Melanie Hack shares healing thoughts


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 Harlow in Essex, who recalls the time she sat with her elderly father as he died. As she awoke in the darkened room, she noticed something strange hovering above her father’s body. As her eyes focused on the mysterious shape, she couldn’t help but notice a flame licking the top of the wall against the ceiling.

Diane says, “I saw a plume of smoke rising, like the vapor from a snuffed-out candle. It was being thrown off by a single blade of phosphorous light and was indescribably beautiful. It seemed to express perfect love and peace.

“I eventually switched on the room light. The mysterious light vanished and the room was the same as always on a November morning, cold and cheerless, with no sound of breathing from Dad’s bed. His body was still warm.”

Have you experienced an unusual deathbed encounter?

I’d love to hear about it…

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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July 24th, 2008 at 7:28 am