Death is But a Dream | An in-depth Interview with Christopher Kerr
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Dr Christopher Kerr is a palliative care physician, a Neurobiologist and a researcher. He is the author of “Death is but a Dream - Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End”.
In this interview, he talks about his research and experiences with patients at the end of life, their powerful dreams and visions that bring comfort and meaning to the dying process.
Content:
00:00:24 Introduction
00:01:44 How did you become a hospice doctor?
00:03:06 What inspired you and your team to get involved with the research and expectations?
00:08:19 Dreams, hallucinations, states of delirium?
00:10:46 Is there a distinction between visions and dreams?
00:11:18 What are the effects of NDEs on the patients?
00:15:47 What are the themes that you get in the dreams and visions mostly?
00:20:42 How do children and their parents cope with the dying process?
00:26:36 How willing were the patients to get involved with the studies?
00:36:52 “We Die as We Live" - how true is that saying?
00:39:23 Love
00:42:10 Soothing end-of-life dreams or the truth?
00:48:35 Did the death of your father shape your life or career?
00:58:50 Terminal lucidity
Credits:
Interview: Jens Rohrbeck
Editor: Werner Huemer
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I will never forget one of my mother's last words on her deathbed in a hospital: "My mom is here..., and I am seeing her! Then, at dawn, very animated, she told me: "Today we are going home."
This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
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So very AWESOME !!!!!
Back in 1975 my grandmother lived with us. At that time I was just 15 years old. On one October day a week before halloween, I heard my grandmother tell my mother she was going to die very soon. Now she was NOT sick at all. Walking around making soup and baking pies and doing things grandmas do. As I was sitting in my kitchen doing my homework I heard my grandmother tell my mother that she heard her mother call her and she was going to die and wanted to prepare my mother. My mother's respond was" please don't tell me that"
My grandmother said " I have to tell you so you will be prepared " My mother got upset and walked away, Three days later my grandmother died of a heart attack right in my mother's arms.
KNOWING is such a profound yet unacknowledged part of life.
WOW!!!
Wow
Holy cow that’s absolutely amazing. 😍
Yes this is TRUTH
My Mother & Daughter both told me when they were ready to Leave.
And my deceased grandfather told me when my twin grand daughters were coming, before she knew they were coming - years after he has already Died
Mother Nature represents the Home of Angels & they are very Actively Communicating with All of US At This Time & Date.
I never believed in Death, just Fear & Pain.
Especially when you didn’t tell someone You Loved Them Thinking you will never see them Again.
Life is But A Dream
Decades ago, I was the volunteer chef in an AIDS hospice. One young man with an incredible personality was taken off medications by his request. In no time his health status went from terminal to miraculously improved, to the point where he was discharged. I often wondered how his life turned out, if he survived, was he okay?
Recently, I overheard him as he recounted his ordeal to people seated at the next table in a coffee shop. He regained his health, went on to rebuild his life, had his own business, and looked like any other healthy, active man in his early 50's. I introduced myself, told him that I had often thought of him over the years, and our happenstance meeting was cathartic. Tears flowed. It seems that he needed the validation that the ordeal with AIDS really happened, and we had witnessed a miracle.
My mother in law was dying at home and her three sons and my two sisters in law and I were taking turns to take care of her. During her life she was a hard core atheist who didn't believe in anything 'spiritual'. During this period he used to 'submerge' and each time we all thought she was about to go but every time she 'came back'. One day when I was alone with her she told me that every time she went into that state she saw her deceased husband, standing at the opposite of a ravine, both sides connected by a wire bridge that was such a bad state, not being fit to walk on. He just stood there smiling and waving at her. She so much wanted to go there but he died in his fourties and she felt ashamed to show herself to him as an over seventy old woman and that's why she 'got back' all the time.
I told her that when we meet loved ones at the other side our appearence it is as we were in the strenght of our lives. The next morning she finally went to be with him.
A few days after the funeral my husband told me that he met her in a dream that night. When he asked how she was doing she replied: "I can only stay for a while but I have come to ask you to thank Maartje for what she has done for me."
Even now when I write down that last line tears of emotion are filling my eyes.
You said "She asked martji to thank her for what she did to her.." What exactly did she do for her???
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@@monamoore9445 she encouraged her to cross the bridge with no shame or fear and this helped her cross over to be with her loved one.
Thank you for relating this beautiful story. Anf for you understanding at the time to help your mom in law. Bless your soul.
