Reply #7: Several years ago [View All]

[devinsgram]

I worked as an aide in hospice. Most to of the time I was assigned patients that were close to their deaths and some of the time, I was there with them when the time came. One gentleman remains quite vivid in my memory. He was an elderly man that had lost his wife about five years before. He was a resident in a very nice church related home. I was with him about a month when he started his decline due to cancer. The morning he died, I had arrived to find him doing very poorly and I was told his death was eminent. I sat by his side and held his hand telling him his family was on their way and assured him I would not leave him. I told him that it was ok for him to go and that his family would understand, because I could tell he was trying to hold on till they arrived so he could say goodbye. As I was talking to him I could see the gold chain around his neck was twisting into knots, sort of like when you put a chain in a drawer and it gets mixed up with other chains and knots up, almost impossible to untangle. It was the only necklace on his neck and I just thought that was kind of weird, how could it have gotten so knotted like that.

Anyway, he looked at me and nodded and within moments he slipped away. I immediately went to get the nurse to let her know that he was gone and then I preceded to get his body ready for his family to view him on their arrival. As I was preparing him I noticed that the necklace that had been so knotted just moments before was completely untwisted and laying around his neck just like it always did before. I could not believe my eyes, it was perfectly straightened out.

I asked the nurse if she had done something to his necklace and she said she hadn't touched anything, because she knew I would take care of everything. I'm not sure what had happened, but it has always stayed with me.

Many of the nurses I worked with told many different stories about what had happened with their patients, but we all agreed that when the time came their was definitely something they could feel happen. Most of the time, the word used the most to describe was "peaceful". It was as though the air was full of energy and then it was "peaceful."