It Appears That There Are 2 Unexplainable Things That Often Occur Before Patients Pass Away And This Nurse Went Viral For Sharing This
InterviewIt could be said that death is among those topics that are rarely talked about because of how sad and scary it is. And it seems that avoiding talking about death and dark experiences that come along with it makes things even worse. When people decide to stay away from finding out about certain things and keep them taboo, a lot of misconceptions and false claims take their place instead. Having this in mind, hospice nurse Julie decided to share some death-related phenomena with her followers on TikTok to educate and prepare them for what happens when their beloved ones are getting closer to passing away.
Both Julie’s videos that talk about phenomena that appear when a person is about to die have received more than 6 million views, encouraging the hospice nurse to share more information about what happens to a person towards the end of their life.
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Hospice nurse Julie became an interest of people online when she started sharing some eye-opening information about passing away
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Julie is a hospice nurse and she’s been doing this for 14 years, so the woman has gained a lot of valuable experience through the years. Having in mind how little people usually know about death and that many are actually afraid of this process, the woman decided to start sharing some information about it to make people less scared and help them break free from various stereotypes about people having to spend their last days in hospice.
In her now-viral videos, the woman revealed two phenomena that occur related to death
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The first phenomenon that nurse Julie presented was “rally.” It begins with a patient being really sick and showing signs that they are not improving before suddenly, they start to feel significantly better. They not only start to eat and walk but also start to talk, joke around, and seem to remind loved ones of their old selves. This usually continues for a day or two, and then ends with a patient dying. This isn’t some rare thing that happens only to a couple of people, so the nurse shared that she likes to warn patients’ relatives about this before this situation even happens. This sudden improvement can give this false hope to the relatives, later disappointing them with the tragic end.
The nurse explained “the rally”—a state when a person that is close to their death starts to feel better
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Another phenomenon that Julie talked about in one of her videos was of patients starting to see spirits, angels, and relatives who have already passed away. This doesn’t seem to scare them, it rather has a calming effect on them, but sometimes they do ask nurses if they can also see what they are seeing. Bored Panda contacted Julie to find out more about her work and one of the questions was related to how she responds when a patient asks her such a question. “I tell them it’s very normal, and as long as they aren’t scared of what they are seeing… go with it and enjoy!” revealed the nurse.
The woman also talked about times when her patients would start seeing spirits and their late relatives who make them feel better and more comfortable
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Despite this topic being quite sensitive and sad, Julie was happy and surprised to see that people’s interest in how death actually works made her videos viral. She also expressed a wish to “shift how our world views death, so it makes me so happy to see that people seem to want that shift too.”
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Working in the medical sector is known to require a lot of hard work, patience, and compassion. We asked Julie to share with us what is the most rewarding part of being a hospice nurse, to which she replied: “Being able to help people at a very vulnerable time. Being able to witness what relief some people get from being able to talk about their fears, their concerns, their LIFE goals while they are still here. Hospice is about LIFE—it’s about being able to manage symptoms so the patient can still experience LIFE at home with their families.”
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The woman also added some inspiring things about the industry she works in and how all these specialists are there not only there to help people in time of need but also educate and support everyone on a daily basis: “There is a whole community of hospice workers (nurses, doctors, social workers, music therapists, CNAs, death doulas… the list goes on). All of us come together on social media to raise awareness and support each other—it’s beautiful.”
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People online started sharing their stories of what their close relatives experienced at the end of their days
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Share on Facebook100% yes. all of it. when my mom was in final stages with pancreatic cancer, i flew home from Singapore (17 hours). The hospice nurse explained all of this to me and an hour after i arrived my mom rallied enough for me to know that she knew i was there with her. she couldnt speak, or move much but she definitely knew - i could tell by her facial expressions and the kissing motion she made. the next day she was gone as if she waited for me to get there before saying goodbye.
She was waiting. *sniffles* I'm sorry for your loss.
Load More Replies...People see their dead friends and relatives because they’re thinking about them a lot, and thinking they’ll join them somewhere. They believe in spirits and ghosts and ghouls and things like that, so they see them in their hallucinations and such. The mind does strange things when it’s shutting down, which probably starts weeks before the patient passes away.