You helped your mother in law to let go, and go with her beloved husband.
She validated her appreciation of the time and care you gave he, by appearing to your husband in his dream. If she had appeared to you to thank you, you may have thought it's your imagination.
I had dream visitations from my late husband for a while in the first year after he passed away.
Even felt him next to me in bed at times, hugging me. Waking up and feeling that the bed is warm behind where I had lain.
One night I had a out of body experiance and saw my late husband lying on his side in the bed, propped up on his one elbow.
He was shinning, as if he had a light bulb Inside him.
It's like his whole body was lit up from within. So I think he was getting ready to make the transition to the other side, maybe already in the light etc
We had a conversation, and I remember asking him if he really is alive, like survived death etc and he told me yes. This experiance was not a dream visitation, like others I'd had.
I was awake when I came out my body, but in a altered state of consciousness. Yet could still hear normal sounds around me etc. Nothing hazy, things clear etc.
Thanks for sharing your experience, beautiful ♥️
Very impressive to hear a Dr speak with authority minus the arrogance and hubris. Love his honesty, compassion, intelligence and humility.
When my mother died, I wasn't with her (abroad), suddenly a fire alarm started and strangely I wasn't able to switch it off. One hour later I've got phone call from my son about this tragic event
I believe that dead people contact with families to give them some clues about reality!
When my mom passed, I arrived back at the hospital and met my brother who had sort of taken up shift after me, and as soon as I sat down in the lobby next to him, the elevator doors kept opening and shutti0ng, my brother said "thats mom" in a half joking way. It stuck with me and I've wondered, but he doesn't even remember saying it. One of the hospice workers told me I should reach out to her friends to visit her (she was sedated) prior to her passing because often, they need that to cross over. Sure enough, I called a friend of hers, her friend showed up and said a prayer, and she passed at that very moment the prayer ended, according to my brother.
I'm a cna, have volunteered with hospice and have been doing this type of work for over 20 years. I can't even try to remember how many patients I have helped pass. I'm also a med tech and have helped the patients pass over and made them comfortable during their life process
SherryJ; thanks for your contribution to society! ❤
You are some of the best people I've ever met.
We'd love to hear about any experience's you've had with this topic if possible!
Thank you for caring for them, from uk
So interesting! My mother was in a nursing home and seemed to be doing well when she started talking about dad coming to visit her (he had died four years earlier). A few weeks later she died. I had no idea it was common for these experiences to happen weeks before death, even while the person seems to be doing well.
This happened with my Dad as well. Was a few weeks before his death and before his health took a turn for the worse.
In my professional life I had the privilege to have contact with palliative care physicians. One of whom had such strong compassion and sense of humanity for his patients that the memories still move me.
Listening to this reminds me of a pilot flying a commercial jet aircraft with lots of people and flying into San Diego. The plane suffered catastrophic mechanical issues and the plane was going to crash as it was unresponsive to the controls but the pilot bravely and professionally worked with the tower to follow all the practiced procedures to regain control of the aircraft, even though it was apparent to all that nothing could be done, but the pilot never gave up trying and the transcripts of his conversations with the tower were later released after the crash over San Diego where all the passengers and even others on the ground were killed, but the last final seconds of the transcript were withheld for many years. Many years later, the final few seconds of the pilots words were released, and just before impact, the pilot simply uttered one final word, “….momma!”
I hope that Dr. Kerr's humane and compassionate work will bring about a revolution in normalizing what we all one day must face. His wisdom and intelligence shine a light upon end-of-life care and poignantly remind us of our most important offering - simply being present with another and honoring them during the profound mystery of the dying process.
Thank you, Dr. Kerr.
“Death is but a dream “ but I have watched hundreds of NDEs and from what I’ve gathered is is that this physical mortal life seems like the dream and the other side seems like reality… according to them everything seems way more defined and incredibly clear… like a ultra high definition 4K television, but even way more clear than that….
Yes. Once we transition-- this physical life becomes the dream. The afterlife is the real world.
what did you gather on hospice care?
Okay Now I am afraid of being abandoned to fie alone.
What an interesting interview! Thank you. My mother, who had Alzheimer's, commented a few times before she died (even without remembering who we were anymore) about the visits her parents paid her. The most extraordinary thing was that one day she told us that her brother (who had died a few days before, without her knowing) had come with her parents to see her.
