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How do you hope your final moments play out?

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

What helped you share that with them?

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I have had my heart crash, and I went into a very intense dream. I visualized what I reasoned to be souls
as light being cast into a brilliant coil stream.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

While working the Carnival, I was first responder to an accident that crushed an employee, after realizing I could not accesses him for aid. I kept him comfortable as possible, touched him, I learned that people slipping into shock benefit from contact.

What helped you share that with them?

Red Cross, and Military Training

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

My philosophy will allow me to be free of regrets, or hinder the casting of my light, or soul.

Wow, So many questions and so many answers to tell. Every final moment, is different for all humans. I said that, because everything depend in the upbringing of your spiritual need. When people come to the ER and they know for sure that the end is near and they are 100 % alert, a serenity take over them, is like they are submitting themselves to death. Many times, the only thing that we can do, is just hold the hands, and talk in a quiet voice, until the end arrive. You must be asking yourself, How can he do it? well, is just compassion to the human race. Final moments, is a dance, that we, all have to face, and the only way to confronted, is to take some dancing lesson, before that time arrive. Bye!!

How do you hope your final moments play out?
I hope that in my ending moments, I am surrounded by those i love, and know that after my passing, i left something personal to each and every one of them. I would rather be able to tell them my goodbyes, but even if it doesn't play out that way, I can at least arrange something to leave behind just for them.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?
No. I can say that fortunately I have yet to experience someone close to me dying. I wouldn't mourn their deaths tho because it's just not in me to do so. I see our souls and bodies much like butterflies. We crawl, we transform and free ourselves from our cocoons to become something more.

What helped you share that with them?

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?
I think that i will always be tied soulfully to the world energetically speaking, and more than likely reincarnate, if not to this plane of existance, perhaps into another. I don't believe that i will truly cease to exist. I will be at peace more than likely letting go and moving forward to the next stage, esp knowing that i will have the letters BRB on my tombstone ;)

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I'm 20, therefore I'm going to live forever.

I was at the hospice to see my godfather through some of his last throes with cancer. He could no longer speak and had gone completely bald, a polished alabaster bust with a vacant stare. But there was a subtle riot in the quiet. I think I was the only one who knew but I could see that he was still in there, raging against those failing neurons and synapses until they all burnt out and there was nothing left to adapt to life. I don't really prescribe to a universal afterlife but that parting among trillions threw the kilter on my ardent non-belief.

I have our own MrD to thank for helping me do some consolidating and qualifying of what precisely my feelings are. Years later of course, I was 15 when my godfather faded away and only able to talk about it and only to the aforementioned a little over a year ago. Basically my view is a pretty sterile one that plays neatly into the law of conservation of energy. When a person ceases their energy stays bundled together for a time preserving a temporary kind of frantic, confined consciousness. In those moments a personal heaven (or hell depending on the heft of conscience that is preserved) is achieved. This energy coalesces out of the inertia of life supported by the very conductive physical body so after that fails this "soul" will eventually disperse into the cosmos along with whatever self remains of the deceased. I like to think that in that state since awareness of anything external is obliterated, fabricated, that we "live" forever, isolated and deluded but still existing. At least I like to believe that's the case for one.

I don't think the grieving ever really see the dying. They see their thin image of the person draped over their own regrets and insecurities. I set aside any conceits of my own and I like to think that he knew that I still saw him. That alone got me through it. I held my contrition at bay so he'd know that he wasn't alone in the sea of selfish mourners.

I'm living forever, remember? I'm just going to keep heading westbound on U.S. Rout 466 until the sand runs out.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I would hope to be alone (away from people). I have very few "loved ones" and I would prefer them to have better memories of me. I would like to slip into death and resurrection slowly.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

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What helped you share that with them?

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How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

Though my life at this time does not reflect my own personal beliefs...

I would hope that I would be able to apply the words of Christ to my life..."It is finished."

My final moments like most I hope I am asleep at the time so nothing comes or goes like a light flickering out. Seen alot of other ways but I think that would be the best.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I hope it is in my sleep. I do not want the room full of people watching. I do not want to be hooked to machines. If it should come to pass that I do not pass in my sleep I hope I am able to be sedated.