Yes, but in my case, it wasn't weeks. Trauma victims see these things too, and have had zero awareness they're going to be near-death or dying. No matter what, the mind goes to loved ones, that's my theory.
Load More Replies...I'm amazed that not one person said that just maybe spirits are real. Strange things happen all the time. Maybe... just maybe... there is something after this, not just "oxygen deprivation" maybe our loved ones do come help us in our greatest time of need. Ya'll need some faith for real. I am sad about how many people on here have zero faith.
My mum had a bad accident in Belgium and I was in the Netherlands and got the call from my dad. I went to their hotel in Belgium (they were on holiday) picked up my dad and went to visit mum in hospital. She had to stay there for 2 weeks so I took my dad home with me in France (an hours drive from the Hospital in Belgium). We arrived in France and the antique comptoise clock had stopped at 5 Oclock and the kitchen clock on batteries had stopped at 5 too. I said “That’s grandma”. This s**t has happened before (lights off/on when bad stuff happened) so yes, I believe in the spirit world.
Load More Replies...I've seen the rally... I'd say in half of patients, but that's outside hospice. It's a byword. "He rallied yesterday, watch him on your shift..." Sure enough, within X time, patient gone. I rarely encountered/encounter "seeing/speaking" to the dead who've gone before. Again, howeve,r not in hospice, and hospices can give some *strong* dang drugs! My dad, terminal with pancreatic cancer, had his rally 2 weeks before died, rallied for a whole week... Then crashed. Will to continue, upbringing/religious/faith traditions also play into how people see/feel their dying, IMO. It's heartbreaking no matter what.
This is a wonderful article. Would love to see more like this here on BP.
11 months ago I was with my 93 year-old father when he passed. My older sister, a nurse, was also there. It was a great privilege to be with my dad when he took his last breath. I was scared, when I found out he was dying, because I didn't think I'd want to be there. I'm glad I was. I know this has nothing to do with the post at hand but I just had to say it. If this is in your future, don't be afraid. As my sister pointed out, it's a privilege to witness a person take their first breath, but it's an even bigger privilege to be there when a person takes their final breath.. Miss you, Dad.
I'm am so pleased that being there with him really helped. I've seen that with so many family. Thank you for saying this. I was not there for either of my parents because they maintained neither wanted us there to see them take their last breath. That was honored. But with my mom, I got the call about not making it through the night. She was in a step down unit where from her bedside you could hear staff on the phone. Mom was "out of it". The nurse asked me how long it would take me to get there & said "see you then". When I got there, mom was gone. The nurse told me she was with my mom when I called. Didn't look like it would be for a number of hours yet. She could hear my mom's breathing from the desk. When she hung up she couldn't hear her breathing. She was gone. Geez mom! Couldn't you have stayed long enough for me to get here? I was mad at her. Then I remembered. I was not to be there for her last breath. She heard I was coming. She made sure I wasn't. I'm at peace with it.
Load More Replies...My father passed away from end stages renal failure the morning after my mother's memorial service (she passed away from an acute GI bleed). He had been on hospice and had been receiving dialysis for longer than doctors expected him to. That last day seemed to be his most present and happiest in a long time. He was joking, smiling, actually remembering things rather than being in a medication and 'bad blood' haze. Looking back, it was a bitter sweet time to see him smiling but feeling that something was happening.
It's sad, yet interesting how the rallying, as described here, is pretty similar to many cases of suicide as well. Maybe there's a biological connection here too?
You see that in suicide because they've made their decision. Having done that it's almost like a relief for them. No more living in torment. Soon they will be at peace. I know how that sounds, but people who didn't succeed do very often say that.
Load More Replies...People are so afraid to admit there are things they just can't explain. So they'd rather deny it and lie to themselves. But the fact is there are things that no one can explain and I'm smart enough to know that anything is possible.
