When Goodbye is a Gift, Mysticism, reading, forums, Numerology, Sun Signs, Divination

Posts: 5118 · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:36 pm

With his life ebbing, two miles beneath the earth's surface, Martin Toler, Jr. took what precious little energy he had to scribble a note to his loved ones. Toler, who died in the Sago Mine incident last week, turned his finals thoughts to those closest to him: "Tell all - I [will] see them on the other side..." "It wasn't bad, I just went to sleep." And at the bottom: "I love you." In reaching out to his family through the darkness, Mr. Toler also touched many of us.

I have often sat by the bedside of dying people with their relatives close, waiting for those "last words." The threshold between life and death imparts poignancy to the utterances of the dying. Some believe the veil between this world and the next is thinnest at this time, that we can somehow penetrate the mystery of death through their experience. Perhaps those closest to death can tell us what we long to know: What is this mystery we call death? And, knowing that death is inevitable, what do they treasure most?

Posts: 2640 · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:11 pm

When my grandfather passed, he was in a bed next to the nurses station. My mother, grandmother(his wife) and I were in another state. I was awakened by my grandfather, he said that he was saying good bye for a while. He said he loved me. The phone rang. It was early in the morning. Mother was told he had died.
I was given a great gift and value it to this moment and will continue to do so.