Death - Changing the Understanding
(Part 1)

Seven years ago a friend who is a nurse came to me, somewhat perturbed. Knowing the work I'm in she sought my opinion on what was happening in her field of work. On her differing shifts she sometimes observed patients, who were close to passing to the higher side, actually walk past her when seated at her station. She would walk to the bed and there they would be. She would gently check the vital signs, though sometimes faint, they would be there. In her thoughts she knew that the medical world had done in all possibility what it could, and the majority of the cases were on high pain relief. She would then think if it's their time to go, let them pass with dignity. After a few times of this actually happening, she became a little worried, thinking that she had effected this cause of events in some manner.

I assured her that she had not in any way brought anyone's passing about. What she was witnessing was the closest astral vehicle(energy body) having a look around enjoying the freedom of a body without pain. Then in her healing capacity, giving that person a kind of permission to go, in her loving thoughts of relief from pain. In the due course of that procedure they did pass to the higher side. All she had done was link into it at a pivotal point and in some way helped, by mentally saying "It's ok."

Other friends I have met in the same field of work have stated the following when needing to inform relatives of a loved one being close to passing. Out of five, two witnessed the above, as in the patient walking past them. In cases where a family member had been with the patient for a considerable time, whether the patient was in a conscious state (medically) or not. They actually passed when the family member left the room, for a meal or to go meet some visitor coming to be there with them. Others would pass when a particular family member arrived, or soon after, as if to say,"That's it they've all been now, I can go." It mattered not if they were in the room or away from it. These events are the giving permission from those here for that person to go on their great adventure which they had already decided to anyway. In part being witnessed by the nurses in attendance.

I had already on two occasions witnessed this in my family, though at the time did not have the knowledge I do now to realise it. On one hospital visit it was clear that the person concerned was looking way beyond me and greeting with a smile some one I could not see. Then smiling at me as if to say "See you later."
I've never forgotten the light in those eyes at that moment, so bright. I did not physically see them again. They waited until I was out of the ward, then passed. The other I had a conversation with two/three months before they passed and they had left the house and passed away from us also. A dignity in the warning that this was their time and you do not have to witness it. A far sightedness in their caring for those involved as we all relate to grief in a different way, and it was then possible for us to go about that process as we would and did, individually.

They knew. I cannot be convinced of anything else. The nurses also know that this is the case with their patients.

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