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I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying
YouTube ^ | December 2, 2015 | Dr. Christopher Kerr | TEDxBuffalo

Posted on 11/22/2019 11:38:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Dr. Christopher W. Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer at The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, where he has worked since 1999. His background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside, specifically patients’ dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: christopherwkerr; faithandphilosophy; fringe; hospice; lifeafterlife; ohsomysteriouso
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To: cuban leaf

I had been trying to master a cell-phone video game for 1 year. The day my mother passed (at home), several of us siblings were sitting around her living room after the undertaker had come to take her away.

I’m convinced my mother is a saint (given her church-going, sweet nature, and fact I never saw or heard of her commit a sin - EVER) and we had a very easy and joking relationship. I said aloud to the group, as I turned on my cell phone to kill some time. “Well now, maybe Mom can help me reach the final level of XXX game.”

Boom - two minutes later, I had sped through all the levels, and the app was dinging as I had finally gone all the way to the end. Everyone in the room was shocked and laughed loudly.


21 posted on 11/22/2019 12:24:25 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

That one cracks me up. Sound’s like something she’d do. :)


22 posted on 11/22/2019 12:26:02 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Jamestown1630

The one I like was where an OCD patient went flatline on the hospital bed, went above her body and memorized a 12 digit number way up on the top of the breathing machine.

She later told the nurse about it. The nurse checked on the top of the machine and sure enough, the lady had the 12 digits exactly correct.


23 posted on 11/22/2019 12:31:00 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Two days before my dad died, I was talking with him in his hospital room. He was 100% lucid. In the middle of a conversation, he suddenly went silent. His eyes widened as he gazed toward the foot of his bed. A look of peace came over his face. I thought he might be having a stroke. I said, “Dad? Dad?” He ignored me. He kept staring for about five more seconds and then said, “I can see my brother Leo. Right there. Plain as day. Strangest thing.” He looked for a few more seconds, and then looked back at me and picked up our conversation right where we left off! Leo had died two years earlier. My brother works with hospice patients, and he’s had many patients with similar visions right before they die.


24 posted on 11/22/2019 12:32:07 PM PST by Restless
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To: cuban leaf

Make of it what you will.

Yeah, I have the same attitude with respect to our family story. That my grandfather, in his hospital bed seconds before he passed, suddenly sat up staring joyfully up at the ceiling and exclamed “JACK”! Falling back to his pillow he died. Jack was his adult son who’d predeceased him by a few years. His whole family witnessed this.


25 posted on 11/22/2019 12:34:25 PM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: SunkenCiv

My wife’s father was on life support. The second day when we visited my wife held her dad’s hand and said, “It’s Ok dad you can go.” He immediately flat lined.


26 posted on 11/22/2019 12:34:33 PM PST by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: SunkenCiv

While missionaries Nate Saint and Jim Elliot were being murdered by the Auca Indians, the Indians heard “foreigners singing above the trees”. Decades later, when Saint’s son went back to the Aucas and Christian choir music was being played on CD, a native recognized the song. He said, “ That is what I heard, just like that, when your father died” even though there was no “human” music during the massacre.

http://christianitymiracles.blogspot.com/2013/05/operation-auca-miracle-of-five-martyred.html


27 posted on 11/22/2019 12:35:18 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: Steely Tom

I suggest you read the comments below the video and then discuss this topic with medical doctors and nurses as well as paramedics before you poo poo the video. Then talk to those who work in hospice care. When you’re done with that, talk to widows and widowers who have had signs from their deceased spouses.

My husband died next to me unexpectedly at 3:11 a.m. I pray you never have to experience that.


28 posted on 11/22/2019 12:36:40 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s mostly not allowed, true.

Except when a lady goes into cardiac arrest for five or so minutes on the hospital bed and has an out of body experience.

She then memorizes a twelve digit number way up out of sight on top of the respirator machine.

Later, a nurse interviews her, and confirms the lady had all 12 digits correct and in order.


29 posted on 11/22/2019 12:37:04 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: All

As Gary Habermas points out, the skeptics have no answer for NDE’s when they’re validated by objective evidence.

These cases give us some of the most powerful evidence refuting the ideologies of naturalism and scientific materialism.


30 posted on 11/22/2019 12:42:08 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: TalBlack

Holy cow!


31 posted on 11/22/2019 12:45:16 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: All

Again, there are two categories here.

One is the subjective kind, as Christopher Kerr seems to be focused on.

But there are an overwhelming number of cases where people see things in the next room, or outside the hospital, while they’re lying on the hospital bed unconscious and being resuscitated.

It’s a test of nerves for those who claim to be objective but prefer to believe only naturalistic explanations.


32 posted on 11/22/2019 12:51:53 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

Why would a person deny objective evidence?


33 posted on 11/22/2019 12:53:08 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: cuban leaf

My mother in-law passed in 2007. That night I dreamed she was sitting on the chair in my bedroom telling me goodbye. She also told me she was wrong about me and apologized for it. My wife called me the next morning to tell me she had passed away. To this day I firmly believe she was there to make amends.


34 posted on 11/22/2019 12:58:13 PM PST by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: reasonisfaith

I recall a story like that where the person who died “saw” a single tennis shoe lying on an outside ledge of a building that she couldn’t have possible known was there. Later someone checked, and there was the odd tennis shoe that for some reason had been tossed up there.

I have a lot of tentative beliefs about all of this; but one is that when we are near death, senses that we possess but that are not often apparent are magnified. I had extremely odd experiences with my grandmother when she was dying and I was caring for her, that made me believe this.


35 posted on 11/22/2019 1:03:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: cuban leaf

I believe this happens.

I have stories that has happened to family before another family member passed away but I won’t bore everyone.


36 posted on 11/22/2019 1:05:20 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Restless

My mother slipped into a semi-coma and was talking to dead relatives as if they were there. My sister said she felt like she was eavesdropping.


37 posted on 11/22/2019 1:10:38 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Jamestown1630

My mom passed in 2007.She was in the ER overnight with heart arythmia and no one suspected she would die shortly. I came in from out of town and we were all with her in intensive care where they were giving her some drugs to get her heart back in rhythm. She seemed fine otherwise, She was a bit obsessed about the possibility that Hillary might become president, and we talked about that for awhile. Then she mentioned she was worried about “that man” who had been sitting outside her room all night in a wheelchair parked up against the window. She could see it clearly and kept saying how could they let him sit there like that all night and no one was helping him. I did not see anyone in the chair, actually went outside the room to look in it. The last time she mentioned it I said don’t worry about him mom he’s an angel. She just said OK. They came in and shocked her heart as the drugs were not working and she passed.


38 posted on 11/22/2019 1:12:32 PM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: SunkenCiv
My long deceased grandmother once told me about what had happened to her.

She was sound asleep and was awakened by a few knocks on her bedroom door. A voice she recognized as her best friend said, "Goodbye, Nell, I'm leaving." She noticed the time, 4AM, and fell back asleep. Later that day she learned that her best friend had passed away at 4AM. ????

39 posted on 11/22/2019 1:13:32 PM PST by JPG (MAGA!)
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To: AppyPappy

When I was about 4 years old in 1953 my Grandfather died. A day or two later I say him standing at the foot of my bed looking at me. I was his favorite. People have told me it was a dream. Maybe it was. After reading these comments I’m not so sure.


40 posted on 11/22/2019 1:15:14 PM PST by Valentine Michael Smith (You won't find justice in a Courtroom)
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