I had a dream the night before my grandpa passed where I was with him in his room at the nursing home and he was telling me that he wanted to wait for me before he left and was very upset that he couldn’t. I held his hand and said that it was okay, I’d see him when I got there and he could go. The next morning I got a call to tell me he’d passed away, saying that he wanted to go home. I told my mother that I knew already because I’d seen him in a dream. When it came time for the funeral I made sure to view him one last time to let him know I was there. I helped carry him out and gave the coffin a kiss before he was taken to his final resting place.
just because it's something you can't explain, doesn't mean it's unexplainable. And it also doesn't mean you ust get to insert whatever you think sounds or feels good in as an explanation for a place holder.
May as well use whatever sounds or feels good as a placeholder
Load More Replies...As an Anthropologist, I find it really interesting and kind of amazing that this is universal. It's not an American thing or Asian thing or a certain religion but it seems to be all around the world. Really a curious thing.
When my grandma was in her final days she said she saw her brother and sister coming to help her. This gives me peace as it seems we will get to see our loved ones again.
My friend who was like a grandma to me had both of these phenomena happening. Her health was getting worse very fast and her relatives didn't want me to visit her so I feared she might forget me. I was not there during the rallying, but I was told later that she said she doesn't want me to visit her so I can remember her as she'd been in the past. The next day she died. It made me so happy to know she still remembered me in the very end and that she passed after a day of happiness.
This is so cool. I wonder if I will see my daughter when I pass away some day. And if so, then will she be a baby, a little girl or a grown woman? I can't imagine her as a woman, but somehow not as a baby either (she died shortly before due date), do I think I will imagine a little girl. ..... has anyone of you seen "What Dreams May Come" or read the book? I love it and like the idea of such an afterlife.
Sorry, seeing things is the brain shutting down and hallucinating. Perhaps some "rally", my husband sure didn't, he started hallucinating so hospital gave him haloperidol (against end of life instructions) until I found out and stopped it, then he just shut down bit by bit.
My grandparents had 24 hour nurses because my grandfather was frail and my grandmother had Alzheimer's. One weekend, they got a new nurse that sat with my Grandfather while he talked all about his childhood and his life, something he never did with the rest of the family. The next day, he had a heart attack and passed away. When my father died after a long battle with Alzheimer's, he lay in bed sleeping, then suddenly woke up and started saying "Momma? Is that you? Momma?" And he slipped away. Not something we can explain, but glad he saw his mom and wasn't scared in the end.
When my dad was passing he started talking to his grandson he'd lost some 20 years before. About a month later, my dad's cousin (who was close to passing) commented on my dad having visited her, but he was young and handsome again. She hadn't been informed that he had passed.
There's a series about death on Netflix, I can't remember the name. But in one if the episodes they discuss the whole phenomenon of people seeing dead relatives, friends, even pets shortly before they pass away themselves. I find it really fascinating. I've never heard of rallying but it must be heartbreaking to think that your loved one is improving, and then they pass away.
It's called "terminal lucidity", and it's a real phenomenon that happens to many many people. There are just a couple doctors out there that have are working on understanding this more and are actively studying patients. If anyone is interested, there are a couple interviews by a doctor studying this I could link
There is a third phenomenon. Many will not die as long as a loved one is at the bedside. It's like the loved one is holding on to their spirit. Many many people have died when their loved ones step away from the bed for a minute. 35 year nurse veteran
My cat had a rally two days before she passed away. I had scheduled her final appointment for later in the week, since she was declining but comfortable. Then two days before her appointment, she suddenly seemed better. She was her old self again. It made me question my decision. I kept the appointment, but I really doubted myself. About an hour before her appointment, she started to decline and was clearly uncomfortable. I'm so grateful that I made her appointment when I did because it was between the Tuesday and Thursday, and I picked Thursday. Tuesday was such a good day, I would have always questioned myself. Instead, I got a great extra day with her. I just wish the vet hadn't been running late coming to my house, because then she would have passed before the discomfort set in. At least I knew though, for certain, it was the right time.
