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My wife and I went to see a dear old family friend today. She's 95 and in her last days, if not hours. She's as lucid as she would have been in her 30's. Crystal clear. Mind is sharp as a tack.

She said today, "Look at the angels, they are beautiful!"

I hope one day I get to see the same sight she saw today.
 
I know the pain we have when losing a close friend or loved one. However, for the ones who know Jesus, it gives me comfort to know what reward is awaiting them. This life and this world are only temporary. Our minds will not let us understand what forever means because we compare all things to time. But to know that we will see them again and next time it will be forever. To know they will be celebrating and worshipping Jesus, helps me to process the hurt that I feel. Sounds like your dear friend is ready to shed the broken aged body she has for a new where there won't be pain or sickness.
 
Had a friend once who was on his last. He told his daughter that if there was a way he would give her a sign that he went to heaven. I was on my way home the day he died and a short shower hit and a double rainbow came out. I watched as one rainbow began to dim down and disappear as the other became increasingly bright. I had a strange feeling. About five minutes later my phone rang and my wife told me he had passed. I realized then that the rainbows I saw were in the direction of his house from where I was and had shown up at about the moment of his death. I later told his daughter that she got her sign.
 
My FIL saw blonde haired babies before he left.
He will send a comforter at the right time.
I hope when my number is called that I am found deserving of an angelic escort.
Prayers for your family friend @fieldgrade
 
This whole thread is a blessing and a testament to God's provisions for our lives, both here and eternal.
Prayers sent for the family and friends; I know you're sad and miss them, but this life is just a momentary thing and you'll see them again soon and forever.
 
Goofyfoot2001 said:
I was holding my fathers hand when he took his last breath but I didn't need a sign; he was on his way to wherever the truly good ones go.
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Same with my grandfather. We were very close and I am very greatful that my mom and aunts let me have that time with him alone. I will never forget the sense of peace that filled the room.
 
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So cool to finally get to go home.
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I told my wife I was excited for our old friend. I would visit her every so often and she wasn't depressed about it, but she had broken her hip last year and had been stuck in a chair ever since so she's just ready to go home. It's like she's at the bus stop, just waiting for the bus to get there.
 
I've sat with various people as they have awaited that bus. Sometimes, it seems they are waiting for all their family to come say goodbye. Other times, it seems they are just waiting for the bus and it hasn't made all its stops before theirs, yet. It really defies words and understanding to be there, waiting with them. But, it was always a joy to me, to sit there with them and talk about what lay ahead for them, even if they weren't able to talk back. Part of me was always envious that they were getting to go home.

One of the most joyful places I've ever been is the hospice home in Winston-Salem. Never have I seen so many people at peace and happy to be with you.
 
She's been at Transitions Life Care (Hospice) in Raleigh the past week, and it is a really kind and beautiful place to await that last bus ride. On Thursday, before she became unresponsive, she was lying in bed and asked her daughter-in-law what time it was. DIL said, "Mom, it's 11:15AM on Thursday", to which our old friend exclaimed, "11:15?! I thought I'd be gone already!"
Like she had missed the bus. It was almost comical.

All the family has been in from as far away as Arkansas. I expect we'll get the call soon.

“We know not what we shall be”; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, not as a candle flame that is put out but as a candle flame which becomes invisible because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, and let in the blaze of the risen sun.

From The Weight of Glory
-CS Lewis
 
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cubrock said:
I've sat with various people as they have awaited that bus. Sometimes, it seems they are waiting for all their family to come say goodbye. Other times, it seems they are just waiting for the bus and it hasn't made all its stops before theirs, yet. It really defies words and understanding to be there, waiting with them. But, it was always a joy to me, to sit there with them and talk about what lay ahead for them, even if they weren't able to talk back. Part of me was always envious that they were getting to go home.

One of the most joyful places I've ever been is the hospice home in Winston-Salem. Never have I seen so many people at peace and happy to be with you.
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I know what you mean. When my mom died she held on till my daughter got there. Once she heard her voice it only another minute or two before she passed. My daughter was 13 at that time. She is now a hospice nurse. Go figure.

Top that off with the fact that at one time she was an ICU nurse in the same unit she watched her grandfather die in. She is one tuff lady.
 
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The hospice center in huntersville is such a nice and beautiful place. I've been to a couple hospice houses that I just wouldn't want to die in. Prayers for your family again man.
 
fieldgrade said:
She's been at Transitions Life Care (Hospice) in Raleigh the past week, and it is a really kind and beautiful place to await that last bus ride. On Thursday, before she became unresponsive, she was lying in bed and asked her daughter-in-law what time it was. DIL said, "Mom, it's 11:15AM on Thursday", to which our old friend exclaimed, "11:15?! I thought I'd be gone already!"
Like she had missed the bus. It was almost comical.

All the family has been in from as far away as Arkansas. I expect we'll get the call soon.

“We know not what we shall be”; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, not as a candle flame that is put out but as a candle flame which becomes invisible because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, and let in the blaze of the risen sun.

From The Weight of Glory
-CS Lewis
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My wife’s mom passed at that facility in Jan. Can’t say enough nice things about those nurses and that facility. Hang in there buddy, if y’all need anything, we’re right up the street. Prayers sent.
 
Miss Ruby passed into Glory at 5:30 this afternoon.

I can see her smiling face in the bright daylight. It makes me smile.

Nine days no food or water and she wasn't big as a minute. Tough woman.
 
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Schattenreiter said:
I know what you mean. When my mom died she held on till my daughter got there. Once she heard her voice it only another minute or two before she passed. My daughter was 13 at that time. She is now a hospice nurse. Go figure.

Top that off with the fact that at one time she was an ICU nurse in the same unit she watched her grandfather die in. She is one tuff lady.
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My Mom was in Hospice the last 3 weeks or so of her life, it was a lovely place and the people were exceptionally kind.
I visited her a lot and she told me she was worried about what would happen to me after she was gone. (I had been her caregiver for 15 years by then.) I told her I'd be okay, but she held on.

After a few more days I got right up next to her ear and told her it was ok to go now, because we had said all we needed to say, and I was going to be fine.

The next day I got the call that she was getting cold in her arms and legs and that I should come over there. I sat and rubbed her arms as they got colder and I told her I'd see her again at some point, and to go on ahead and be with everyone that was waiting for her. And off she went. She was close to 94 years old.
 
Prayers for all. Wow, 95. Just imagine all the changes she has witnessed in her full life. She is now with lost friends and family...
 
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You made it Miss Lily.
Condolences to all family and friend.
 
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