To Emily-end of life

debralla said:

Bud
You are so right . I am a firm believer that they are with us in spirt .
I have written this before in a previous post about my Stepfather and what kind of man he was , But I will write it again just so you know why I believe..My Mom married him when I was seven and he was the meanest roughest man . I was terrified of him . He had a tough life and spent most of that fighting in two war's in which he lost many of his friends.He never went to church nor did he ever talk about religion So I often thought he didn't believe . But I will always remember his most famous words when we did something wrong and that was "There are two things I hate and that is a liar and a theif "and he lived by those words!!As he got older he started having a lot of medical problems and came close to dying a few times in fact one time they lost him on the OR table .One day I was talking to him on the phone which was usually a how's the weather , is Mom there conversation . But for some reason we started talking about his recent hospital experence I asked him when he was on the OR table the Dr's said that they lost you for a little while . He told me yes . I said did you have an after life experence ?.He told me yes. He was quite the yes no conversation man . But I continued and asked him what did he see . He told me Well I seen My MaMa and My Pappy . and my Brother . I asked him well did they say anything ? and in his kind of I don't feel like talking about it voice . He said Yes . Well what did they say ? He told me that they told him Bobby go back its not your time .His name was Bob But growing up they called him Bobby . He became more relaxed in our conversation So I asked him did they look like themselves . He told me no they looked like bright beautiful silhouetts of themselves .He said that although you could not see them clearly that you just knew it was them. He said he was in the most beautiful most peaceful place he had ever been and he didn't want to leave . But that they told him that he had to it wasn't his time .Well after that he had many more close calls but he refused to go to the Dr. He passed away two years later They found him out in his truck with his cowboy hat on and of course his boots . With the most peaceful look on his face .He had a heart attack.
So I try to keep his story in my heart when I am having a whatif moment .
anyone else have a afterlife story ???
Take Care and God Bless
Debra

scouty said:

I sure hope and pray there is "something and someplace" else out there. This man made destruction, brutality, abuse, ignorance, etc. etc. etc. sure gets old sometimes.

When I was 17, my best friend and I were visiting her older newly married sister. Their father had died 2 years earlier. At 3AM, there phone rang and it was their mother wanting to know if everything was okay. Janice, (my best friend) was already awake knocking on the door to her sister's bedroom. The husband answered and at first thought Brenda was alseep until he realized she was unconscious. An ambulance was called and it turns out she is one of those that can not take birth control pills. The docs said, she would have been dead in 30 more minutes. Why did the Mom call and why was Janice already awake, both saw Mr. Ballard and their descriptions of him and what he did were almost identical. It still makes the hairs on my arms stand up. We all know he was telling us something wasn't right.

Lisa P.

2bhealed said:

well as a self-professed Jesus believing freak, I absolutely believe in an afterlife where our souls return from whence they came--into God's presence. what better place could there be? I don't know of any.

I have no doubt her soul found its peace, it was her body that was having a rough go.

She wouldn't go until my father came to terms with her death. It was an uncanny thing but a whole 'nother story.

She didn't want hospice at all. We knew someone personally who did hospice but Shannon wouldn't do it. I honestly think she was in some sort of denial about her death to some degree. And maybe hospice would mean she was giving up the ghost. She was a fighter extraordinaire.

I approach cancer in a more Zen attitude. What can it teach me and how can I grow from this.

I definitely felt her presence around me especially the day she died when I went home to my kids and told them their auntie had died. I kept turning around cuz I felt someone approaching from behind.....a "presence" if you will. You know that feeling when you feel someone enter the room. So I kept turning around but no one was there and then it dawned on me.....it was Shannon standing beside me as I told my children.

And then many months she visited my dreams and gave me messages. I have one story that will make the hair on your arms raise up!

Anyway, I firmly believe she is happier and freer than we are on earth, but I am not in any hurry to get there.

peace, emily who would prefer to become a little old lady

kerry said:

What an interesting post......I've never had visions, but I do have dreams. Most recently (1 1/2 yrs ago) I dreamed of my cancer recurrance. Woke up early in the morning and found a lump in my neck. Went to the doctor immediately and he said it was nothing.....that is when I asked for a PET scan (which he pooh-pooh'd) and low and behold my cancer had returned. Had I not had the dream I would not have been so vigilant and caught it early. Yes, we have guardian angels looking out for us. Sometimes they take us home, sometimes we stay here on earth a while longer.

Kerry