother. One night I brought in some warm Diet Coke and filled her sippy cup to the top, she drank the whole thing. I did that for three nights and on a Thursday the nurses said her intestines cleared out. One night mom pulled the nose tube out of her stomach and they decided not to reinstall it because they had to have three nurses hold her down to do it. They were still insisting her organs were shutting down and that would speed up the process.
    She had lost 25 lbs by then, and hadn't eaten for nearly three weeks. So I ordered her scrambled eggs and juice. She ate everything. That was on Mother's Day May 12th. She's been eating on her own since then it's been 67 days and no problems. She quit talking to dead relatives, and has even called me on the phone. What I took away from this experience is I'm not afraid of death and believe what I heard was actually happening. I had hoped for a glimpse of acknowledgment of her seeking a deceased relative but she spoke volumes. It especially made me feel good that her 2 cats that passed away over the years came to escort her to the door with the light behind it, but she said she was not ready to go. Mom had open heart surgery 11 years ago and cancer surgery 7 years ago with a 10% chance of survival because the doctor nicked her intestine and had to reopen her the next day and she wound up with a colostomy bag. So she recovered from that and said she just wanted to live to be 90. She recently said, maybe I should have said 100. God Bless Irma.

    • @christopherkerr7692
      @christopherkerr7692 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thats amazing!!! Thank you very much for sharing

    • @winnifredforbes8712
      @winnifredforbes8712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And God bless you. What a beautiful story!

    • @ShrimpPerr
      @ShrimpPerr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      John Kraus What an amazing story!

    • @starrymoonlitwinternight
      @starrymoonlitwinternight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I wish I could speak to you further about this. Thank you for posting your experience.

    • @beverlyhayshouston2770
      @beverlyhayshouston2770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I have heard that Coke can unclog a drain. I guess it works! It can sure clean off the corrosion on a car battery. Thanks for sharing your story. I believe!

  • @cherylmekarski1059
    @cherylmekarski1059 5 ปีที่แล้ว +748

    I am a very pragmatic person that only believes what she can see. But my sister, days before dying of cancer, in her hospice room surrounded by her chatting family, said “Be quiet! Mom is trying to talk to me!” Mom had passed away a few months earlier.

    • @ishouldbesleeping1354
      @ishouldbesleeping1354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Cheryl Mekarski oh WOW that’s SO AWESOME 😇🥰

    • @AdventureswithAmirah
      @AdventureswithAmirah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      💕

    • @danmccurry3810
      @danmccurry3810 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's like seeing what we can not and reuniting with love ones that went before.
      Thanks for sharing!

    • @nicholasonciul5770
      @nicholasonciul5770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I wasn't born for this but apparently my great grandpa died from cancer when he was 66. At the time, his father was still alive and was like 94 years old. A few months later, he got sick. I'm not 100% sure what he had but I think it may have also been cancer. One day, he told his wife that his son George came for a visit the night before. Though he was told George had been dead for six months, he kept insisting that it was really him, and he died not long after that. Apparently, he also came and visited my Grandma to let him know that he was okay in the afterlife (she's still alive and that was almost 40 years ago so clearly that was not an end of life hallucinatory thing)

    • @MCastle4.2
      @MCastle4.2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Quite a few of my patients seen their loved ones shortly before they passed. We knew once they seen a loved one there was not much time left.

  • @taeeun300
    @taeeun300 6 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I can’t wait to see my mom and tell her how much I missed her. It will be so wonderful..!

  • @crazydaisyog3984
    @crazydaisyog3984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Love this one!! When my Great Grandma was dying she said my G GPA was there with her, he died around 25yrs before her & they had moved to the US from Norway. My GGPA didn't have time to learn much English before he died so my GGMA was translating what we said to him in Norwegian and she was mostly only speaking Norwegian because he was with her. She was completely lucid, aware of everything and I believed her 100% when she said he was there to bring her home, she passed peacefully in her sleep 2days later. Reunited with her one & only true love, you could feel that she was at peace & so happy he was there. ❣️❣️

  • @ashleymurdick
    @ashleymurdick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    They took my brother off of life support when he was 18. I wasn’t there. I showed up 10 minutes too late... this gives me much peace thank you.

