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Originally Posted by FrankStylV7  I'll ignore the obvious crap that I'll inevitably take from the locals.
The short answer is definitely. If I didn't believe in an afterlife, I would certainly do so now.
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-THREE times I have seen individuals in severe, persistent vegetative states with "hours to live" hang on for days (two weeks + in one case) waiting for relatives to travel a great distance. One was a daughter, one was a son and the third was a brother. In the case of the brother, they hadn't spoken in decades. In all 3 cases the resident passed within minutes of the relative's. |
I have had countless residents flat out tell me they were going to die...but not until Monday when their son/daughter can come by...and then thatexact scenario happens.
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-I've seen several alzheimer's/dementia residents absolutely snap out of it, able to converse regularly and with complete orientation with family and friends - only to die the next day or day after. |
I find it amazing when this happens. When a dementia resisdent is suddenly lucid, we actually call the family and let them know that this type of behavior usually happens before someone expires
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-If I had a dollar for every individual that suddenly became euphoric because a long-dead loved one "appeared in the room", only to immediately pass on, with a huge smile on his/her face......
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This also happens a lot. Just 2 days ago I had a resident tell me her "father" was upstairs in her room and wanted to know when dinner was. Her father died in 1919, she died yesterday.
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-Several times I've seen residents in pers veg states, with completely flat affects for years, that died with glorious smiles on their faces. Absolutely angelic to the point where you get chills.
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This is really the only thing that give me the chills also. It is kinda freaky and you almost feel witness to something you should not be seeing.
Aside from everything mentioned above....
I believe to have seen a deceased resident walking the halls. I was working the overnight as I like to do once a month and she walked right past me and said hello. I, literally, ran away. I thought I was crazy and kept it to myself until several members of the overnight staff came to their department head and claimed the same thing.
We have a community in Arizona that was featured on the Discovery Channel as being a "Haunted" house.
I have had piano's play themselves for 2-3 seconds at a pop.
Yeah, prepare to get ripped from the unwashed immature that frequent this dark corner of the cyberverse......[/quote]
I get made fun of by my family a lot for saying this stuff...but my peers at work and my boss also have similiar stories. It is the "accepted" unexplained. I think it is presumptuous of man to think they "Know it all", maybe there is an afterlife. I never believed in any afterlife before working in this enviroment, nor did I have a dedicated religion for that matter. I now firmly believe that there is something...I just have no idea what.