Linda Engeseth was so moved by the beauty and intensity of her father's death experience, it took "every ounce" of the fear of dying from her. 

Linda recounts the story of her father’s death:
 
“My father was in his eleventh year of Alzheimer’s disease. He was being cared for in a home. I was called at 3 a.m. one morning and told to come as quickly as possible because he was dying.
 
As I sat by his side, my father rolled over in bed, looked at me directly in the eyes and said, plain as day and as if he was perfectly lucid, ‘I’m dying, and I’m scared.’ He had not spoken that clearly in years.
 
Dad then laid back down. He stared at the ceiling in complete wonderment, like a child at Disneyland. He said, 'Isn’t that beautiful?’
 
And, then he began reaching for the ceiling with both hands and said, ‘Mamow, Mamow’ over-and-over again.
 
My mother (my parents were divorced) later told me that Mamow was the name my father called his grandmother when he was a child.
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Alyson G. was unable to attend the final moments of her dying father’s life, but her sister was there. According to Alyson’s sister, their father had two very lucid moments that were astounding. 
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 “First, he had been in a lot of pain and in-and-out of consciousness but at one point he sat straight up in bed, turned to my mom, took her hand and said, 'I have always loved you.' This was remarkable considering my father never talked like that and they had a long and unhappy marriage.
 
His second lucid moment--
seemingly able to leave his painful, delusional state for just a minute--was when he called to me and asked me if she could see the beautiful garden in the room. He exclaimed over-and-over, 'It’s so beautiful.' "
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What made his comments so remarkable to her sister was that she did not know if he was on his medication when he said these things because she would often find his pills lying on the floor after she would administer them. But, even if he was on the medication, his final statements were far different from any other remarks or words he had said during the days’ prior.
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Michael Tymn decided to drive to California to pick up his mother, Margaret, for what turned out to be their last Thanksgiving together. Perhaps he knew, on some level, that she was not long of this world and hoped to connect with her again before she passed.

“My mother, Margaret, died in my arms the day after Thanksgiving 2003. She was 87 and suffering from severe dementia, the result of a number of strokes in preceding years. It is not what she said, but the tone in which she said it, that stands out in my memory.

We were living in Depoe Bay, Oregon and my mother was in a rest home in Berkeley, California. Even though she was not mentally competent and gave no indication she recognized me or my wife, Gina, we decided to drive down to Berkeley and bring Mom back to Oregon for Thanksgiving.  We had a fairly large bedroom and were able to squeeze an extra bed into it so that we could keep an eye on Mom.

​The night before she died, Mom was jabbering away constantly.  I could not make out what she was saying, as it was all gibberish, but it sounded like she was pleading with someone or arguing with someone through most of the gibberish.  After we awoke that morning, Gina prepared Mom for the car trip back to Berkeley.  I was in the process of carrying her from the upstairs bedroom down to the ground floor, one step at a time, walking sideways, when I saw her eyes roll back in her head and her head fall back a little. She apparently gave up the ghost at that time.  

In retrospect, I think all the pleading or arguing during the night was one of two things: 
     
     1)     She was pleading with deceased loved ones to help her leave the body; or
     2)     She was so afraid of dying that she was arguing with them, telling them that he didn’t want                    to leave the body.”

Perhaps Margaret was afraid, or perhaps she was arguing for just enough time to see her son the morning before her death. Communicating with the unseen is very common in the end of life as are utterances that sound like gibberish or may be confusing to loved ones. 

One thing is for certain; Margaret is now free of her dementia, the restrictions of her body and any pain she may have felt.  For Michael and Margaret, the synchronicity of being able to see one another before Margaret’s passing, was a beautiful gift to both of them.

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