[MineralMan]

"I don't know about the white spot, but I tend to believe the boy's testimony."

Why? I'm sure the boy _believed_ he saw angels, but brain tumors are funny things. They make you see things that are not there as one of the common symptoms.

[Aquinasfan]

They make you see things that are not there as one of the common symptoms.

Both are logical possibilities, but I tend to believe the boy. Just intuition.

[Judith Anne]

My politics are eclectic. However, I expect every person to treat every other person with a certain degree of courtesy and respect, unless that person behaves in a dangerous, threatening, or discourteous manner.

So, when it comes to politics you believe in courtesy, but when it comes to the parents of a dead child relating a comforting story, it's okay to be rude, a la, "Family is stupid"?

I've been around a lot of people as they died...some were unconscious, but some were awake and aware...one, a young woman with cancer, spoke clearly about seeing the beautiful flowers of heaven, smelling the wonderful perfume...she saw her parents waiting for her, and died with her eyes wide open, free of pain, and smiling.

I have no problem with someone who does not believe in God, or heaven, or the angels of a little boy dying...but I certainly don't think the family is stupid. I'm grateful they are comforted.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

There has been other stories of small children who survived near-death experiences or were close to dying seeing angels.

Why not monsters or demons?

I tend to believe the children's stories - apparently there's an "Age of Innocence" where small children are allowed to see things that older people can't.

No matter how much this happens, there is always going to be room for doubt for those who don't believe... At least on this side of the "veil"...

[txzman]

Interesting part of the story (if anyone would bother to listen to the video) is that there were three *DIFFERENT* cameras, with three *DIFFERENT* film types, processed at three *DIFFERENT* stores all with the same images, all with exactly the same shape.

Add to that a video camera which also captured the same pictures.

I'm not saying they were angels either, but the circumstances sure make for an interesting story.

[baseballmom]

...but brain tumors are funny things. They make you see things that are not there as one of the common symptoms.

2 months before my mother died of a brain tumor, she said to me - out of the blue- "I think Margaret died". Margaret was her sister, who had been in declining health for a few years. She had no way of knowing that, indeed, Margaret had died a week or so before. We did not tell her, for fear of upsetting her. She just knew. She saw her.

One either believes in this type of thing, or they don't. I'm a believer.

[r9etb]

Who let you out of your punchbowl, MM? Geeze -- give it a rest. If you don't like the topic, stay off the thread!