hands an evening sacrifice. Set a guard,
Lord, before my mouth, a gatekeeper at my
lips. Do not let my heart incline to evil, or
yield to any sin."
New American Bible, Old Testament, Psalms
141:1-4, (Christianity, Catholic)
Making the motions of death, I can
say without reservation that in that moment,
I had no doubt that I was truly going to die.
Terror swept over me in this moment of
death, which surprised me. After all I'd
experienced, I hadn't realized how
frightening the final parting would be. "No!"
I screamed out to the spirit world, "I don't
want to die alone." I was dying in my sleep.
Seemingly endless, the spiraling void went
on forever, but all of a sudden there was
calm.
"In death, you will know." A voice
calmly stated. "In death you will know
things that only death can teach you."
Calmly accepting my fate, my fear had
begun to fade. "If I must die, then I will go
quietly," I said with resolution. Suddenly, an
unexplainable understanding came over me,
the knowledge of death.
Another parting soul approached, a