Also my aunt (my father's sister) who was in the hospital completely lucid, commented (the day before she died) when I arrived to visit her, that my father had been there to visit her too (although he had died 3 years before).
This reminds me of a wonderful short story by Tolstoy called The Death of Evan Ilych, about a dying man who had lived a wretched life with all the wrong values, and went through torturous remorse, but then had visions that induced incredible bliss and a feeling of being loved unconditionally and forgiven. It is my favorite short story to this day.
Wonderful book.
@@artiste335 what’s the name of it?
This was helpful thx
As a Ontario R.N. for 27 years, most of my career was as a palliative care nurse...I agree 100% that care is not wholististic. We need to do better and tyvm for being part of the much needed change! One thing that NEEDS to be addressed is our MAID policies. Patients with cancer are often not able to determine what their cognitive status will be 3 months down the road and although they qualified for assisted death initially, unless they are able to sign minutes before assisted death...they're left to suffer a natural death. There shouldn't be a painful death in today's day in age, but many practitioners fail their patients. It's criminal and truly heartbreaking. I have always made pain control a priority. Another thing I believe is that preparing family of possible events ie. Hallucinations, changes in personality well in advance of impending death is very important. But, also discussing whether or not to "snow" the patient and when is important. Nobody should need to go through mental torture when medications are available to keep the patient contented. It's inhumane to allow suffering, whether it's pain or mental in nature.
I have to tell you that too much pain control can rob a patient of their most precious gift: clarity of thought and expression, and hence the ability to communicate with loved ones things that matter enormously. My late husband was slapped with Fentanyl patches every three days, even though he never had pain during his last months. Fentanyl is an opioid and highly addictive, and is 50-100 times more powerful than morphine! The medical profession turned my husband into a drug addict, vague, with stumbling speech and no concentration. I confronted the staff of the hospice with researched info about this, and they agreed to reduce the fentanyl gradually. It made a huge change. By the last few weeks, he was on only a very low dose of morphine, and his mind was clear and as agile as ever. His speech was normal. Just be aware, doctors and nurses, that your ideas of “comfort” and “pain control” may be as much to “keep them (patients) quiet” and undemanding. Easier to care for a zombie, right? But that’s not good care. Real pain, necessary alleviation is one thing. But repetitive administrations of unnecessary and addictive drugs must be stopped! You are robbing patients of all quality of life by altering their brains. Read, learn, think!
We are multi dimensional beings …..
Body dies , soul continues on….
Yes, we are also God´s children and our home is in heaven with Him. imo
Consciousness continues on, the body and dimensions are virtual
Absolutely.
*_«As a man shedding worn-out garments, takes other new ones, likewise the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others that are new.»_*
I believe this as well.
Being with my Dad in his last weeks, day, hours was filled with profound experiences that are hard to put words on. Enlightening, to say the least.
I felt a surge of empathy, sadness, compassion for you. I am about to go through your experience. Have you written about this anywhere, like Quora, or a youtube video etc? I’d love to know more about you call enlightened. I am in my 70’s, my life partner is dying at home in bed at this stage.
I wish you all the best Crazy Duck x
I was a nursing assistant for many years and some deaths were actually amazing. One fella who missed his wife so much was on his way out but I kept talking to him, telling him to go to his wife. After a few days with his eyes closed, he opened them, looked up with the biggest smile. He then went back to sleep and passed away later.
MY WIFE JUST DIED A FEW WEEKS AGO. SHE WAS TAKEN CARE OF BY HOSPICE. SHE SAID SHE SAW FMLY WITHIN LAST FEW WEEKS BEFORE HER DEATH. WHEN I GOT UP. WENT TO LIVING ROOM WERE HOSPICE SET HER UP WITH BED ETC. I KNEW SHE HAD DIED. SHE HAD A HUGE SMILE ON HER FACE. AND SHE WAS 75. ALL HER WRINKLES ON FACE WERE GONE. SHE LOOKED ABOUT 30 YRS OLD. I WISH I WAS THERE. BUT SHE WAS HAPPY. PEOPLE CAME DOWN TO BE WITH HER. WOW NO MORE PAIN. SHE IS IN GODS HANDS. I TOLD HER NIGHT BEFORE. DONT BE SCARED OF DIEING. U WONT FEEL IT. AND LOVE WILL SURROUND U AND FMLY. OH I ASKED HER. TO BE THERE FOR ME WHEN I DIE. AND I ASKED HER TO WEAR A SHORT MINI SKIRT FOR ME. HAHA SHE LAUGHED. THANK U ALL
Sorry for your loss, but the future looks bright... when you will be with her again!
