They report that the conversations were a great comfort after the loved one passed on. The purpose of this article is to provide tips for how to initiate such dialogue. Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley are two hospice nurses who carefully recorded and organized their experiences with the dying. Their book identifies several recurring themes in the language of those who are terminally ill. Typically, the one in transition attempts to include their loved ones in visions.
Some visions are of other loved ones who have moved beyond.
Others are descriptions of spiritual beings whom they attest are there to help them with the transition. Sometimes, the visions include distant, even unknown places. However, attempts to describe these places tend to be impossible for the ill one to describe adequately, unless what they describe is of a place to which they have traveled in the past. What is common in both experiences is a sense of awe and wonderment in the detail and beauty of the places, despite not always being able to describe what it is that was seen. Although similar, there are important distinctions.