    • @rimckd825
      @rimckd825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same with my sister - died just a little before I got there. All I could do is kiss her forehead. Over 2 yrs later and I still have tears.

    • @ashleymurdick
      @ashleymurdick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rick Deegan it’s been 7 and some days I wake up still thinking he’s here. Feels like yesterday. My love is with you ❤️

    • @road2apples
      @road2apples 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ♥✞♥Through the prophet he said, “I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting” (Isa. 50:6 )
      [Isaiah was written 700-750 years prior to the birth of Christ. Psalms was written about 1020 years prior to Jesus' birth. Since Jesus died in A.D. 30 or 33, the prophecies concerning his death were between 800 and 1050 years old when they were fulfilled.]
      Pray without ceasing… -1 Thessalonians 5:17♥✞♥✞♥

    • @stevew6910
      @stevew6910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You was spared a heavy burden to bear, I was spared as well when it come to my brother, Long story but cancer sucks and thank God for Hospice nurses

  • @davidgray8191
    @davidgray8191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    The afternoon before the morning of my fathers death (3/12/1987, 0400). He sat up in bed, pointed to the corner of the room, and said. "There's my beautiful wife waitting for me."
    Mon had pre deceased Pop by five years.

    • @silvergirl3688
      @silvergirl3688 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      David Gray Amazingly wonderful!

    • @zekebanister865
      @zekebanister865 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amen

    • @AltClev37
      @AltClev37 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      David Gray I was born 3/11/1987 I came into the world the day before your dad left the world. I’m so sorry.

    • @mikelawlor1533
      @mikelawlor1533 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beautiful

  • @WilliamHunterII
    @WilliamHunterII 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2625

    My father was a physician. He always said, "Dying's easy. It's living that's hard." On his deathbed, my sister, a member of the clergy, asked him if he was scared. He replied, "No. I'm curious." ¶ Some years before his death, perhaps a decade, I proposed a pact with my father. I said to him, "Dad, whichever of us dies first, probably it will be you, but it could be me, I could walk out of here today, get run over by a truck and be dead within the hour, but likely it will be you (he was thirty years older than me), let's make a pact that whoever dies first comes back and visits the other." Dad smiled, nodded affirmatively and said, "If I can." Closer to his death I reminded him of our pact. For six weeks after his death I waited with eager anticipation. Nothing. I shrugged it off and thought 'so much for that.' Then, the next Sunday, I decided to lie down and take a nap after lunch. I went into a deep, one cycle (ninety minutes), sleep. When I waked up I was aware of having had a vivid dream, like none other I've ever experienced. In fact, I don't think "dream" is the right word. "Vision" is a better word to describe that experience. I was in tears on waking. My father had come to visit me. A few months later he came once more. To the reader I say, "Make of this what you like, but it seemed uniquely remarkable to me."

    • @roddyb.3106
      @roddyb.3106 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      William Hunter I have an ancestral altar that i created to ask for my parents and sister to protect me and help me make contact with the spiritual world. They have visited me in sleep visions too.

    • @iamnoone348
      @iamnoone348 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Ancestor worship is a deep part of Asian culture.

    • @lisalisa13green
      @lisalisa13green 7 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      This happened to me after my father's death. It was months later, but I laid down to take a nap. In this dream visitation state I was in a white square room. The room felt as though it were elevated. I was sittting in a chair and to my left there was a white door. The door opened and my father was there. He was positively glowing with a golden aura, he was strong and standing upright, no longer sick and disabled. He looked like he was in his early 30s. He reached his hand out toward me and as soon as I touched his hand, I received three sentences of information all at once. He didn't talk, it just instantly came to my mind when I touched his hand. "Everything is okay. You are on the right path. I will help you." All of those were sent at once, in a split-second, making perfect sense. Then I woke up gasping, my body jolted/back arched as I woke instantly. Then I started bawling. It was so powerful.

