My mother phoned just now to tell me that an elderly lady in our town died at home last night. Mom got the news from a family member who held the dead lady’s hand as she passed.
“I know you’ll be interested in this part of the story, because of that book you read,” said my mother, referring to Patricia Pearson’s Opening Heaven’s Door, a journalistic investigation of what happens as death nears. My mother told me that as the woman lay dying, she began talking to family members who preceded her in death — as if they were present in the room.
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