It sounds like you were blessed to have each other and will be again. In my experience if you are asleep when a loved one dies, your Spirit takes them to their next home and then returns to your body. You must keep talking to,her as if she is in the next room. You have some lessons to learn without her but if the opportunity comes to marry again, I am certain she would want you to with her blessing. Namaste 🙏
I love your energy and
humor - humanity
love your comment, it put smile on my face and tears in my eyes, all at the same time. i can imagine the moment you cross over, she is waiting for you, in her mini skirt, with smile on her face, “you see i have this skirt just as you like it. “ blessings
What a wonderful discussion! It's so encouraging to hear about Dr. Kerr's research and the beauty and healing that can be found in death. I am a big advocate of palliative care. To me, this is holy work you all are doing. Thank you!
"Visiting patients" ? that's old school.. nowadays the sick patient have to travel to the doctor 🙂
I wish they'd knock off the pooh pooh language where they dance around everything so as to not say certain words that might offend atheists.
this interview is so moving. i am so incredibly impressed by the quality of the content from Thanatos TV channel. i am never disappointed.
The person smelling their mother's perfume... THAT's a visit from her mother. When I was little, I went to boarding school in England. My mother was in another country and my aunt was my guardian. She died at the beginning of my second year in school. One day, I walked into my bedroom there (shared with a dozen other girls) and I could smell my aunt! She had a very distinctive, rather lovely and also comforting smell. I turned the room upside down (going to every girl and asking if they had talc or shampoo or whathaveyou) to see if I could locate/discover the source. A bit later, I realized that she was visiting me. She was the sort of person who took her responsibilities VERY SERIOUSLY. I felt her presence for the next 35 years ... until my mother died ... and replaced her. I have ALWAYS had a sense of not being alone.
Beautiful.
One night, I smelled my grandmother's perfume.
It's very old. "White Shoulders."
I'm not even sure they've made it in years.
I've had little whispers of different scents associated with different deceased people over my lifetime, but they slip by fairly quickly. Seconds.
My grandmother's perfume that night?
At LEAST 40 minutes.
They watch us❤
I personally took care of my father and 3 years later my brother . Strange enough I knew what to do as far as making the transition a more relaxed state . Not exactly sure I knew , but I JUST KNEW.
I love that. The way a mother knows what her baby needs. (The connection we have through Love).
Thanks very much for interviewing this doctor in such a sensitive and appreciative manner. Medicine has become so “organ” based the whole body much less the whole person seems to hold little interest in many specialists. Seems like some sort of miracle that Dr. Kerr was spared the career of a cardiac interventionalist!
Thank You so much Dr. Chris, for your compassion. Just today I was speaking to my own doc. about the value in having a job that is rewarding in other ways than monetary. I am sure there is still food on your table even though you didn't become a brain surgeon.
At the very least, what you do is so much more valuable to you by now and that you must be very satisfied in your work.
I know there is a heart or consciousness at the center of it all. I know that hospice work has more value than you can possibly imagine because what we do here does matter.
I have a very long drawn out story that spanned 2 decades. A battle with my own demons perhaps. It led me to having a really strange NDE (heart attack) that was quite disturbing but there was underlying hope there as well. I don't know what will become of me but that experience changed me in so many ways. It wasn't no dream. I have to think that I wouldn't have come back if there was no hope for me.
Getting old is nothing like I was expecting.
Thanks again,
As a person who used to be "skeptical" about these things, I can tell you I have had several experiences of Lucid Dreaming BUT they were a MUCH more vivid than my current waking consciousness. I actually spoke with two deceased Uncles during my Lucid Dream state - and they were not mere tricks of the mind - they felt very much there with me! I do not even want to call them "dreams" because my dreams are often blurry and hazy and bizarre BUT my lucid states are more akin to an altered state of consciousness and they are SUPER real. In one such experience I visited some distant city and saw lots of people who noticed me and we communicated. It was like a scene from The Matrix. So i'd say, keep an open mind!
I too add a few lucid dreams experience and I agree with you that they are more real than our walking reality and that's why I think people having NDE are actually having lucid dream but they don't know it's a lucid dream experience because they never add it.
You should test the idea that your Lucid dreams are reality. Like how nde sometimes people see or hear things that they could not possibly know about. To erase all doubt this is the most important evidence.
