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I’ve been with many people at their time of death.

Just prior to death, there is a period referred to as “Pre-Death Agitation.” Even the people who have been calm and peaceful their entire life go through it. After that period their is peace and contentment, and the person is of with surrendering to death.

This period is the ego death, or the death of the individual self identity. It is what Jesus spoke of in the process of “dying daily.” In Buddhism, it is the process of achieving “No Self.” which must precede enlightenment. They are both describing the same process.

I was presenting at the hospital recently to a group of Dr’s, faculty and med students when I mentioned that our goal in life is to go thorough this “Pre-Death Agitation phase as early as possible in our lives so that we to can live in peace and contentment. It’s hard to understand this unless you are in the process of diminishing self or close to a “Dark Night” experience.