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\u201cOh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.\u201d Those were the last words of Apple\u2019s cofounder and CEO, Steve Jobs, according to the eulogy his sister gave at his memorial service. Six little words that captured the public\u2019s imagination. Jobs was one of the greatest innovators of our time, a creative genius who brought wonder to the world\u2019s fingertips with products like the iPhone and the iPad. What did his final exclamation mean? What was he experiencing in those last moments? What wonders did he see that surpassed anything in his lifetime on earth?<\/p>\n

As an editor at Mysterious Ways,<\/i> I\u2019ve come across many stories from people who have witnessed the unfathomable at their loved ones\u2019 last moments\u2014from cryptic messages, like Jobs\u2019s, to visions of light. Sometimes there\u2019s just a simple, joyful expression fixed on some point in eternity. My own grandmother, hours before she died, spoke of seeing a woman in white standing in her hospital room.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t help but wonder if these moments are just the last gasps of consciousness\u2014or if the dying are trying to tell us something important about what awaits us on the other side of life as we know it. I set out to find answers, from readers and from experts who\u2019ve experienced and studied these remarkable transitional phenomena.<\/p>\n

Like Becki Hawkins, a hospice nurse and the author of Transitions: A Nurse\u2019s Education About Life and Death.<\/i> Becki has spent more than 30 years working with the terminally ill and has been present for as many as 100 patients\u2019 deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like being on holy ground,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause a veil has opened and you\u2019re part of that experience. I feel like a midwife or a doula, escorting them, helping them to be born into their next life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becki estimates that at least a quarter of her patients have had observable otherworldly last moments. Some called out to God or reached out to something or someone unseen. Others reported visits from deceased family members or experienced rare flashes of clarity.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what happened to our reader Charles Yancey\u2019s 85-year-old father, James. He\u2019d suffered the steady decline of Alzheimer\u2019s for 16 years. Toward the end of his life, all he could do was grunt and moan. But something unusual happened two weeks before he died. After months of silence, James spoke.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to see my boys,\u201d he told his wife. She knew he was referring to the two sons they\u2019d lost years earlier. His surprising behavior only continued. Four days before he died, James looked up at the ceiling of his hospital room and commented, \u201cBeautiful. What a beautiful view!\u201d<\/p>\n

When his wife questioned him further, he said, \u201cShe\u2019s smiling at me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho? Who\u2019s smiling at you?\u201d his wife asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles never figured out who \u201cthat girl\u201d was, but his father\u2019s last days gave him immeasurable comfort. That he even spoke again was a miracle, as if he were readying himself for the next world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bible talks about how God makes us to sit in heavenly places,\u201d Charles says. \u201cAnd I think sometimes he gives us just a little glimpse of heaven<\/a> to encourage us to hold on and to be patient and faithful.\u201d A preview, you might say, of the glories to come.<\/p>\n

These profound declarations aren\u2019t necessarily the norm, though. What a dying person sees in their final seconds may simply be beyond words.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of them will just smile,\u201d Becki says. \u201cJust get the biggest smile on their face and raise their hands up. Raise their arms up. And they just lie back down and they\u2019re gone.\u201d Smiling at what so many of us have been conditioned to fear.<\/p>\n

One might argue that such moments only reveal the faith of the patient, and nothing more. But how to explain the prophetic last moments of Winnie, the grandmother of our reader Amy Hamman? Three days before Winnie\u2019s death, she was confined to her bed in a rehab facility, heavily sedated. Amy was doing most of the talking by her bedside. Then, suddenly, her grandmother became inexplicably alert.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow\u2019s Chad\u2019s baby doing?\u201d Winnie asked.<\/p>\n

Amy was stunned. Her son Chad\u2019s girlfriend was indeed pregnant, but nobody had told Winnie a word about it. The couple wasn\u2019t married yet, and the family feared the news would upset an already frail Winnie. Amy changed the subject. But her grandmother persisted, agitated.<\/p>\n

\u201cChad\u2019s baby girl,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was there in the delivery room. He cut the umbilical cord. We were all there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four months later, Winnie\u2019s prediction came true. Chad and his girlfriend had a baby girl and Chad did cut her umbilical cord, with the family gathered at the hospital. Amy still can\u2019t explain how Winnie had found out about the baby and knew the child\u2019s sex even before Chad and his girlfriend did. \u201cIt was almost like she was being shown the future,\u201d Amy says. As if God were reassuring her.<\/p>\n

What causes these strange changes in someone at the end of their life? Are the reported feelings of joy and peace<\/a> a side effect of palliative care? Dr. Karen Wyatt, a hospice physician and the author of What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying,<\/i> has a different theory. The body, with all its ailments and limitations, is breaking down, she says. Not the soul.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dying become so beautiful, with this glowing light from within that you can see in their eyes and in their face,\u201d Dr. Wyatt says. \u201cI think it\u2019s the soul just shining forth as the body is dissolving away.\u201d<\/p>\n

That could explain the greater clarity, the visions of heaven, the words of wonder, the ecstatic facial expressions. One editor here told me that his aunt started singing, singing quite beautifully, as she passed. In those last days and moments, maybe the soul is finally taking over. Perceiving what those trapped in earthly bodies simply cannot. And what they recognize isn\u2019t something to be dreaded, but embraced. A mystery, yes, but an exquisite one. Even Jesus spoke as he died\u2014\u201cFather, into your hands I commit my spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

I certainly felt my own fear of death<\/a> diminish after talking to those closest to it. My grandmother\u2019s woman in white, James Yancey\u2019s \u201cbeautiful view,\u201d Winnie\u2019s foresight\u2014together they add up to a message from the dying to the living. A message that those who work in end-of-life care say has fundamentally changed their views on death. Becki Hawkins, for one, says she has \u201cno fear of death whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about the horror of death, it\u2019s the moving forward,\u201d she says. \u201cThe actuality of stepping into that light they\u2019re talking about. Stepping into that space that they\u2019re reaching for. To see those people again who have gone on before. And to know that you\u2019re moving on. You\u2019re going home.\u201d<\/p>\n

It might even make you say, \u201cOh wow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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