@@helderalmeida2790 what is a lucid dream?
I feel we have an opportunity to prepare for death every time we go to sleep. This may be exactly like the real death experience so we should practice and prepare by visualizing and feeling our greatest wishes fulfilled before sleep, then we go directly to the heaven we create or believe in. Just my opinion. Great interview 👍
Yeah......only difference is when you actually die you DON'T wake-up again......for ever and ever and
ever....Try to visualise that ?
Asleep for Eternity.... Scary thought ..?
Great perspective
@@2msvalkyrie529 how do you deal with that? Im having a hard time dealing with it.
“Sleep is just death being shy”.
@@madelynhernandez7453 abolish your conception of time
An excellent interview done on a ground breaking physician and researcher. Thank you both very much.
I love Dr. Kerr. He is so honest and down-to-earth. He just doesn't have the "I'm a doctor and you're not" attitude.
What made Thanos TV decide to start this channel? I really enjoy all your videos. The people seem very normal and believable whom you interview. You’ve broadened my perspective. Thanks for translating.
Great comment! You express the true human pilgrimage from the Unknown through the Unknown, into the Unknown.
I think they want to know the answers to the ultimate questions. That’s what drives them, Oh and views and subscribers.
Agreed
I have visited Hospice Buffalo several times. It is a wonderful
place. So much loving and care.
The atmosphere is buoyant with
kindness.
The facility building itself exudes calm and beauty.
Beautiful , even mystic, in its grounds. Well
done art works grace the halls.
A friendly houses cat roams the
the facility visiting the patients and guests.
Unlike many hospitals, I have ever visited , and due to my
livelihood I haves visited most all
of them in this part of western NY, though not in anyway a caregiver or clergyman.
The staff is very kind, not
business like as in most
hospitals, more family like.
It is not just a building. It sends
staff to the homes of patients who have been returned home
between hospice visits. I have
experienced this first hand as
we brought a loved one to our
home for a few weeks during a period of temporary recovery after a hospice stay. Hospice staff visited everyday and were
always accessible.
Western NY is most fortunate
to possess this wonderful place
It is a jewel in our county.
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This kind doctor exemplifies it.
Thank you for telling the truth, Dr. Kerr. That gives us a starting point for changing the system.
Thank you. I really enjoyed that. I am a nurse who always wanted to work in hospice but never got the chance.
Commenters here have stated more articulately than I the value of Dr. Kerr's work and how blessed humanity is to have someone so dedicated to understanding death and dying so that this transition can be meaningful for all involved. We have opportunities to learn from and also teach every second of time available to us in this existence. Thank you to you both for this amazing interview.
Dr Kerr is such a blessing from the Lord so encouraging and full of wisdom he is doing Gods work as a good servant even if he does not know it blessings thanks for upload
We are cells of God...in other words, we ARE God
I saw his TED talk and he is one of humanities true intrepid caring, loving doctors we have on the planet and hopefully he will continue to study this very difficult subject with his usual dignity, empathy and deep caring with all involved
This is truly excellent content & Dr Kerr & his work are so valuable & meaningful. I am very grateful to you both 🙏
I have never heard of a Hospice Doctor & I was a Hospice volunteer! Nice to learn of this! And funny that the Hospice was based in NY! ( they were setting up here in MASS!) I loved it! This was wonderful! Thank you! I learn something new all the time! 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for this video as always, I am in love with your channel and your guests and very grateful for the work you do and the change you make in the world.
We say here on Earth , that death is just a dream because comes naturally and is obvious. Actually, life is just a dream. Because we never die 😊😍
Dr Rohrbeck, thank you for these videos, you are an excellent interviewer. It’s nice when something of your own personality and life comes to light, too.
I was honored with Hospice care for veterans and was introduced to General Patton and Mussolini and his wife from a dying WW2 veteran. He carried on many conversations with them days before his death.
So he spoke Italian?
Love this channel. Thank you for helping me with my fear of death.
Death doesn't exist, is just a name we gave to this transition process, nobody dies, we live forever and there is nothing to be afraid of. The body hurts and we call it pain or hurt, the transition is unbelievable lighter. So don't be afraid 😊🤗
@@ginaiosef How do you know all this. Genuinely interested!
@@ericheuvel7864 I’d like to believe but to be frank only the dead know for sure, the unknown is scary.
Same dude i also have a thanatophobia so im calm now
I thought that this life is a Dream, and death is the reality...
