On July 26th, 2007, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Dr. David Dosa…a true story about Oscar, the 2-year-old cat that was providing companionship to dying people in Providence, Rhode Island dementia ward. But more than that, Oscar has an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to […]

Marlene, thanks for passing this along: In a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 am, regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to […]

This is the story of Jeannine, the daughter of a terminally ill father who dies while she is in the hospital giving birth. Her family does not want to tell Jeannine the bad news while she is in labor so they decide to wait until she and the new baby are resting comfortably from their […]

A Professor in London has been investigating the phenomenon of visits from deceased loved ones or visions of a heavenly realm and he has now been able to build up a tentative picture of what he believes happens in the hours before death… He says that often the first thing those close to death experience […]

A GP from New Zealand went to the aid of a golfer who suffered a sudden and overwhelming heart attack. As he was going to help, he saw what he described as a white form, which seemed to rise and separate from the golfer’s body. … Or how about the case of Diane Smyth, from […]

There remain many deathbed encounters that defy easy answers. … Linda Jacobs’s experience is typical. Her father was terminally ill at a Manchester hospital, but as the family gathered around his bedside for what they believed was his last night, he became increasingly alert. “’He kept saying, ‘Move out of that smoke’,” says Linda. “He […]

The doctor was halfway through his night shift when one of his patients began to behave in a most peculiar way…he could see him slowly regaining consciousness and becoming increasingly alert…as if he had regained his energy. Yes, Rolf was staring intently at the foot of his bed…and then he started talking to an invisible […]

Terminally ill patients sometimes speak, or claim to have spoken, to people who have already died. Or they see, or have seen, places not presently accessible or visible to you. Yes, they may hear the voice of a deceased relative…sense their presence or appear to see an apparition…feel their touch and sometimes even smell their […]