I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying | Dr. Christopher Kerr | TEDxBuffalo | YouTube | Published on December 2, 2015
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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.
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I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying | Dr. Christopher Kerr | TEDxBuffalo | YouTube | Published on December 2, 2015
Have a great rest of your day.
If I make money selling tuna fish, I see tuna fish.
When my wife’s sister (now in her 50’s) was around 7, and the family lived in Chicago area, this happened:
The family is around the kitchen table talking, and she is in bed. This is around 9 or 10 p.m. She comes out of her room and wants to see grandpa because she didn’t get to say goodbye. They explain that he lives in California and he’s not there. She insists that he was just in her room saying goodbye but she didn’t get to say goodbye because she was so sleepy. She is so insistant that they call his number so she can talk to him.
At the other end of the line a friend (or grandma) answers and says they were about to call because grandpa had just passed away.
Make of it what you will. My wife will never forget that night.
After my father passed he appeared to my mom, sister, me in a dream. We all had the same dream when I brought it up.
Recently my mom was ill and had an angel appear before her. Said it was very comforting.
A woman I used to work with had her mom, right after she died, show up at the foot of her bed. I have less details on that one so I don’t bring it up much.
My wife and I also have two miraculous healings from prayer. I don’t mention them all that often but when I do, it’s amazing how many people have their own similar stories.
Some things are sort of like Eric Ciaramella. Nobody talks about them much, but they are very real.
“A woman I used to work with had her mom, right after she died, show up at the foot of her bed.”
Exact same thing happened to my grandmother when my grandfather died. He told her she would be alright. She said it was very comforting. She lived another 25 years.
Do you make any money being a skeptical contrarian?
While I don’t take a firm position on the topic of messages from the dead, I note that science has adopted a materialist bias. Molecules and chemicals exist, and science is happy to talk about such things.
You want to talk about God? You want to talk about what came before the Big Bang? You want to talk about the origin of Life? You think some people have received messages from the Dead?
Science has a very closed mind toward such things. It’s all “crazy talk”.
If we able to discuss the possibility of non-material things having an impact on our material world, we might actually get somewhere. But it’s mostly not allowed.
When it comes to near death experiences specifically, there seems to be two general categories.
One allows for subjective interpretation, such as lights, tunnels, feelings of love, etc.
The other category is very strong objective evidence, as documented by many and described by historian Gary Habermas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSW6CPTPG0o
If you only knew!
My mother saw my father after he died...he came to her bedside. And my grandmother before she died said “who is that man in white?”....someone she saw who no one else saw.
I think my mother warned me a few years ago...I was sick and should have gone to the doctor...not doing so almost killed me. I also feel that I’ve had messages and warnings at important times. And...once...a long time ago I saw something in a “dream” very specific that hadn’t yet happened - it happened 3 weeks later.
In the last weeks of his life, My dad swore that shadowy figures dressed in “old-fashioned” garb were frequently coming into his house. He said they were not frightening, but not helpful either. When I asked what he thought they were he’d just shrug and say “beats the sh*t outta me.”
“If I make money selling tuna fish, I see tuna fish”.
What a brilliant, insightful thing to say regarding the death experience. /S
In the two days before my father passed, while in the hospital with a very weak heart, he saw childhood friends at the foot of his bed, and a choir singing outside of his window. He said it quite lucidly, but without any sense of fear or bemusement.
When my mom died, she appeared at the foot of my sister’s bed. My sister told me that she was smiling and at peace.
Pim van Lommel, a Dutch cardiologist, has studied NDE for a long time and written about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_van_Lommel
3 of my kids have been nurses in end care hospice for years and years. They were not believers before they went into this field. Now experiences are so common it is just another day at work for them, I enjoy them sharing some of these with each other as one professional to another while I listen.
Anna & Elizabeth - Greenwood Sidey
It should be the theme song of the Pro-Life movement. It's about a woman who goes into the woods to give birth to kill the kids. The thought of the kids torments her forever afterwards. Really excellent music and powerful message.
I wonder if those who have had abortions encounter similar regret as their own lives come to an end in old age.
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