I was close to passing once ....at that particular moment all I wanted was to let go...then something kicked in and I fought. Call it a primal urge.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Many, mostly family members passing for whatever reasons, most at that final moment NOT coherent. Most seem to go before their body does. So interesting it is when you are talking to someone one minute and then they are gone the next. I find it interesting how the body eventually fails.





What helped you share that with them?

I think to be there is more for the living in some cases.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

My beliefs are not going to play any part since I really don't have any. I am on the fence about it , and leaning more towards , "when your dead your dead". We are all just biodegradable matter , as fare as a soul perhaps we are just left to be energy signatures absorbed back into the universe. Not sure about our awareness either....if anyone knew for sure about that we could stop having discussions about it.

I just don't feel anything....we live on a mote of dust in a vast place so big most could never comprehend it in their brains , we are so insignificantly small compared to this vastness it all really does not seem to matter.

Depressing isn't it?

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I hope i die alone , i wouldn't want to have to endure the emotional state of anyone else present at that time . I,d like to savor the experience of crossing over , to fade accross slowly . I also hope i can leave my son with enough security , he's the only one i'd feel sad about leaving behind .

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

I watched my mum die , she was on a life support machine for a while convulsing and vomiting from her nose . Then they switched her off and told us she would die within minutes , but she didn,t she started trying to breath for her self , 6 hours later she died . The whole time i just wanted to put her out of her misery . I thought the whole process was wrong they should have just let her die in the first place . I had very little emotion about it , watching her die didn,t even make me cry . I think my hormones had kicked in , the day after her funeral i gave birth to Kai (my son ) , Out with the old in with the new . I think she was destined to die at that time , it just seemed like every thing was right some how . She knew she would die young , she kept telling us that she'd seen her funeral .

What helped you share that with them?

I think we all choose our lives before we get here and therefore our deaths aswell . She'd choosen her life and death theres nothing sad in that . The only sadness in death is loss and if you belive you'll see them again then theres no real loss .

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

I,am on a mission to perpetuate my soul as a spirit that roams the between the material plane and the afterlife . I cant wait for the ultimate adventure .

In that moment, I cannot say how I will feel or react because it will be a new experience to me. Yet, the person that I have evolved too will again change to all of the influences that will form my new true self.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

Somehow i'm curious as to what effects stating it like that will have on people, hoping for the final moment.
Anyway to answer the question, i'd like to die in a tragic accident, or do the martyr bit for the peeps i luff.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

once or twice. my uncle had a heart attack.


What helped you share that with them?

Absolutely nothing, it was sudden and violent.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

i'll deal with that when i get there, i dont know what to believe yet, and have decided i wont until i experience it myself. It'll be a new sensation i suppose.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I would like to be sleeping when it happens, or at least comfortable.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Yes, was present at my stepfather's side when cancer took him.

What helped you share that with them?

Knowing it was my last chance to say what I wanted to say to him, even though at that point, he couldn't speak.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

I think that a person's beliefs honestly don't have a lot to do with how they face death, but more in how they face life. I try to lead a good life, so I don't fear what may come in the afterlife (I do believe there is one). However, I have never had a near death experience, so I cannot say for sure that, as I near that time, I will handle the thought of it as well as I am at this moment.

I suppose that if a person strongly believes that there is a traditional (ie Christian or Catholic) Heaven and Hell, and they fear that, for whatever reason, they won't be accepted to Heaven, well, I imagine they won't handle their final moments very well.

i hope i die in my sleep as well.... old and in bed. hahaha. it would suck if it where alone... but i don't plan on that... but death doesn't exactly fit in with your plans many times. hahaha.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

Hmmm I have a couple of scenarios that would make me happy, one of which is to do the whole peacefully in my sleep thing, another is to go out in a blaze of glory taking some people with me, and lastly to die in the arms of my lover making promises to find one another in the next life. I know the last two sound like something from a movie but I am completely serious...

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Do animals count? Other than that no.

What helped you share that with them?

see above

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

My beliefs allow me to leave this existence with no regrets or torment. I see life and death for what they are and do not buy into what they are not. (:

btw awesome thread

How do you hope your final moments play out?