I lost two very close family people suddenly in a month no warning. For a time after, at night lying in bed I kept hearing what seemed like people outside but like I was hearing a badly tuned radio. It made no sense and looking outside once saw no one. It was only when I talked with a friend who explained it was a spiritual experience that can happen when people are exposed to death. I was a bit dismissive but he showed me in a spiritual book he had some pages describing exactly what I had experienced.
my mum was dying of cancer,she had not gone out for months, was always in bed.then one day she took us to the nearby furniture shop to buy our new bedroom. l genuinely thought she was going to heal. she died the next month
I'll be calling my childhood Irish Setter. She was my buddy and partner in crime, and a real cutie.
My great-grandfather (age 89) was written off as a nut case when he started accusing his housekeeper of entertaining a boyfriend. Soon after, he passed away. Years later, I found out that the housekeeper's father had committed suicide when she was a teenager; great-grandfather was seeing this man attempting to apologize to his daughter for abandoning her.
Hunh. When my mother died of pancreatic cancer 16 1/2 years ago, she first went into a coma 54 hours prior to her death. There was no vision of "angels," nor of seeing Dad, who had died 13 days before she did. There were no visions of their dead pets, nor of either of their family members who had died before them. I worked in a large hospital, ICU, for the last 18 years prior to retirement. Sat with many dying patients, and never once saw or heard any of this stuff. I don't believe in ny of the gobbledy-gook of "angels," or seeing dead people, so that's probably why I've never witnessed anyone else doing it....nothing's going to happen when a nonbeliever is present. Not about to change my mind, either.
All the women in our family were with my step-dad when he passed (me, half sister - his daughter, our mom, his sister, and her daughter). At one point he looks at his sister and asks "what's she doing here". Aunt asks who and he says 'Mom". Aunt then tells him to 'tell that bitch to go away". That's when I accepted he was not going to pull through this. None of us left for anything until he passed.
Recommended reading: Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley.
I have experience the deaths of hundreds of patients when i was in the medical field, I always remember the rally experience because we had patients that have been bed bound for weeks without eating or even drinking sometimes (mostly unresponsive) when out of nowhere you would come to work a shift and find them up, well dressed, with the bed made talking and eating a meal. For some of the family members (it was a miracle) but we all knew that probably that night they would pass. Also i had lots of experiences with dying patients always talking about how there were many people standing around the beds or seeing a persistent light in the room (they would tell us to please turn off the blinding light).
Yeah. Does that only happen in the US, where the majority have a belief, or also in European countries, where the majority of people don't?
I'm in the US and I have no spiritual beliefs because my science-inclined mind tells me there's no proof so it's not real ...but working in the medical field for over 20 years has shown me there are things we simply cannot explain or prove with "quantifiable" data.
Load More Replies...The rally must of been what my dog went through before he passed. He was about 3 months old and he got into something he wasn't supposed too. The last few days before he passed he was up and eating and acting almost normal. It gave us hope but now I know that it is something that happens sometimes. He passed from kidney failure from said thing he got into in August of this year. I miss him dearly and this is kind off comforting in the sense that I might see him when I die. (Great now I'm crying)
Do animals have a spiritual presence also? Three days after our dog died I walked into the bedroom late one night and piled in the exact spot where he slept at night was a pile of blankets in roughly the size, shape and color of him. Scared the crap out of me but I am coming to think that he was saying good bye in his own way.
I don't know about the "seeing dead loves ones" part, but I can attest that the "rally" phenomenon is true. The same thing happened with my grandma and my cousin. Not with my uncle though; he gradually got worse and worse. As pragmatic as I am, I like to think that the rally phase is for "put things in order", you know, saying goodbye to your loved ones, making arrangements, leaving good memories of you...
Yep, nothing new. These two phenomenons have been known for a really long time.
We're not pushovers for New Age nonsense. We have experience and have witnessed things you have no idea about. When you've worked 38 years in nursing and been with countless patients and families going through this, get back to me. Then I'll believe you've seen enough to know.
Load More Replies...100% yes. all of it. when my mom was in final stages with pancreatic cancer, i flew home from Singapore (17 hours). The hospice nurse explained all of this to me and an hour after i arrived my mom rallied enough for me to know that she knew i was there with her. she couldnt speak, or move much but she definitely knew - i could tell by her facial expressions and the kissing motion she made. the next day she was gone as if she waited for me to get there before saying goodbye.
