Proof of Life after Life by Raymond Moody & Paul Perry

Author:Raymond Moody & Paul Perry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
Published: 2023-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

Healing Experience

TL can also be a powerful healing experience, especially among those struggling with family dysfunction. End-of-life experiences like TL provide the opportunity to “set things right” in a family. It is common that TL witnesses talk of love being expressed to them by a parent who had never before said “I love you.” Frank discussions of past transgressions are often the final subjects between the dying and the living. It is these last-minute conversations that give TL the reputation of being a possible healing event.

Lending credence to the healing power of TL is this story from my coauthor, Paul Perry, who had the opportunity to observe such a TL event in action. Paul was in the hospital visiting his son, who had broken his leg in a motorcycle accident. The first day he visited the hospital, a bevy of nurses wheeled a man into the room directly across the hall. He was asleep when they brought him in, and one of the nurses told Paul that the man had dementia and was very close to death.

The second day Paul came to the hospital, he paid more attention to the man across the hall. The doctor had put him on oxygen, and he just lay there without moving as different members of his family dropped in to see him, tried to strike up a conversation, and then left when no words were exchanged.

The third day brought something quite different as Paul looked in. Around the bed were six family members sitting in chairs, and on the bed was the man with dementia, walking around among the bedsheets like he was onstage, talking to each family member in turn. He was offering remembrances of them, some of which must have been funny because there was occasional laughter from the group.

Paul couldn’t hear what the man was saying, but his first thought was that he had just seen a man healed of dementia. When Paul left the hospital, the family members were laughing, crying, hugging, and telling the man that they loved him and were glad he would soon be well.

The fourth day, when Paul arrived, he found the man’s room empty. He had died in the middle of the night, a nurse said.

Before Paul left, he ran into some of the family members who had come back to gather the man’s belongings. They said something Paul could not have anticipated. The man Paul had seen holding court from the bed had been everyone’s least favorite uncle. He had always been dour and self-centered. His most recent behavior, and his last, had been shocking to the family members lucky enough to be there.

“I think he came back to show us how funny and nice he was,” said a family member. “It was his gift to us to show us love and attention before he was gone.”

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