With some dignity, and I hope I say something very clever at the end that makes people laugh at the situation.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Yes, both parents. Mom went with tears suddenly. Dad lingered until everyone wanted him to go.

What helped you share that with them?

Trust me, I didn't want to be there, but I found I am the last person to give up on the dying. When everyone else walks away exhausted, I will sit there quietly with them 'till the bitter end.

How will your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

Actually, my beliefs tell me that I'm not going anywhere. I plan on becoming a Ghost and haunting the Vampire Rave!

Great Thread, by the way.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I hope to fall asleep and wake up on the other side.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Yes and with near-deaths as well.

What helped you share that with them?

I believe the only thing we can share at the time of death is our heart and love, even if it's a complete stranger.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

This life... is just part of the journey.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

Leaving behind something for others to remember me by and to actually be able to say my final goodbyes and to let all those that i've loved, that i always will even in my afterlife.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?
No I haven't had anyone close to me pass away as of yet.

What helped you share that with them?

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?
I believe in reincarnation and that our energies will always be lurking around somewhere and at some point whenever we are ready, we can return in physical form once again.

I just hope to reach my final moments before the day that I can't make it to the bathroom in time. Everything else is gravy.

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Seriously, final moments being what they are, I hope to spend them with people I cared for over my lifetime. And I am going to be sure that I will know I have lived long before that time arrives.

I do hope I don't spend those final moments burning to death, drowning to death, being eaten to death, pulled apart to death, bleeding to death, swallowed whole by a snake to death, freezing to death, or any combination of the above, especially by myself with no one I know.

How do you hope your final moments play out?
I would hope that I would be surrounded by loved ones, so that I have the last chance to say goodbye and that I loved them. I would hope that I would go quickly and quietly with little pain.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?
I haven't experienced the final moments of others. I have experienced the aftermath, the viewing of the body and the funeral but that is all.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?
I believe that when my time comes that I will be assisted and greeted by my spirit guides and family/friends that have past on.

id like my last moments to be fighting for those i love against overwhelming odds, and i die just as i have managed to kill the final attacker.

that would be a good death...

either that or after i spend some quality time with angelina jolie...but either one is fine.
LOL
~W~

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Sort of...
although not physically there when my 1st ex husband died this weekend on Nov 6th, I observed thru phone calls how urgent it was for him to make peace with the daughter we had together. It seems making peace with past mistakes was more important to him than worrying about anything else.
Thankfully, peace was made, by all of us, even me.

p.s. what I meant by past mistakes was how he abandoned her.

my final moment was always planned to simple, i'll snigger some and let the unknown embrace me because i know i'll see life again after i'm gifted a final sleep

many times during my life i have thought of my final moments on earth before death took away the breath of my life and i passed on to the great beyond. how i would want to spend my final moments i am not sure as many have said death is never some one plans for. but if i had to say i would want to go in my sleep so that my loved ones would not have to see me in such as state. i really dont want my loved ones to see me go through such things yes in some ways it sounds selfish. i guess in many ways i should leave it up to them.

about the only thing i am sure of is that at my funerual i do not wish for my family and friends to cry for me. i would want them to speak of the fun times they shared with me but thats me.

The only truth about final moments, is that, young people never think about that moment, and if for a cause of a tragedy, they die, you will see, a surprise face. Almost impossible to believe. I can say this, because I see it almost every week. Sad, but real.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

One of 2 ways: Either in some comical way like choking on jello or in a violent tragedy. Be it awful like murder, heroic like saving another's life, or simply accidental like a car crash.

I find the concept of dying for the one(s) you love in attempt to save their life extremely romantic but I just don't see it in my future.

All I know is dying a simple peaceful death is not my style so whatever happens I hope it's exciting lol

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

I have been in the presence of death twice.

The first was my great great grandmother. I was sitting on her bed in the hopsital helping her pick out her lunch from the menu. I remember looking up at her, she smiled and closed her eyes and that was that. I didn't really understand (heck I was only 6) so I didn't cry or get upset. It wasn't until my great great grandpa explained there would be no more tea parties with her did I finally understand she was longer here.

