2017-10-24, 04:01 AM
As usual, Greg Taylor has some interesting comments and links over at his fresh-look site, The Daily Grail. This article is about a Japanese Study of end-of-life experiences with some interesting findings. He notes that the study:
In a related link which I had not read previously, he has the account of the last days of the famous film critic, Roger Ebert. I found this quote particularly interesting:
Quote:…highlights that deathbed visions are not distressing phenomena for all patients and families, and some regard them as transpersonal phenomena in the dying process, not hallucinations, consistent with previous preliminary studies.
Clinicians should not automatically regard deathbed visions as abnormal phenomena to be medically treated, and an individualized approach is strongly needed.
The findings that the contents of deathbed visions were mostly related to deceased persons, not religious figures, and that patients and families were reluctant to talk about this to healthcare professionals confirmed earlier observations.
In a related link which I had not read previously, he has the account of the last days of the famous film critic, Roger Ebert. I found this quote particularly interesting:
Quote:The one thing people might be surprised about — Roger said that he didn’t know if he could believe in God. He had his doubts. But toward the end, something really interesting happened. That week before Roger passed away, I would see him and he would talk about having visited this other place. I thought he was hallucinating. I thought they were giving him too much medication. But the day before he passed away, he wrote me a note: “This is all an elaborate hoax.” I asked him, “What’s a hoax?” And he was talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn’t visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a vastness that you can’t even imagine. It was a place where the past, present, and future were happening all at once.