She was waiting. *sniffles* I'm sorry for your loss.
Load More Replies...People see their dead friends and relatives because they’re thinking about them a lot, and thinking they’ll join them somewhere. They believe in spirits and ghosts and ghouls and things like that, so they see them in their hallucinations and such. The mind does strange things when it’s shutting down, which probably starts weeks before the patient passes away.
Yes, but in my case, it wasn't weeks. Trauma victims see these things too, and have had zero awareness they're going to be near-death or dying. No matter what, the mind goes to loved ones, that's my theory.
Load More Replies...I'm amazed that not one person said that just maybe spirits are real. Strange things happen all the time. Maybe... just maybe... there is something after this, not just "oxygen deprivation" maybe our loved ones do come help us in our greatest time of need. Ya'll need some faith for real. I am sad about how many people on here have zero faith.
My mum had a bad accident in Belgium and I was in the Netherlands and got the call from my dad. I went to their hotel in Belgium (they were on holiday) picked up my dad and went to visit mum in hospital. She had to stay there for 2 weeks so I took my dad home with me in France (an hours drive from the Hospital in Belgium). We arrived in France and the antique comptoise clock had stopped at 5 Oclock and the kitchen clock on batteries had stopped at 5 too. I said “That’s grandma”. This s**t has happened before (lights off/on when bad stuff happened) so yes, I believe in the spirit world.
Load More Replies...I've seen the rally... I'd say in half of patients, but that's outside hospice. It's a byword. "He rallied yesterday, watch him on your shift..." Sure enough, within X time, patient gone. I rarely encountered/encounter "seeing/speaking" to the dead who've gone before. Again, howeve,r not in hospice, and hospices can give some *strong* dang drugs! My dad, terminal with pancreatic cancer, had his rally 2 weeks before died, rallied for a whole week... Then crashed. Will to continue, upbringing/religious/faith traditions also play into how people see/feel their dying, IMO. It's heartbreaking no matter what.
This is a wonderful article. Would love to see more like this here on BP.
11 months ago I was with my 93 year-old father when he passed. My older sister, a nurse, was also there. It was a great privilege to be with my dad when he took his last breath. I was scared, when I found out he was dying, because I didn't think I'd want to be there. I'm glad I was. I know this has nothing to do with the post at hand but I just had to say it. If this is in your future, don't be afraid. As my sister pointed out, it's a privilege to witness a person take their first breath, but it's an even bigger privilege to be there when a person takes their final breath.. Miss you, Dad.
I'm am so pleased that being there with him really helped. I've seen that with so many family. Thank you for saying this. I was not there for either of my parents because they maintained neither wanted us there to see them take their last breath. That was honored. But with my mom, I got the call about not making it through the night. She was in a step down unit where from her bedside you could hear staff on the phone. Mom was "out of it". The nurse asked me how long it would take me to get there & said "see you then". When I got there, mom was gone. The nurse told me she was with my mom when I called. Didn't look like it would be for a number of hours yet. She could hear my mom's breathing from the desk. When she hung up she couldn't hear her breathing. She was gone. Geez mom! Couldn't you have stayed long enough for me to get here? I was mad at her. Then I remembered. I was not to be there for her last breath. She heard I was coming. She made sure I wasn't. I'm at peace with it.
Load More Replies...My father passed away from end stages renal failure the morning after my mother's memorial service (she passed away from an acute GI bleed). He had been on hospice and had been receiving dialysis for longer than doctors expected him to. That last day seemed to be his most present and happiest in a long time. He was joking, smiling, actually remembering things rather than being in a medication and 'bad blood' haze. Looking back, it was a bitter sweet time to see him smiling but feeling that something was happening.
It's sad, yet interesting how the rallying, as described here, is pretty similar to many cases of suicide as well. Maybe there's a biological connection here too?
You see that in suicide because they've made their decision. Having done that it's almost like a relief for them. No more living in torment. Soon they will be at peace. I know how that sounds, but people who didn't succeed do very often say that.