Yes, life is but a dream. Death is just a name, nobody dies, we are eternal
Yep
We are eternal and all needed to make this short-lived experience. It's a mystery. But what I am sure of is that the spiritual realm is pure love and it's a relief for our souls to leave a body which has been a source of suffering
Dying is waking up to the afterlife, the spirit being freed from the body, to be reunited with God.
@@franshartman4378 except you get sent back here again. You don't stay.
thank you for this beautiful interview. even though i was always interested in these topics, i am surprised with some things that never crossed my mind before. my grandpa dying in hospital in 80s after longtime Parkinson, my mom was explaining me he lost memory, he is going back into his childhood most of the time, talking about his horse. Now i believe he was talking TO his horse :)
my family was always uncomfortable when healthy person all of a sudden “dreamt” of deceased family member. they would say, “thats not good”, especially if they call you to come over, to the point that they didn’t want to talk about it at all. death and dreaming of dead was a no welcoming topic, everybody would get depressed and ask you to talk about something lighter, like life and fun and hope. i just wish society was more ready and accepting, so that we were able to talk more about these, like people here sharing their experiences.
notion of loved ones being there waiting and greeting on the other side,was known to me before, but not the absence of those who were withdrawing love. love contemplating on these experiences.
thank you
Great guest, I wish all interviewer's were this good. Great interview.
I absolutely loved this video! Bless your soul for your gentleness, patience and empathy for the dying
Well, I thought I would click on some random talking heads to help me drop off to sleep.
Bad mistake - I chose the most (intellectually) stimulating thing I've heard in ages
I'm now totally awake & it's 2.30 am - but thank you so much anyway!
Oh wow. I'm not done with this yet but it's wonderful. I've checked out the book and will be reading it. That painting in the background is fitting. Thank you for this! Ah. Great interview!!!
Mr. Kerr is one of thee most genuine person I’ve ever seen. I love this content and am grateful for you both. 🙏🏼💚
Thank you Dr. Kerr for your thoughtfulness and kindness
I'm an avid follower of this channel. So grateful. Thank you ❤️
I saw this doctor on a Ted talk. It was really good.
Dear Dr Kerr I deeply admire you for all your work. Thank you for being in this world. I truly regret I wasn't smart enough earlier to study a field where I can provide help to people like you do.
Absolutely fascinating!! Thank you for sharing and thank God for this doctor’s mission and work.
Excellent excellent excellent conversation ! Thank you both
Actually, life is but a dream or maybe a nightmare then you wake up to the infinite wonder of life when the body dies.
What an amazing man.
I have been watching a lot of videos on death, afterlife and NDEs, I don't have a terminal illness and I'm healthy, I'm just fascinated with it for some reason. This was comforting and scientifically interesting, although I'm sceptical about a lot of science studies i.e. who's financing the study, who's behind the study. This study ties into a lot of what I have been seeing, however, some of the NDE experiences do seem a bit contrived.
Excellent video thank you.
I had a wonderful GP who became so disgusted with some insurance reps in his office 30 years ago, that he threw them out & not long after quit the profession & moved to FL!
It’s so nice to see this MD helping in a way no one else is! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Fascinating. Thank you for this interview.
The last days of my father in law he also had experiences, he also said he wasn't afraid of them. Still the doctors said it was better to sedate him because of these "dreams" etc. Now i know we made a big mistake by saying that was ok to do, for them it was easier if he died faster so the bed was going to be free for a new patiënt. He indeed died faster because of the sedation of course. But looking back they took away important experiences for him and for us.
Dr. Jens Rorhbeck is always a great interviewer.
That was beyond awesome! Thanks for posting.
Fantastic interview! Thank you!
I truly enjoyed this. Thank you.
I enjoyed this interview tremendously, thanks for doing it.
Thank you - so thoughtful and insightful.
Thank you for this wonderful, informative interview.
What a wonderful interview. I hope you continue this life changing work Dr. Kerr. This can be very healing to the families. As you stated, even those that didn't/don't understand find this to be a dynamic healing process. I personally have experienced this firsthand with my parents and other loved ones. There is nothing more beautiful than the expression of God's love. Of course, you may not realize that at the time, but a healthy healing process, no matter how long that takes will reveal the love present at that moment. I have had the wonderful experience of some family soul visitations and now have a much better understanding of the beauty of life and death. I also know a few doctors that are getting out of the health system for the very reason you stated. It's sad that the oath doctors take can no longer be served because of the greed of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. God bless you Dr. Kerr and the work you do.
