A hospice nurse has revealed why she is satisfied individuals see heaven and their handed family members earlier than they die.
Julie McFadden, 42, a registered nurse based mostly in Los Angeles who focuses on hospice care, has constructed a social media following of tens of millions by sharing her insights in a bid to assist destigmatize the method of dying and dying.
After virtually 20 years of working with dying sufferers, Ms McFadden says she has witnessed dozens of paranormal and religious experiences the place terminal sufferers seemingly are in a position to talk with the afterlife earlier than their very own passing.
One phenomenon she touches on known as ‘visioning,’ additionally often called deathbed visions, which is when an individual who’s dying begins to see individuals or issues that aren’t bodily current within the room.
If a dying individual experiences visioning, Ms McFadden says it often begins someplace round three or 4 weeks earlier than their dying. She says she sees visioning as a lot as 80 p.c of the time within the dying course of.
These visions generally embrace deceased relations, resembling mother and father, spouses, siblings and even grandparents, aunts, uncles, and buddies, too.
Non secular figures resembling angels, Jesus, Muhammad or God can seem, Ms McFadden reveals – as can beloved pets who’ve died. Beyond individuals and animals, visions of lovely landscapes or photos have additionally been reported.
Carefully associated to visioning is one other phenomenon, which Ms McFadden refers to because the ‘dying stare’ or the ‘dying attain’.

Nurse Julie McFadden has heard voices and seen visions whereas caring for the dying
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About one or two weeks earlier than dying, Ms McFadden reveals {that a} dying individual will generally start to look previous everybody, staring on the wall, the ceiling, the nook of the room, or someplace far off.
They typically gained’t look away from that time for a very long time. This staring is usually accompanied by the individual lifting their arms, reaching out to one thing or somebody.
In a single video she noticed on-line and uploaded by @rugersmomma1, Ms McFadden says one aged girl in hospice care will be seen having a deathbed imaginative and prescient as she tries to succeed in out within the darkness.
Explaining what is going on within the footage, which was shot through the evening, the nurse says: ‘So what’s going on in that video?
‘First off, [it’s a] traditional instance of the dying attain. Okay, the dying attain and the dying stare.
‘Most likely her staring off and visioning, as a result of this lady is speaking to somebody that we will’t see.
‘She’s clearly seeing somebody, one thing we will’t see. And she or he says “okay” within the video.’
Within the video, the voice of somebody who is just not seen within the room was additionally captured, whispering the phrase ‘mamma’.
The lady who captured the video believes this voice got here from her youthful sister who died in 2017 and she or he referred to as out from past the grave to greet her dying mom.
In one other video, shared by one among Ms McFadden’s followers, the same factor will be seen taking place.
An aged lady, who was filmed by her daughter, will be seen having a imaginative and prescient two weeks earlier than passing away.
Ms McFadden explains that the daughter mentioned she may hear her mother within the bed room ‘speaking to a bunch of individuals [but] couldn’t hear the opposite individuals.’

In a single video she noticed on-line and uploaded by @rugersmomma1, Ms McFadden says one aged girl in hospice care can clearly be seen having a deathbed imaginative and prescient as she tries to succeed in out within the darkness
From the footage, the nurse says the girl is ‘clearly actually excited that she is lastly seeing these individuals once more’ as her voice turns into extra animated and she or he raises her palms to speak with individuals not seen within the room.
Ms McFadden says that deathbed visions are ‘vital, as a result of they present time and again that dying will be peaceable’.
She provides: ‘They present that our family members aren’t struggling as they die.
‘Quite the opposite, lots of them are having stunning visions, assembly with long-dead family members, or having religious experiences in step with their deeply-held beliefs.
‘These are usually not uncommon occurrences both. Whether or not we’re speaking about visions, pre-knowledge of dying, seeing shiny lights or angels or different phenomena, a big variety of individuals appear to expertise them.’
Whereas medical professionals nonetheless can’t adequately clarify why most of those phenomena occur, they happen so typically that Ms McFadden reveals that they’re really included in hospice textbooks.
In medical and scientific texts, they’re known as both death-related sensory experiences (DRSE) or just deathbed phenomena (DBP).
Ms McFadden concludes: ‘What I additionally discover attention-grabbing is that, more often than not, my hospice sufferers who’ve these experiences know that the individual they’re seeing is lifeless.
‘They’re not in an altered state the place they assume the individual is alive and within the room, they usually’re typically simply as curious as I’m.
‘They’re alert when it’s taking place, absolutely understanding that nobody else can see or hear what they’re seeing and listening to.’