The second was a lot harder. My best friend's mother battled cancer for 15 years. She was truly like a 2nd mother to me and I was there sitting with the rest of the family around her bed when she passed. This time I was old enough to understand and this time I cried. She died 6 days before our high school graduation and even though she had told us just how proud she was it just didn't feel the same.

What helped you share that with them?

With my grandmother I was too little to understand any of it but I like to think that my presence in the room made her feel more comfortable.

With my BF's mom I know just us being there made her feel better. As much as it was hurting us to see her go she looked more peaceful to have all of us there.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

I haven't solidified my beliefs yet... I'm still learning and growing so I can't say for sure. All I know is that when my time comes I hope I'm ready and If I'm not well lol that'll be another matter lol

How do you hope your final moments play out?
In the arms of my fiance.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?
Yes.

What helped you share that with them?
Being related to them.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?
Some times it scares me but some times it does not scare me when I hear my fiances voice and feel him with me.

but then there is also the fact that at a very young age death was brought up to me face to face. i found my mothers mom had passed away in her sleep. i guess that is why now a days death doesn't really bother me due to the fact that i know it is merely another part of life. it is our bodies returning to mother earth to once again give life to the next generation, it is with in that thought that gives me some comfort in the fact that my death when it comes will not be meaningless that my life and my death had some sort of purpose. i know some of you will look at this and laugh but i dont care that is your loss, but that is only me.

I am a hospice nurse, so witnessing death is what I do everyday.

I hope that my death is sudden, none of the lingering dementias I see all of the time.

I am an athesist, so no dreams of disneyland await me after death.

How do you hope your final moments play out? I like many here I too would like it to be peaceful the way I like to live my life. I also live my life busy and with many adventures, so my life could end that way as well, something I don't really dwell on much. Ideally surrounded by loved ones, no matter how my flight is going.

Have you been present during the final moments of others? I am in the medical field and yes have been present during others final moments, both and adult and children.

What helped you share that with them? The youngest age I remember being with someone was at age 5 my best friend. I don't really remember what helped me be there except that I loved her. Now as an adult being with someone during their final moments is a spiritual time for me, a time when you can be with another human being sharing in their most personal transition from life to death
How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments? I believe there is life after death, I don't believe it is final only different. I don't know how I will leave this earth but I do know that I would like to leave without conflict in my heart.

I want to pass as a warrior. I see my life ending in a blaze of gun fire, not too far off in the distant future. *smiles*

i hope is a very fast and painless death for me and i dont last long ...
But then what happens from there i know it will be lot better then here on earth for the rest that are still here...

How do you hope your final moments play out?

In my sleep.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Yes.

What helped you share that with them?

Maternal bond.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

In my final moments I want to be young enough to have the opportunity to experience as it plays out but old enough to have lived a wonderful life.

How do you hope your final moments play out?

Fighting. Preferably it'll be slow. Beaten to death with blunt insruments rather than shot or stabbed. I mean, it's going to be the last thing I ever feel, so it might as well be intense, right?

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

Several times. Both my grandfathers, two close friends, and a couple dozen people I didn't really know.

What helped you share that with them?

Loyalty. Duty. The U.S. Army.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

My people have a warrior history. Though it's changed now from what it once was, I still believe it's in our hearts and in our spirits. It is for that reason I took up the warrior's path, and it is for that reason I wish to end on the warrior's path.

Come my time.. I want to say, 'I tried'.
Not for my Mum, my Dad, or anyone.
For me... No-one else.

I tried. That'll be a something, to End On.

I would like to pass on quietly and in dignity with my loved ones near so we can say our final good byes.

:)

My favourite quote:

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.... not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."

i would like to die fighting in a war and on my feet...unless they were blown off by a grenade.
its best to die doing things you enjoy but of course if you're weak and feeble or dying from age or something, you got no choice but to die in a bed.

sometimes a persons final moments make them show you who they really are.