When we die we wake up.
I lost my mother recently and nursed her at home until the last breath. I had all these questions asking myself what was she thinking. I could tell she was about to die four weeks before and I was right. Much of this I relate to. I’m not sure if there is an afterlife or not but even there is nothing at the end it’s nice to know our body and mind help us move along to the final moments. I will get this book
Hi, same here. Did your Mother reported Death Bed Visitors? Mum/Dad?
This guy probably gets asked the same questions over and over lol you can tell he is very passionate about the subject. What a great dude
Life is only a playground and one of many stages in our infinite consciousness.
my dreams n visions r more real than this reality, 42 yrs saved HS filled the dreams of my young daughter that passed r the best I will be with her again for eternity good vid
Fascinating and inspirational interview, right to the end. Transcending trauma; children's experiences and those of the cognitively 'different were especially interesting. What a kind and wise clinician, a rare and wonderful human being. I hope his work is taken up by his reluctant medical colleagues- his approach could inform and improve even those who do not work for the dying. Thank you for this.
Wow...what a great and caring doctor/man, great study, some answered questions and understanding of the dying process.
A very special man, thank you for the upload
Excellent explanations! Thank you so much!🙏
My dad did this 2 week's prior!! I witnessed this his last month of life he called on me☺ its amazing
Outstanding vid ! Thank you for sharing.
Amazing and stunning insights. Thank You.
Brilliant man and illuminating human being. Beautiful soul.
Intriguing and so relevant. Thank you.
Thanatos TV just gets better and better. Thx, gentlemen. I ordered Dr. Kerr's book and am reading it, it's very good.
Excellent questions, excellent answers! TY!
Wonderful interview! Very informative and uplifting 👏 🌈
Great interviewer. And great interview
great work as always
Great video, very informative.
Thank you so much for this ❤
I had the privilege of being with a loved one at the time of death. Your qestions and Dr. Kerr's respectful discussion addressed some of the questions and emotions experienced during that time that I've pondered since.
Thank you so much for sharing
Great video. I loved it...
I can tell by the 'like' that I've watched this before. But today was the day I needed it. So it came back. Funny how that happens. Thank you, thanatos. You are appreciated.
Admittedly I skipped around in the interview, and then went to his website. I'm not clear on where he comes down about the reality of life after death. My sense is that he's dancing around it, and that, in his opinion, the *dreams* which dying patients have are good for them. If the interviewer didn't press him on this point, I think he should have. There are enough veridical NDE's on record, coupled with veridical mediumship, that the matter is settled.
"where he comes down to..." He doesn't and he explicitly exempts any reference to the question from his studies and work. It didn't become all clear to me as to why they decided in that way other than simply focusing on the phenomenon per se and its/their therapeutic value for end-of-life care. I see no ill intent with that decision, but rather a fitting applying of established methods of gathering and organizing empirical data. After all, a change in mindset with the still largely opposed mainstream can only happen when complying with their methods of inquiry. Hence, I see his open-ended approach that doesn't attempt to claim one thing or the other re: interpretation as a forte, not a weakness.
@@wesboundmusic yes, open-ended approach is the key here, that many many have difficulties with. but thats what i love about him being subtle, allowing us to have impression without him shoving down absolute truth down our throats, like many others - in both medical science on one end, and spiritual worlds on another.
and to add, i personally feel he respects what you’re gonna make out of this, he doesn’t plow over listeners beliefs. he is just addressing wider audience, and our western society approach to death and dying.... yet small community submerged in NDE is missing the point. saying, “read the study” is not the way to question culture status quo.
I would love to believe that the dream is indeed a “waking” dream. Especially having freedom of movement in our Spirit/Light- Bodies… guess i need to buy the book to dig deep enuf to fully understand this lovely gentleman’s position. I agree with what he saya in the interview. Being & Presence is Blessed state. I’m in excruciating physical pain & have considered crossing on my own since my pain meds were taken away several yrs ago due to changes on Fed Subcribing Laws. prior for 30+yrs -my pain was mitigated where I was still functioning in society as a HS Sped Science teacher!
Daily I think about what death will be like. Don’t wish to trade this for something worse! Thanks and stay mavelous!!
Thanks!
Thank you.
Great interview... brought his book based on this.
Thank you Dr.
This is amazing and incredible