#22 “Don’t worry, Mum’s telling me how to die”
A few years ago my best friend lost her fight with cancer. Her mother had also d**d of cancer, when my friend was 21.
About an hour or two before that, she started getting very agitated and asking for some very specific things, some buttons of a certain color, a particular item of clothing, a few other things. Her sister realised that she was asking for things her mother had been wearing or had in the room when she d**d and got very upset and told her that she didn’t need them, it was ok without them. My friend looked at her and said ‘Don’t worry, Mum’s telling me how to d**’. She was seeing her long-deceased mother and thought she needed the same setting before she could d**.
I assume that it was a hallucination, she’d been having them for a couple of days at that point after her pain meds were increased, but it was very unnerving to witness and seemed different to the other hallucinations she’d been having. Maybe she really did see her mother. That moment certainly brought me closer to believing there might be an afterlife than religion ever did.
