Sebastian Junger

It's OK.

Come with me.

It happened to my mother.

She suddenly scowled in her last hour.

She scowled and looked up at the corner and said, what's he doing here?

And she had a terrible relationship with her brother who had died in his 50s, you know, like decades earlier.

Right.

And I just guessed I was like, Mom, that's Uncle George.

And he's come a very long way to see you.

and you have to be nice to him."

And she frowned and she said, we'll see about that.

It continues into the afterlife, right?

It goes on, right?

There's a sequel to this, right?

So these visits are not necessarily a sort of benevolent, like, oh, the dying, you know, sort of need some kind of comfort, and they manufacture a vision of a loved one to make them feel better.

It's not quite that either.

And then there's super poignant stories, right?

I talked to a hospice nurse who was taking care of an older gentleman who was dying painlessly, you know, no morphine at all, so of clear mind, right, you know, in his 80s or 70s or 80s.

And in his last, you know, 12 hours or so, he suddenly – the nurse that I talked to said that the man looked and he was like –

Barbara.