Sebastian Junger

Sometimes it's your father.

Sometimes it's a friend who died decades earlier.

Sometimes it's someone that you might not even like very much, but the dead come to receive the dying in the way that my father did.

You know, my mind, I'm like, I don't know, you know, like,

I get it.

You give everyone LSD and they all have hallucinations and the dying brain produces hallucinations.

But it's sort of odd.

Like, okay, you stir up the memory banks of the brain when you die with the gamma and all that stuff.

So, all right, so suddenly I'm five years old and we're playing by the swimming pool.

Now suddenly I'm camping with my buddy at 12.

Yeah, there's a whole array of memories.

That's different than dad showing up.

Like dad showing up saying, come with me into the afterlife.

That's not exactly memory recall, right?

That's something else, right?

And then I started talking to hospice nurses.

And it's a super common experience.

Older people, people dying of cancer in their last days and hours, what are they doing?

They're having conversations with people in the room that no one else can see and

They're having conversations with the dead who are clearly there to take them.