Load More Replies...People are so afraid to admit there are things they just can't explain. So they'd rather deny it and lie to themselves. But the fact is there are things that no one can explain and I'm smart enough to know that anything is possible.
I had a dream the night before my grandpa passed where I was with him in his room at the nursing home and he was telling me that he wanted to wait for me before he left and was very upset that he couldn’t. I held his hand and said that it was okay, I’d see him when I got there and he could go. The next morning I got a call to tell me he’d passed away, saying that he wanted to go home. I told my mother that I knew already because I’d seen him in a dream. When it came time for the funeral I made sure to view him one last time to let him know I was there. I helped carry him out and gave the coffin a kiss before he was taken to his final resting place.
just because it's something you can't explain, doesn't mean it's unexplainable. And it also doesn't mean you ust get to insert whatever you think sounds or feels good in as an explanation for a place holder.
May as well use whatever sounds or feels good as a placeholder
Load More Replies...As an Anthropologist, I find it really interesting and kind of amazing that this is universal. It's not an American thing or Asian thing or a certain religion but it seems to be all around the world. Really a curious thing.
When my grandma was in her final days she said she saw her brother and sister coming to help her. This gives me peace as it seems we will get to see our loved ones again.
My friend who was like a grandma to me had both of these phenomena happening. Her health was getting worse very fast and her relatives didn't want me to visit her so I feared she might forget me. I was not there during the rallying, but I was told later that she said she doesn't want me to visit her so I can remember her as she'd been in the past. The next day she died. It made me so happy to know she still remembered me in the very end and that she passed after a day of happiness.
This is so cool. I wonder if I will see my daughter when I pass away some day. And if so, then will she be a baby, a little girl or a grown woman? I can't imagine her as a woman, but somehow not as a baby either (she died shortly before due date), do I think I will imagine a little girl. ..... has anyone of you seen "What Dreams May Come" or read the book? I love it and like the idea of such an afterlife.
Sorry, seeing things is the brain shutting down and hallucinating. Perhaps some "rally", my husband sure didn't, he started hallucinating so hospital gave him haloperidol (against end of life instructions) until I found out and stopped it, then he just shut down bit by bit.
My grandparents had 24 hour nurses because my grandfather was frail and my grandmother had Alzheimer's. One weekend, they got a new nurse that sat with my Grandfather while he talked all about his childhood and his life, something he never did with the rest of the family. The next day, he had a heart attack and passed away. When my father died after a long battle with Alzheimer's, he lay in bed sleeping, then suddenly woke up and started saying "Momma? Is that you? Momma?" And he slipped away. Not something we can explain, but glad he saw his mom and wasn't scared in the end.
When my dad was passing he started talking to his grandson he'd lost some 20 years before. About a month later, my dad's cousin (who was close to passing) commented on my dad having visited her, but he was young and handsome again. She hadn't been informed that he had passed.
There's a series about death on Netflix, I can't remember the name. But in one if the episodes they discuss the whole phenomenon of people seeing dead relatives, friends, even pets shortly before they pass away themselves. I find it really fascinating. I've never heard of rallying but it must be heartbreaking to think that your loved one is improving, and then they pass away.
It's called "terminal lucidity", and it's a real phenomenon that happens to many many people. There are just a couple doctors out there that have are working on understanding this more and are actively studying patients. If anyone is interested, there are a couple interviews by a doctor studying this I could link
There is a third phenomenon. Many will not die as long as a loved one is at the bedside. It's like the loved one is holding on to their spirit. Many many people have died when their loved ones step away from the bed for a minute. 35 year nurse veteran
My cat had a rally two days before she passed away. I had scheduled her final appointment for later in the week, since she was declining but comfortable. Then two days before her appointment, she suddenly seemed better. She was her old self again. It made me question my decision. I kept the appointment, but I really doubted myself. About an hour before her appointment, she started to decline and was clearly uncomfortable. I'm so grateful that I made her appointment when I did because it was between the Tuesday and Thursday, and I picked Thursday. Tuesday was such a good day, I would have always questioned myself. Instead, I got a great extra day with her. I just wish the vet hadn't been running late coming to my house, because then she would have passed before the discomfort set in. At least I knew though, for certain, it was the right time.
