Angels

We were visiting our friend who is dying. As I stepped into his room I could sense a profound peace. He told us that he feels angels all around him. As we described in our new book A Mother's Final Gift, my mother was comforted and guided by angels throughout her dying experience. Death truly can be so beautiful and it is such a comfort to know that we are never alone, especially in this great transition of death.

Living more fully and joyously

Today a very lovely woman named Clare came to talk with us. She loved our book A Mother's Final Gift and wants to help us get it into the hands of more people. Her passion in life is conscious end of life care. We talked about the problem of DOD, denial of death. Perhaps many of us have DOD to some degree. We see a very elderly person just barely able to get around and we think, "Oh that won't happen to me." We hear of people dying of cancer or being killed suddenly in a car accident and we compassion for them, but again are in denial that that could be us. Once in a workshop in Hawaii a young man with AIDS was close to death. (this was before any treatment had been found for AIDS)  We had him come into the middle of the circle and we were sending him healing light while our musician Charley Thweatt sang to him. At the end of the song he looked around the circle at all of us and remarked, "You are looking at me like I am having an experience that you will never have. Each one of you will have this experience of dying at some time. It just happens to be my time right now." I often reflect on his words.