Hospice physician Pamela M. Kircher writes: “After talking with hundreds of people in the past several years, I am convinced that contact with alternate realities is the rule rather than the exception. Sometimes that contact takes the form of a near-death experience. More often, however, it occurs in the normal course of a person’s life, when they are physically well.
“People in the last few days of life are also in the unique position of being in two worlds at once. While their physical world is declining, their spiritual world is becoming more active. What usually need healing are their relationships.
“Sometimes it is difficult for people to allow themselves to die because the family members are so attached to them.” This may be why, Kircher concludes: “several people in my care have died when family members stepped outside for a moment or two. It was as if, at some level, they wanted to die alone or to save the family members the experience of being present at their deaths.
Pamela M. Kircher, Love is the Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares Her Experience of Near-Death and Dying (Awakenings Press, 2013)
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