![]() in skin colour, which is also called mottling, where the extremities turn a little purple also is something people think indicates something is wrong - but it doesn't. READ MORE: Why you might feel anxious returning to 'normal' after lockdown – and how to cope Julie debunks some common fears associated with the dying process. Pre-death visions (PDVs) are visions of deceased loved ones that patients often have in the weeks before they die."Most families think this indicates something is wrong but nine times out of 10 it doesn't. Near or nearing death awareness (NDA) is a term to describe a dying person’s experiences of the dying process and broadly refers to a variety of experiences such as end of life dreams or visions.ĭeathbed visions (DBVs) are the visions dying patients have in the days or hours immediately preceding death. The following was extracted, with permission, from Hogan’s book, Your Eternal Self, published in 2009 by Greater Reality Publications, pages 66-76.ĭocuments experiences of NDA from his book Your Eternal Self and his website. ( and is a writer and trainer of writers with 38 years experience. He is director of the Center for Spiritual Understanding and on the boards of the Academy of Spiritual and Paranormal Studies and the Association for Evaluation and Communication of Evidence for Survival. Hogan is co-author of Guided Afterlife Connections (Greater Reality Publications, 2011). The book contains 26 accounts of people who have had their own afterlife connections through the Dr. Nearing Death Awareness as Evidence of Survival Hogan’s Guided Afterlife Connections procedure. Pre-death visions are visions of deceased loved ones patients commonly have in the weeks before they die. Deathbed visions are the visions dying patients have in the days or hours immediately preceding death. Both help the person prepare for the transition. They are God’s counselors, bringing reassurance to those about to cross over.ĭr. James L Hallenbeck, director of palliative care services with the Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System, estimates that these pre-death visions or deathbed visions of deceased loved ones occur for at least 25 percent of deaths. Stephen Wagner estimates the number of people who experience deathbed visions as even more because only about 10 percent of dying people are conscious shortly before their deaths. ![]() Looking just at those who are conscious, between 50 and 60 percent experience deathbed visions.Ĭhildren are truth-tellers because of their youthful naivete, so when they experience such visions, they describe them matter-of-factly. Melvin Morse describes children’s deathbed visions, explaining that they are astonishing scientific proof of the validity of the near-death experience.ĭr. ![]() Diane Komp, a Yale pediatric oncologist, described a 7-year-old girl who sat up in bed just before her death from leukemia and said, “The angels, they are so beautiful, can’t you hear them singing Mommy?” A boy dying of leukemia said that God spoke to him and that he asked God to live another year so he could explain his death to his 3-year-old brother. ![]() Amazingly, against medical odds, the boy lived one more year.Įlisabeth Kubler-Ross described a healthy 4-year-old girl who had a vivid dream she described to her mother. She said she saw a beautiful golden heaven and that it was “really, really, real,” with gold angels, diamonds, and jewels. She told her mother not to worry because Jesus would take care of her. ![]() She then went out to play and sadly was murdered only hours later. Osis, Ph.D., psychology professor at the University of Freiburg, and Erlendur Haraldsson, Ph.D., psychology professor at the University of Munich, studied deathbed visions in the U.S. And India by interviewing doctors and nurses who had been present when people died. ![]()
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