I have a reacquiring dream that has haunted me all through my life...
I'm in a car driving and i get into a head-on collision. I feel everything too as if it's really happening. I feel as my legs are crushed and the steering wheel crushes my ribcage and bones cut through my lungs like glass. I feel my wrist break and my left arm snaps. and my right arm is crushed into the mass of my chest by the steering wheel. I feel my nose break and my teeth shatter. I feel the spray of glass on my face like hot knives slicing through my flesh. I ooze blood out of my mouth and then I wake up.

I've had this dream since I was 9. I am completely afraid to drive, and rarely do. I use my bike most of the time. Everybody's always telling me "you're a good person you help the environment" if they only knew the real reason......

I think that is what my death will be like, and it scares the hell out of me!

I would have to say that I hope that one night that I crawl my old self into bed and go to sleep and just keep on sleeping. Just nice sweet and calm. With my beliefs I believe that I will go to a plave and have a lot of things to do that will keep me occupied, busy, as well as fullfield.

I hope I die quick an easy

this guy thinks the soul weighs 21 grams. after death the body loses 21 grams.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_MacDougall_%28doctor%29

I would like for my final moments to be peaceful and surrounded by those I love. Forgive me for the clichè connotation, but dying in pain is just not too enticing.

Have I ever witnessed someone dying in front of me? No and I would like to keep it that way too.

DS it seems this is your fate and I have see it many times, it is not pretty nor is it as bad as it seems.
You can prepare, when it happens let your inner self depart from the body and you will feel nothing but warmth and a giggly feeling until you fade on.
That way you can live the rest of what is given you without fear or favour.

I have witnessed more then my share of people passing. It's never a nice thing to see or experiencece. i do think that some people pass easier then others, seeing someone pass that is in pain is a lot different then someone that passes peacefully for sure!

final moment?

as peaceful as my karma will allow

others die?

too many
13 yr old nephew brain anurism ..several
teanage friend head blown half off
best friend of 15 yrs coronary
friend of several yrs go into coma for a month till she passed
........
what helped? love plain and simple

i believe in an afterlife/reincarnation thing so it doesnt scare or worry meh it happen when it happens

How do you hope your final moments play out?

I'm not sure. Peacefully, or heroically. I suppose there aren't really any modern-day heroes but perhaps in my own small way I could help someone in some small way when I die.

Have you been present during the final moments of others?

No, but there is one person who I wish I had been there for. Cancer sufferer, 18. I missed a few chances to say goodbye.

What helped you share that with them?

Obviously I didn't get to share it, but I think the aftermath for me was a lot harder because of it.
I had no definitive "experience" to anchor my thoughts to, so it was extremely hard to even believe she was gone.

How do your beliefs apply to the way you will face your final moments?

No regrets; it's how I live my life so it's how I hope to die too.
Knowing I've carved a life for myself and done things in my own way, creating something beautiful to leave behind, maybe that will help me.
Then again, maybe it will make it harder; I don't know.

i hope that within my final moments i die quickly and painless. i've went through enough pain in this life i dnt need it when i also die

I'm sure that my final moments will involve thoughts of that blonde from 11th grade

i hope that when i do die i am with those who love me surrounding. and i hope too die in my loves arms...

Better than last time. I hate spinning into the darkness with that stupid song stuck in my head.

"This is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friend.."

Let me tell you, old age is a bitch.
After having watched so many beloved beings die over the years, I seriously do not intend to go out in that manner.

I'm already considering, given that I'm still able to do so at that age, buying an old plane, fixing it up and then flying the damn thing into the record storage tract of the local tax office while playing "Dust in the wind", "Expecting to fly" or another well picked song among that line.

None of that sad deathbed crap for me, silently waiting for my final seconds to pin me down. I'll rather make sure that my own story ends on a high note, while doing humanity one final favor.

nice Eridanus. I would definitely do the same.

The thought of going out the traditional, stoic way just depresses the hell out of me.

my back against a tree, lookin up at the sky, a bottle of whiskey and pills of my choice at my side.

having cared for others, I want to choose how and when.

to be honest i hope to die in the arms of the one i love, after ..making love

I recall bathing someone, who picked his stumps, as I turned my back...

then, as he began to bleed to death, I reached for the emergency pull, only to find it was tied up, about two inches out of my reach..

and boy-did time slow, as I held him beheath his arms, trying hard.. to reach out for that cord...