WHAT DEATHBED VISIONS TEACH US ABOUT LIVING

Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind. 

Chris Kerr was 12 when he first observed a deathbed vision. His memory of that summer in 1974 is blurred, but not the sense of mystery he felt at the bedside of his dying father. 

Throughout Kerr’s childhood in Toronto, his father, a surgeon, was too busy to spend much time with his son, except for an annual fishing trip they took, just the two of them, to the Canadian wilderness. 

Gaunt and weakened by cancer at 42, his father reached for the buttons on Kerr’s shirt, fiddled with them and said something about getting ready to catch the plane to their cabin in the woods.

“I knew intuitively, I knew wherever he was, must be a good place because we were going fishing...READ MORE + AUDIO STORY 

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