The doctor who takes care of people who are close to death after falling ill or due to other reasons, has told about a special sign that appears a few days before death. Christopher Kerr, a doctor of hospice and palliative care in Buffalo, New York, said that dying patients often report seeing deceased loved ones who had cared for or protected them while they were alive.
dead loved ones come to visit
Dr. Christopher Kerr told that these patients were adamant that it was not a dream or hallucination. They said that they were able to see their loved ones clearly and they also understood the meaning of that scene very well. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, he said that there is very little communication between the person appearing in the dream and the dreamer, but it seems that everything has been understood. He said what I find most interesting. I have been doing this work for 27 years. That is, no patient has ever asked me what do you think this means?
Doctor Christopher Kerr further explained that dying patients knew exactly which deceased loved ones had come to visit them. He also noticed that relatives or spouses with whom the patient had difficult relationships did not come there. This could mean that someone saw their mother but not their father, or if a person had multiple marriages, only one of the specific spouses came to meet them.
88 percent got peace in their last moments
Dr. Christopher Kerr said that no matter who appeared just before the patient's death. Most of the people, about 88 percent, said that this experience was positive and it gave them solace in their last days. The daughter of a patient told that she started seeing such visions two to four months before her mother's death. He also said that he had understood that the loved ones who were coming to meet his mother would be waiting for her in the afterlife and would comfort her.
Mother appeared to many
During an interview on 'The Oprah Podcast' in July 2026, a woman named Julie told special things about the visions she had a few weeks before the death of her mother Jean. According to Julie, Jean started seeing her mother, who had died 30 years ago. She was seen sitting on a chair in the same room where both the women were present. Recalling her mother's words, Julie said that mother was sitting on a chair on the other side of the room and she was waiting for me. She wants me to know that she will be with me. Those who have researched and written about the experiences of people near death have not been able to explain where these visions come from or prove that they were real.
I also feel incomplete
However, he saw a common thread in all these near-death experiences. They used to make the patient feel complete, that is, through these meetings, any incomplete thing or problem in that person's life was solved. Christopher Kerr further said that life often leaves people incomplete. Almost everyone carries some form of incompleteness, such as the death of a parent in childhood, a parent losing a child, guilt, regrets, broken relationships, or the feeling that they have not been forgiven for some past event.
Doctors said mental or spiritual wound
Doctors and writers have called these old problems mental or spiritual wounds. He explained that there are physical wounds on the body that cannot heal after death, but these encounters often give people the opportunity to heal spiritual wounds. Christopher Kerr said on the podcast that ultimately, coming back to the family, you almost reconnect. You definitely carry with you the grief of someone's loss. You have lost people who are in your heart, and they come back to you. So this is a way of healing.
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