I’ve heard death explained in many ways.
Some fearful, many hopeful
But I’ve never quite heard it explained thus
I hope death feels like…….
Being picked up from the back seat
And carried to my bed half asleep,
Where tucked in, and eyes closed,
I can hear those who love me,
Talking through a cracked door
Isn’t that quite beautiful ?
Wonderful John, just wonderful.
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DeleteIt is, very much so.
ReplyDeleteA nice comforting thought
DeleteOh, yes, drifting off with loved ones close by. I'm sure that's the sort of death we'd all like. Hope you're feeling a bit more settled today. xx
ReplyDeleteI will share my story when I can HH
DeleteComforting!
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DeleteSafety, security and love. What a great description. Jean in Winnipeg.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a kind of faith we all subscribe to Jean
DeleteNicely put John. Jean in Winnpeg
DeleteYes. Beautiful
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DeleteThis is beautiful John. My Mum recently passed away and I hope this is what she felt.❤️
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I’m so very sorry robin , hearing IS the last sense to go, so it makes sense
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DeleteLet's all hope that is the experience.
ReplyDeleteWe won’t know until we go, it’s a nice thought, and I’m going to try to make it so
DeleteI remember being carried from the car and tucked into bed and it is exactly that feeling of safety, comfort, and love.
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We regress to our childhood so it makes sense to me
DeleteIt is lovely, I hope it's that way for my Mum.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too
DeleteOh, yes ... safely home, carried in arms that love you and that you love. I remember that from my early childhood, too.
ReplyDeleteWishing you all peace and happiness.
Hugs!
I never remember that feeling, though I had a sense of it when I was in a surgical theatre
DeleteI worked in the OR (surgery) for a couple of decades and held the hand of each of my patients as they went to sleep under anesthesia. Many had a very tight grip and I was glad to be with them.
DeleteHugs!
It is lovely and I hope it's true.
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DeleteThat is beautiful. I hope it is like that! We all fear death because of the unknown. Cali
ReplyDeleteI don’t fear dying , I fear missing my life
DeleteGiven a choice, this would be ideal.
ReplyDeleteWouldn’t it just x
DeleteI hope I will just go to sleep in my bed and not wake up like my first husband did. Gigi
ReplyDeleteIt feels a bit unfinished for me, I want a neat finish
DeleteMy mum did the classic 'reaching up for something' before she died. I hope it was a loved one picking her up from the back seat. x
ReplyDeleteI’ve seen it many times
DeleteIn "Go In Peace" by Sam Baker (singer/songwritier) - Go in peace, go in Kindness, go in love, go in faith; Leave the day, the day behind us; Day is done, go in grace; Let us go into the dark not afraid, not alone; let us hope by some good pleasure, safely to arrive at home; Let us hope by some good pleasure, safely to arrive at home.
ReplyDeleteThe description of death you cite is beautiful.
Love,y mona x
DeleteI've just listened to this wonderful song on You Tube, having never heard it before. Thank you, Mona!
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjYSHLJXDI
Hugs!
Lovely.
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DeleteEveryone’s wish to leave like cited 🙏. Jan in Castle Gresley
ReplyDeleteMany people in my experience die alone, and that is almost a primeval wish, something innate , like a cat hiding away
Deletesounds soothing...... a decent wish... hope tha's alreet?
ReplyDeleteI’m reet my friend, just bruised, will share the story soon x
DeleteI agree.... lovely...
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DeleteMy childhood memory is my parents' loud drunken bashes, hew haw donkey laughter, shrieking young women. They were young parents, just having fun. But I was scared. So the cracked door and lurking ghosts, esp my dad waiting to criticize me some more] isn't appealing. As above I d like to just sleep forever. And cross the rainbow bridge to be with my first pug, I loved him so.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are okay?
I love the thought to be met by my grandmother and grandfather and all of my dogs running towards me in a meadow of flowers
DeletePerhaps death could be like this if we were able to voluntarily choose when we died.
ReplyDeleteA good point
DeleteWhat a lovely, lovely thought. XXXX
ReplyDeleteAmen
DeleteI believe it will be all that and more.