I lost two very close family people suddenly in a month no warning. For a time after, at night lying in bed I kept hearing what seemed like people outside but like I was hearing a badly tuned radio. It made no sense and looking outside once saw no one. It was only when I talked with a friend who explained it was a spiritual experience that can happen when people are exposed to death. I was a bit dismissive but he showed me in a spiritual book he had some pages describing exactly what I had experienced.
my mum was dying of cancer,she had not gone out for months, was always in bed.then one day she took us to the nearby furniture shop to buy our new bedroom. l genuinely thought she was going to heal. she died the next month
I'll be calling my childhood Irish Setter. She was my buddy and partner in crime, and a real cutie.
My great-grandfather (age 89) was written off as a nut case when he started accusing his housekeeper of entertaining a boyfriend. Soon after, he passed away. Years later, I found out that the housekeeper's father had committed suicide when she was a teenager; great-grandfather was seeing this man attempting to apologize to his daughter for abandoning her.
Hunh. When my mother died of pancreatic cancer 16 1/2 years ago, she first went into a coma 54 hours prior to her death. There was no vision of "angels," nor of seeing Dad, who had died 13 days before she did. There were no visions of their dead pets, nor of either of their family members who had died before them. I worked in a large hospital, ICU, for the last 18 years prior to retirement. Sat with many dying patients, and never once saw or heard any of this stuff. I don't believe in ny of the gobbledy-gook of "angels," or seeing dead people, so that's probably why I've never witnessed anyone else doing it....nothing's going to happen when a nonbeliever is present. Not about to change my mind, either.
All the women in our family were with my step-dad when he passed (me, half sister - his daughter, our mom, his sister, and her daughter). At one point he looks at his sister and asks "what's she doing here". Aunt asks who and he says 'Mom". Aunt then tells him to 'tell that bitch to go away". That's when I accepted he was not going to pull through this. None of us left for anything until he passed.
Recommended reading: Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley.
I have experience the deaths of hundreds of patients when i was in the medical field, I always remember the rally experience because we had patients that have been bed bound for weeks without eating or even drinking sometimes (mostly unresponsive) when out of nowhere you would come to work a shift and find them up, well dressed, with the bed made talking and eating a meal. For some of the family members (it was a miracle) but we all knew that probably that night they would pass. Also i had lots of experiences with dying patients always talking about how there were many people standing around the beds or seeing a persistent light in the room (they would tell us to please turn off the blinding light).
Yeah. Does that only happen in the US, where the majority have a belief, or also in European countries, where the majority of people don't?
I'm in the US and I have no spiritual beliefs because my science-inclined mind tells me there's no proof so it's not real ...but working in the medical field for over 20 years has shown me there are things we simply cannot explain or prove with "quantifiable" data.
Load More Replies...The rally must of been what my dog went through before he passed. He was about 3 months old and he got into something he wasn't supposed too. The last few days before he passed he was up and eating and acting almost normal. It gave us hope but now I know that it is something that happens sometimes. He passed from kidney failure from said thing he got into in August of this year. I miss him dearly and this is kind off comforting in the sense that I might see him when I die. (Great now I'm crying)
Do animals have a spiritual presence also? Three days after our dog died I walked into the bedroom late one night and piled in the exact spot where he slept at night was a pile of blankets in roughly the size, shape and color of him. Scared the crap out of me but I am coming to think that he was saying good bye in his own way.
I don't know about the "seeing dead loves ones" part, but I can attest that the "rally" phenomenon is true. The same thing happened with my grandma and my cousin. Not with my uncle though; he gradually got worse and worse. As pragmatic as I am, I like to think that the rally phase is for "put things in order", you know, saying goodbye to your loved ones, making arrangements, leaving good memories of you...
Yep, nothing new. These two phenomenons have been known for a really long time.
We're not pushovers for New Age nonsense. We have experience and have witnessed things you have no idea about. When you've worked 38 years in nursing and been with countless patients and families going through this, get back to me. Then I'll believe you've seen enough to know.
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