Each of the 640 respondents (all of whom were doctors and nurses) to Osis's questionnaires had observed an average of 50 to 60 deathbed patients—a total of over 35,000 cases

A total of 385 respondents reported 1,318 cases wherein deathbed patients claimed to have seen apparitions or phantasms

About half of the apparitions reported by the dying patients seemed to have appeared for the purpose of guiding them through the transition from death to the afterlife. One distinct observation was that few patients appeared to die in a state of fear

Age and sex showed no correlation with the phenomena of deathbed apparitions, visions, or mood elevations.

Interestingly enough, the more highly educated patients evidenced more deathbed phenomena than the less well educated, thus contradicting the allegation that the more superstitious are likely to experience deathbed phenomena.

Another interesting statistic revealed by the study is that visions, apparitions, and mood elevations are reported more often in cases where the dying patient is fully conscious and appears in complete control of his senses. Sedation, high fever, and painkilling drugs seem to decrease, rather than to increase, the ability to experience these phenomena

Some intriguing areas for additional research;

There were cases, for example, in which collective viewings of apparitions were reported by those who had gathered around the patient's deathbed

There were numerous instances of "extrasensory" interaction between patients and attending physicians and nurses; and many cases wherein observers underwent a change in their own personal philosophy after witnessing the experience of the dying person

Full report at LINK

If only master Light was here to explain it to us.

Bias_2012 wrote on Sep 28^th, 2018 at 1:45pm:


Happens in private hospitals and private nursing homes too.

I've seen it first hand.

End of Life Experiences and "deathbed visions"


In all cultures people who are dying start talking to loved ones who have already died in the days before they die. Sometime they say that they can see beautiful places in the spirit world and hear beautiful music.
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There are many cases on record with the Society of Psychical Research where the spirit visitors were seen by others at the bedside of the dying person, sometimes by several persons at the same time:

• in one well documented case a death-bed apparition was seen by the dying woman, Harriet Pearson, and by three relatives who were caring for her (Journal of the Society for Psychical Research Feb 1904: 185-187)


• in another case of a young boy dying, two witnesses independently saw his recently deceased mother at the child's bedside (Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, Volume 6 p.20 ).


Deathbed visions are consistent with and support the other evidence for afterlife. Of those who will experience conscious death, fifty to sixty percent will experience a vision of the afterlife.

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[quote]n the 1960s Dr Karlis Osis of the American Society for Psychical Research did a pilot study of deathbed visions that confirmed the findings of Barrett. His finding were:

• the most common type of vision was of people who had died before them

• the visions usually lasted a short time, five minutes or less

• the dying patients stated that the visitor had come to take them away

• it made no difference if the dying person did or did not believe in the afterlife

• most of the patients in the study had not received drugs which could confuse their minds

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In his book "Closer to the Light—Learning from the Near-Death Experiences of Children", Dr. Melvin Morse says that death-bed visions are 'a forgotten aspect of life's mysterious process' and that they can comfort and help the dying patient and the family (1993: 65).

He talks about several cases where dying children began to see visions of the afterlife during the last few days of their lives. They described amazing colors and beautiful places and relatives they sometimes had not known existed.

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The importance of deathbed visions

In his book "Parting Visions" (1994) pediatrician Melvin Morse says

• family members who know about the visions of the dying are known to spend more time at the dying person's bedside.

• spiritual visions empower the dying patients making them realize that they have something to share with others

• spiritual visions remove all fear of dying in the patient and are enormously healing to the relatives

• they can prevent burnout on the part of nurses and doctors

• if attended to they can dramatically reduce wasteful medical procedures that are often painful to the patient. He claims that 30-60% of the American health care dollar is spent in the last few days of a person's life and 'most of it is spent in useless procedures that do nothing to prolong life' (Morse 1994: 136).

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Numerous videos on the subject

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