whether someone who died in terrible suffering can find complete peace and healing

“And I could see the look on her face. She just became so relaxed, and I could tell she was quite happy, if you can be in that state. And she passed away peacefully.”31:38

“His grandma comforted him from beyond death.”25:10

“I was with her when she died. She passed in my arms, which I'd wished for. I'll never forget what happened right after. These are the moments that stay with you even decades later. My grandmother stopped breathing and I was holding a lifeless body. I suddenly thought, Oh God, I no longer love my grandmother. Hopefully no one is seeing this right now. I felt no connection to that body. I almost felt found out. Because everything I had ever loved, it was like a tin can with the fish already gone. And then came this moment that changed my life.”7:42

“For example, your grandmother who died may not still look like how she left you, but if you were dying, she may manifest in the image you are used to to bring you comfort, ease, and familiarity through your transition.”19:25

“It was as if my complete peace with the idea of death helped will my body into giving up, not resisting the process. I was totally and utterly at peace and so pleased with this concept. I felt some kind of a floating feeling and started to see differently my body on the bed and my friend crying frantically. For a tiny moment, I felt sorry for my body as if an old friend who I had empathized with, but I was done with it and wanted to move on without it.”2:08

“So my grandma talked to me, who had passed a long time ago. She showed up. She told me to tell her daughter, my aunt, that was in the room, that she didn't want her to be sad anymore for her mom. She told me to tell her that she doesn't want her up at night crying for her anymore, that it's okay, and she's okay, and that everything's all right, and she doesn't have to do that. She wants to see her happy and not sad.”10:47

“'Why was my grandma suffering so right before she died? That's not real.'”42:54

“When my grandma died, I had a dream that I was in heaven, and I was searching for her so I could say a final goodbye.”13:15

“But what I saw is that when I met my grandfather, he was part of the unconditional love that I had experienced in life, and he was the only person who had transitioned. When I saw him, he gave me great peace, and I thought, 'Well, all I have is the memories of love with him. I don't have the memories in that place of his dying form, of what he looked like when he had leukemia. I just remember his soul's desire to write stories to me, to connect with me, to be that loving grandfather, to be that figure in my life that showed me that I was important.'”27:49

“And the family told me afterwards that they felt such tremendous peace with this that, and they were so thankful to have this extra time to say goodbye. I think it's very important that in the dying process that people die in peace and not in her case, a traumatic death.”37:09

“I would like to know, like, I've talked to some people who've had like older like parents or grandparents pass, and I feel fortunate because like, I guess my stories helped them deal with that passing because they said that they were also really at peace.”14:01

“So to me, it felt reasonable to be happy for them knowing that the situation they were in before they passed away. So I was just so happy that I thought the pain had gone away.”20:49

“And they were happy to see me, and I was very happy to see them, and they appeared to me to be my grandmas, not like before they passed away, which is my grandmothers. And I couldn't take my eyes off my grandmother's eyes. They were like this endless tunnel of blue light. And I felt God's presence right there. And it's not like she was talking to me, it's like her thoughts were conveyed to me through her eyes.”13:39

“What I saw is that when I met my grandfather, he was part of the unconditional love that I'd experienced in life. And he was the only person who had transitioned when I saw him. He gave me great peace. And I thought, 'Well, all I have is the memories of love with him. I don't have the memories in that place of his dying form, of what he looked like when he had leukemia. I just remember his soul's desire to write stories to me, to connect with me, to be that loving grandfather, to be that figure in my life that showed me that I was important.' And that was, that was beautiful. That's all that we had in that realm was the love that we had experienced.”37:53

“And so, and that brought me peace. Like, like people when they have near-death experiences, they speak of the beauty, maybe they see Jesus or a religious figure that they feel very close to. I didn't get that. What I felt, or, or they see beautiful skies and things like that and, uh, I didn't get that. What I get, my beauty was being relieved of all of the burdens I was carrying through life is that I felt like everything made sense now. Anything I was shameful of or I regretted, it didn't matter anymore because I understood it and I learned from that experience.”23:58

“My grandmother was there. Now, she had been dead for 14 years, and I had never once believed that anybody existed beyond their death. And my grandmother just put her arms around me like she did when I was a child and pulled me into her chest, and the next thing I knew, we were re-experiencing all 19 years we were on the planet together.”3:24