Terminal Lucidity: The Researchers Attempting to Prove Your Mind Lives On

The case Anna Katharina Ehmer, a 26-year-old woman with severe mental disorders/disabilities who had allegedly never spoken a single word during her entire life. She was reported to have sung 'dying songs' for a half hour before she died. The case was reported by the head of the Hephata Psychiatric Institution in Kurhessen-Nassauis (Prussia /Germany)

One day I was called by one of our physicians, who is respected both as a scientist and a psychiatrist.
He said: “Come immediately to Käthe, she is dying!” When we entered the room together, we did not believe our eyes and [i]ears. Käthe, who had never spoken a single word, being entirely mentally disabled from birth on, sang dying songs to herself. Specifically, she sang over and over again “Where does the soul find its home, its peace? Peace, [i]peace, heavenly peace!” For half an hour she sang. Her face, up to then so stultified, was transfigured and spiritualized. Then, she quietly passed away.[/i][/i]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...l_Lucidity

Sceptics feel free to disregard it but surely it must mean something.

The case Anna Katharina Ehmer, a 26-year-old woman with severe mental disorders/disabilities who had allegedly never spoken a single word during her entire life. She was reported to have sung 'dying songs' for a half hour before she died. The case was reported by the head of the Hephata Psychiatric Institution in Kurhessen-Nassauis (Prussia /Germany)

One day I was called by one of our physicians, who is respected both as a scientist and a psychiatrist.
He said: “Come immediately to Käthe, she is dying!” When we entered the room together, we did not believe our eyes and [i]ears. Käthe, who had never spoken a single word, being entirely mentally disabled from birth on, sang dying songs to herself. Specifically, she sang over and over again “Where does the soul find its home, its peace? Peace, [i]peace, heavenly peace!” For half an hour she sang. Her face, up to then so stultified, was transfigured and spiritualized. Then, she quietly passed away.[/i][/i]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...l_Lucidity

Sceptics feel free to disregard it but surely it must mean something.

Yup, the brain does remarkable things. On a forum such as this when one writes; it must mean somethingthey typically are asking a question with metaphysical intent presuming a metaphysical answer. Are you? Btw. It's difficult at best to evaluate this case because she died 97 years ago and only testimonials to go by.

The case Anna Katharina Ehmer, a 26-year-old woman with severe mental disorders/disabilities who had allegedly never spoken a single word during her entire life. She was reported to have sung 'dying songs' for a half hour before she died. The case was reported by the head of the Hephata Psychiatric Institution in Kurhessen-Nassauis (Prussia /Germany)

Another article on this case.

https://the-formula.org/terminal-lucidit...the-ehmer/

That one includes a version of the song which it is said she sang.
Duo Transeamus Wo findet die Seele
Of course its not likely that she sang as sweetly as this. But the words of the hymn are deeply appropriate for the circumstances of someone who knows they are dying.

A rendition in English.

1 O where is the home of the soul to be found?
Who knows its true shelter where comforts abound?
What city of refuge will offer a place
That sin cannot enter, the soul to disgrace?
Nowhere, nowhere do we behold
On earth such a city of blessings untold.

2 So leave this poor earth if yon home thou wouldst see,
The home of the sainted from sorrow made free.
Jerusalem yonder, resplendent in gold,
Wilt thou to the soul all thy beauties unfold?
Truly, truly, no more to roam,
My soul with the Savior shall there be at home.

3 How blissful to dwell in those regions of light,
Where death, sin and sorrow our joys cannot blight!
The sounding of harps by that heavenly throng
Will welcome the soul to glad music and song.
Sweet rest, deep rest, thou wilt be mind
When I in the arms of my Savior recline.

Elsewhere I came across a reference to a German tradition where those present at a funeral sing as the casket is lowered into the grave, this being an example of such a song. That idea of visualising one's own body entering the grave is even more poignant.

That is, if we take the account as having some accuracy, then Käthe was deeply aware of her situation and the relevance of that song, rather than say reciting nursery rhymes or something more random.

That is, if we take the account as having some accuracy, then Käthe was deeply aware of her situation and the relevance of that song, rather than say reciting nursery rhymes or something more random.

I agree, Typoz! And that absolutely should not have ocurred, but it obviously did. I would urge everyone to look at this case and read the details because it makes 
no sense from a physiological perspective.

Incidentally, the original German lyrics of that song were not entirely philosophical musings but based upon hard personal experience. In the German wikipedia (I know!) it is said that the author Franz Ludwig Jörgens  eventually took his own life, having found no peace on this Earth.