Angel takes dying grandmother home - shared death experience.
What Researchers Found
The Story
The 91-year-old grandmother, Nanny, experienced a near-death event due to old age and prolonged illness. She was bedridden, in pain, with hardened hands and sores on her back after 10 days without solid food. As family members gathered around her bed, she grew weak and unable to communicate. During her passing, Nanny's eyes opened wide and fixed upward, her skin turned white, and her upper body seemed elevated. The narrator sensed a tall, gleaming male figure in a long robe, like God, Jesus, or an angel, telepathically commanding her to follow him. Family members felt an overwhelming sense of joy, exhilaration, and unifying energy, more powerful than human experience. Nanny made gentle mouth movements and died peacefully. After the event, the narrator replayed the experience repeatedly, felt shock and brief depression, but gained lasting gratitude. Anxiety decreased, heart rate dropped, and feelings of love for others increased.
“exhilaration and joy we felt as she was brain it was like we briefly tapped into”
This shared death experience features a subjective internal vision of an angelic figure and shared feelings of energy among family witnesses at the bedside, lacking any veridical perceptions of impossible-to-access physical details. No verification attempts or confirmations of specific claims were made, with only immediate post-event discussions among participants showing some corroboration of emotional and minor visual phenomena but also discrepancies.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
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What Researchers Found
This shared death experience features a subjective internal vision of an angelic figure and shared feelings of energy among family witnesses at the bedside, lacking any veridical perceptions of impossible-to-access physical details. No verification attempts or confirmations of specific claims were made, with only immediate post-event discussions among participants showing some corroboration of emotional and minor visual phenomena but also discrepancies.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.