ReplyDeleteNicely put katie
DeleteThe above comment was me ! I wasn’t signed in 🥴 XXXX
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Nice to see you dearHeart x. It’s been a while
DeleteLee stop flirting xx
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Steady x
DeleteThat is perfect! Some times when I’m feeling especially anxious at bedtime, I think back to family get togethers when I was a child. Recalling the laughter and love. All of these relatives are now deceased but they are remembered and loved forever.
ReplyDeleteKippy me too
DeleteWonderful thought John, I find it comforting. My son started nursery this week and often falls asleep on the car journey home, I find it a comfort that when getting him out of the car seat he tucks his head into my or my wife’s shoulder and snuggles in to go back to sleep.
ReplyDeleteI have no such recollections from my own childhood which is quite sad I think. But nice now that I give that to my children, that’s comforting in its own way.
I’d like as peaceful a death as possible, if achieved I would be very lucky, doubly so if the last thing I saw and the last thing I heard was my loved ones. If I couldn’t have a peaceful ending, I would spare my loved ones the sight of my going.
I’ve lost all my grandparents and lost those important to my in laws, some peaceful and some awful. I am fortunate that at 33 I haven’t, yet, witnessed anyone die so it’s mostly a mystery to me and not one I’m in a hurry to know first hand. Sorry for the waffle, hope you are doing ok John. I don’t often comment but I read every post.
LJ A lovely first post, please continue to say what you think xx
DeleteHope u are ok , i dreamt a few weeks ago , in the car with my husband looking at buying a house...all wood, very european ,,another passed relative with us ...laid down in the nice bedroom took a nap , woke to hubby's voice mumma has to like it ...so sweet , i awoke happy ...for the 1st time in 14 years...that's what it will be like i believe...God bless.
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DeleteThat IS beautiful. We all miss that feeling of security.
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DeleteI hope it’s like that I lost my lovely mum unexpectedly this Monday she had been in hospital for a couple of days but nobody expected her to pass away, unfortunately for us she passed away in her sleep so we were not with her. Heather
ReplyDeleteSo sorry dearHeart
DeletePeace be with you and with all who loved your Mum, Heather.
DeleteHugs!
So sorry Heather. x
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ReplyDeleteI love this and thank you for sharing it. Lynn, Pecos, NM, USA
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful and a nice way to think of it.
ReplyDeleteYes it is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite delightful. And for Hospice workers, that's your aim, isn't it. XX
ReplyDeleteWe can only hope.
ReplyDeletePeople who have had near death experience consistently said that loved ones who have passed were waiting. I hope our beloved pets will be there since I don't want to be without them. This is quite a beautiful way of describing death.
ReplyDeleteI asked my mum to come and get me - and bring all the cats 🐈
ReplyDeleteYes, that is simply beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI truly hope that my dogs all felt this way when they died. It has always been my heartfelt wish for them, a peaceful passing when the time comes.
ReplyDeleteI've come across this before. Can't remember where. Theres a book called "Waiting for the last bus" by Richard Holloway. Might have been there.
ReplyDeleteDame professor Sue Black has the best outlook on death as far as I'm concerned. Any of her books are worth reading.
I think that is a good description...I held Pirate's hands and talked to him..and he squeezed one hand ...then left.
ReplyDeleteIt's a very nice vision of what death may be like.
ReplyDeleteThere's another which compares death to birth. Before birth we are in existence and interact with the world as we know it but after birth the world would seem to be an entirely different place. When i read it, it was said in a better way :)
Lovely description thank you John x
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ReplyDeleteLovely John . Hope the nights are not too stressful x Bernie
ReplyDeleteMy father died last month. We brought him home from hospital, against the advice of staff, and my mother, three sisters and I nursed him for four days, supported by Marie Curie carers and district nurses, until he died. He was at home, with us all sitting round him, drifting away peacefully while we took it in turns to read to him from an Enid Blyton book he used to read to us when we were children. And then he stopped breathing. Your explanation has struck a chord. x
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