Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences by Sartori Dr Penny

Author:Sartori, Dr Penny [Sartori, Dr Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Watkins Publishing
Published: 2014-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Summary

From these accounts it is apparent that many people undergo pleasant experiences as they approach death. By paying attention to what the dying are trying to communicate to us in subtle ways we can help to meet their spiritual needs and to ensure they have a peaceful death. Dismissal of such transcendent, spiritual experiences by those who have not experienced such a state could be detrimental to them and could even make their dying process more traumatic. It is important to allow the dying to express their experiences and give them the validation they need by reassuring them that such experiences are common, whatever the belief of the caregiver. Deathbed visions have a healing quality, 29 bring comfort, allow people time to review their life and give great meaning at the end of life. Patients who experience visions usually have a peaceful transition into death. 30 A few years ago I had a conversation with a hospice consultant who had counselled many dying patients during the course of her career. She believed that the patients who had the most peaceful deaths were those who had previously experienced an NDE.

Caring for dying patients often causes anxiety for inexperienced staff. Looking after a dying person is not something that can be learned in college or from a textbook. Valuable insight may be gained through these means, but it is not until one actually cares for the dying that one really begin to learn. Hence it is important for all carers and healthcare workers to be prepared for things they may encounter in the course of their work.

Deathbed visions are a common phenomenon but as a society we seem not to talk much about them. This is not because they are not a part of the dying process but because we are not exposed to them as much as we would have been years ago. Dying people were cared for more at home and death was a social event with family, friends, neighbours and children all being present at the deathbed. In the 1880s visits to doctors and advances in surgical techniques started, resulting in the deathbed moving from the home to the hospital sometime in the 1930s. 31 Since then we have become more shielded from death and it is not such an expected part of life. Further advances in technology have resulted in many more patients being treated in intensive-care units than ever before. Most patients who die in intensive care are usually hooked up to various different machines and in drug-induced comas, which leaves no room for deathbed visions. Even patients who die on a hospital ward or in a hospice are not observed by their family 24 hours a day so family members are not always present if deathbed visions occur. So it is not that they don’t occur – we are simply not exposed to them as frequently any more.

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