Hi Rick,

I'm sorry to hear about your sister-in-law.  But this is fascinating about the little girl, and it's remarkable that you were able to get more validation about it by finding the photo and then asking about it.  Otherwise, you might not have found out about Uncle Steve having the same little girl visitor.  I wish it were possible to hear more of his description of her.  I wonder what it was about her that he describes as a fairy.  I also have to wonder why they both would tell her to go away.  It would seem to me that any afterlife visitor would be able to project PUL to comfort the patient.

Vicky

Thanks for the kind thoughts.  The "fairy girl" description included wings from Uncle Steve.  I don't have any more details than that.  When someone is in the last stages of cancer you're lucky to get that much description.

Another interesting phenomena that occured was at the funeral.  I've been practicing the "feeling love" excercises from Bruce's book so I've been really sensitive to that energy vibration.  I was a pall-bearer for the funeral and at the end of the service as we turned to take the casket out of the church, in front of all the friends and relatives,  I felt a wave of "love" directed at the casket that moved me to tears.  There was no feeling of sadness on my part just awe at the love that she generated.  Made me feel really small.  She was a special education teacher and helped a lot of families with down syndrome children.  The appreciation for her work was very deeply felt.

Hey Rick, actually with regards to this little "fairy girl". A relative of mine whom passed away from lung cancer two years ago had a very similar experience a few days before she died. She kept saying that there was a little girl in her room with bright blonde curly hair. She kept saying that this little girl was there to take her someplace, and that she was her guardian angel. My grandma had also heard "bells" in the room a few hours before she fell into a coma. There were no bells in her room...

PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

Hi Rick

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I felt the same way at John's funeral - the feeling of love that I experienced from those present told me that he touched many lives.  (On a lighter note - one of my close friends told me to stop looking so "radiant and joyful" - it wasn't right to be that way at your own's husband's funeral!  )

A few weeks before John died, one night I walked past the bedroom Isaw him suddenly sit up and look around the room and watched as his eyes seem to follow "someone" walking across the room.  When I asked him about it he said that he thought it was me in the room - but then he was a skeptic and didn't believe in life after death.  I'm sure he saw something as he had a look of awe on his face.  Before he died, while in a coma, I was able to explain to him what he would be going through.  He seemed restless at times so I believe that he heard what I was saying. 

My views on death have changed enormously since then and I now view it as a "joyful" experience for those who pass over.  And for the ones left behind?  If we help them in their passing we can only look at it as a positive experience, one that will sustain us for the rest of our lives - this is what I told my three teenagers as they helped looked after John. 

Good to see you back, Rick

Love
Irene

What comfort must that bring to the ones departing.. Normally at a funeral where I'm supposed to be sad, I'm not. Even the one from my brother I wasn't sad.
The times I've been sad was mostly on funerals from others, specially one from the wife of a collegue at work. I knew he didn't believe in anything after death, wanted to share the knowledge I was given by my brother, but he refused to accept it..
I was sad, really sad because of his grief, his pain, because he really was still in love with her.
His wife was probably relieved, she had gone through an awful time having cancer..

I still hopethe seed I gave him will be planted one day..

Rick,

My condolences.

Your post reminded me about an article I read several years ago about hospice.  The reporter was sitting at the station nurse's desk in the wee hours of the morning.  Another nurse walking by casually mentioned that she had seen "the children" going into the room of one of the patients.  The station nurse responded by saying she would call the patient's family right away.

The reporter thought it unusal that children would be wandering around in a hospice at such an hour and asked the station nurse to explain.  The station nurse explained that some of the other hospice nurses could see these children, and some could not.  But when the children entered a dying person's room it was an indication that this person would die very soon, and so the family would be called immediately.  She further explained that once the children entered a room they would engage the patient and encourge the person to join them in playing games.  Once out of body they'd play children's games, waiting for family members to arrive.  When the time was right these children would escort the patient out of the room.

Helpers, in my opinion, are always present at a person's passing, always.  Their task is to make the transition from this world to the next as smooth and easy as possible.  Sometimes these Helpers are a group of nonphysical people who present themselves as children, like the ones in the reporter's story who were 'working the hospice.'  And, like the little girl you describe in your post.

Rick, thanks for sharing your experience,

Bruce

Bruce Moen wrote on Sep 1^st, 2006 at 9:55am:


Hi Bruce, I found it interesting what you said..."Sometimes these Helpers are a group of nonphysical people who present themselves as children..."

Are you saying that Helpers can decide how they want to appear to people?  I guess I just never thought of that.  If this is so, what is the purpose of appearing as children to so many different people?  Is this a very common type of Helper?  Like I wondered in my above post, I wonder why the two people in Rick's stories at first told the child to go away.  Maybe they understood the implication of death and wanted to try and postpone it as long as they could.  But I would think the appearance of any Helper would bring nothing but peace and comfort. 

And yes, it is very comforting to know we will always have Helpers during transition.

Love, Vicky