    • @lisalisa13green
      @lisalisa13green 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I told my father to visit me too, if it was possible. Looks like it is.

    • @DforDelinquent
      @DforDelinquent 7 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      "Pact", not "pack".

  • @mattheweaton1420
    @mattheweaton1420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    For years after my grandpa died, my grandma had a recurring dream where she was in the forest and could hear him calling her, but she couldn't find him. A few months before dying, she found him in the dream, and they climbed a mountain together.

    • @miapdx503
      @miapdx503 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That was beautiful 🌹

    • @factsforyou2329
      @factsforyou2329 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My mother saw her mother smiling towards her in young age look just one week before her passing.

  • @Moonlightsdreamart
    @Moonlightsdreamart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    My dad took his life about three months ago. My great grandma (my dads grandma) is 89 and has dementia. We decided not to tell her about my dads death because she would only remember it for about 10 minuets and complete forget. She told my aunt that my dad came over and talked to her, she said that he was worried about his kids and missed me and my brother. She also said that he was cold, so she invited him to sleep on the couch, but he had to sleep outside. She said all this a couple of days after his passing. I don’t think it is just a coincidence, it really means something to me. I love my dad even though he didn’t stay to see me grow up, but I think he is going to watch me grow up in a different place where he isn’t hurting:)

    • @silvergirl3688
      @silvergirl3688 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Isa Moreno I pray your life is blessed. I’m sorry for your loss. May God comfort you.

    • @silvergirl3688
      @silvergirl3688 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Isa Moreno I agree, not a coincidence. Amazing story.

    • @homebodyheaven6114
      @homebodyheaven6114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Lovely Lori Only those who have experienced such grief can understand. It’s so incredibly painful. Are you thinking of others when you slam a car door on your hand? All you can think of is escaping the pain. Fortunately we have an incredibly loving and forgiving God.

    • @therealwilfreddierkes9980
      @therealwilfreddierkes9980 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Isa Moreno I am so sorry about
      your father. I don’t
      comment much on here, however, you touched me.

    • @M_K_M_K_M_K
      @M_K_M_K_M_K 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Lovely Lori I think you don’t realize depression is an illness that can often times be fatal...

  • @tracyjohnson8183
    @tracyjohnson8183 7 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    As my grandfather was being wheeled from his hospital room to get a CT scan, he looked at my grandmother and said..."If I don't see you here, I'll see you there" He died in the CT scan.

    • @HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear
      @HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      WHAt? He died in the CAT scan?

    • @angelleighiaamy9187
      @angelleighiaamy9187 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      He knew.

    • @whychoooseausername4763
      @whychoooseausername4763 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear It happens. I had a dying patient in the ICU that we took down to the CT scan during our night shift. Thankfully he didn't go into arrest, but we had to have a discussion about what we would do in that case (ie: resuscitate as my resident wanted, or let die as my attending preferred).
      What I could do and did was hold his hand, look into his eyes and say everything is going to be ok. He lived through the night and died with his wife by his side.

    • @debarooo22
      @debarooo22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow

    • @bobinthewest8559
      @bobinthewest8559 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amy Angelleighia...
      I find it strange how some people will have no clue at all, and will pass suddenly, while in the middle of something else...
      And then others, seem to "just know" when their moment is drawing near.

  • @lt.ripley1590
    @lt.ripley1590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    These are incredibly comforting and I will always be grateful to TED for these talks. Since losing my entire family over ten years and then my partner a few months ago things like this help to keep me and others sane. So for all the people on here in the comments too, who share your stories thank you.

    • @admiralhyperspace0015
      @admiralhyperspace0015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hope you are fine.

    • @alkasingh7227
      @alkasingh7227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      More power to you.

    • @candicemirisha912
      @candicemirisha912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      God bless you

    • @loveishappiness7330
      @loveishappiness7330 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They still are loving you and when you relax that’s when you feel it most, when your happy and enjoying your life, they are sharing that with you or rather you are sharing that with them 🌸🙏🌸

    • @saraw9317
      @saraw9317 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CHECK OUT AN OLDER BOOK CALLED TALKING TO HEAVEN BY JAMES VAN PRAAGH. Full of these comforting tales.

  • @beyondblonde2237
    @beyondblonde2237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    The last thing my grandmother told me before passing away with cancer was “ why are there two angels behind you”? I was only 10 at the time I got so freaked out and left the room I’m 28 years old now And regret it. But she knows that I love her ♥️♥️♥️

  • @guadalupecasillas5056
    @guadalupecasillas5056 8 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    when my mom was dying she kept on holding her hand up and smiling so happy and nodding it was beautiful

    • @beckyhopkins1372
      @beckyhopkins1372 7 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Guadalupe Casillas my Grandfather did the same thing. His last words were "it's pretty isn't it" while looking at the wall.

    • @angelsd8771
      @angelsd8771 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      your both lucky for having these nice experiences ! beautiful!

    • @TheNobleLoyalist
      @TheNobleLoyalist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Guadalupe Casillas EXACTLY the same as my grandma

    • @robertracy6860
      @robertracy6860 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@beckyhopkins1372 yeah, death can cause lots of wild hallucinations

  • @barbarawhitfield6756
    @barbarawhitfield6756 8 ปีที่แล้ว +427

    From my own near-death experience and from my research, I am convince that death is not the Grim Reaper. It is a trip into the Light!

    • @wisdomkeeper
      @wisdomkeeper 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And in also having NDEs, the Light, the Unconditional Love, is always a part of us, never separated, though there are realms of different frequencies of this One light. We are just an aspect of this Love, remembering who we are, gaining virtues to deepen our spiritual progression. What an experience stepping in and out of these vibrational realms, experiencing the multi-dimensionalism of IT ALL.

    • @joeloughlin9220
      @joeloughlin9220 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Barbara Whitfield I sure hope so Barbara.

    • @LiesMoneyOrJesus
      @LiesMoneyOrJesus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      She's right, Joe, I almost didn't view this video and I would have to tell people about over 68 years trying to understand and not being superstitious came to the conclusion "love doesn't die." And now I view this video. What an affirmation if you're not love you are not even alive. To begin with. Hence anger and confusion so smile if you can love :-)

    • @janetwoods3751
      @janetwoods3751 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I miss my loved ones l can't wait to see them again💞💞💞

    • @joshuab2437
      @joshuab2437 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are you a Christian? If so, your journey was to light. If not, your journey is to darkness.

  • @pepelkaboy
    @pepelkaboy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    When my brother died I was do depressed I couldn't go out of my bed. A few times I had a dream about my brother taking me on the other side of the tunnel. It was beautiful, peaceful and warm. Only clear water, beautiful nature and warmth. From that day until now I never saw him in my dreams again. 6years since he is gone this month. I miss him still. ❤️

    • @glow1815
      @glow1815 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He just letting you know he's crossing over. As to why you never dream of him again.

    • @alexsimonelis164
      @alexsimonelis164 ปีที่แล้ว

      God bless you both!

  • @Cactusflower2000
    @Cactusflower2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    On February 6th, 2010 my mother passed from cancer. It was just she and I lying on her bed and she had fallen into a coma the night before and I knew she would not come back from that. Something tapped me five very distinct times on the back of my shoulder. I turned my head and nobody was there. Somebody from the other side connected to me in the flesh to comfort me. What a gift that was. She passed away just a few hours later when I had left the room just for 5 minutes.
    I miss you mommy 😥

    • @Nancy-k3r6p
      @Nancy-k3r6p 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So often I have heard people say that when their loved one passed away, they had just left the bedside for a brief time, and the person was gone when they returned. This happened with my own Mother after the family stayed in vigil with her for a long time. I am convinced that it is too hard for them to leave when they have their loved ones there. They love you so much and they want to stay for you. Finally, when they have a moment alone, they can surrender to the inevitable. Know that your Mother loved you just as much as you loved her. And just as you had the tap on your back from an unexplained presence, so your Mother is also nearby. She is comforting you and guiding you still.