My condolences to you on losing your friend, George.  I am curious, what were you doing at the time this happned?  Were you asleep?

Hey george stone,

I think that it's totally plausible that your spirit was there to help your friend in passing... (Also, it's plasusible that it could've been a helper/guide taking on the image of "you" as a way to welcome him to the otherside comfortingly. Either way, it "did" help ease his transition into the higher planes and was therefore successful.

As I've posted earlier... A relative of mine (alive) was there in spirit helping his Grandmother make the transition over to the light... Apparently she had too much fear built up inside of her, as such, he became  a sort of guide to her as a way to help her with the transition.

I view this "transition" as the butterfly effect... We crawl into these cocoons as humans, then when our time comes... we burst out and fly away. If I look closely I can see a lot of parallels between our intimate natural surroundings and our spiritual higher awareness... It's "uncanny" sometimes.

My condolences go out to you,
Best wishes,
PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions