Death & Dying

By Bob Olson There are multiple factors that determine how and when we die. I’ll explain five of them here. The first factor is our pre-birth choices regarding what we came into this lifetime to accomplish. PRE-BIRTH CHOICES: Picture yourself as a soul in the spirit world (before you are born) getting together with your… read more

What can I do to help my loved one’s transition into the spirit world? By Bob Olson Our loved ones don’t “need” our assistance when crossing over to the other side. The process happens unconsciously and instinctively, just like birth yet even more flawlessly. While we humans have learned to control the birth process in… read more

By Bob Olson The only thing that changes when people are sedated by morphine or other drugs while dying is that they might not be awake to have a deathbed vision. Deathbed visions are when loved ones in spirit visit a dying person days or hours before their death in order to welcome them back… read more

By Bob Olson You will certainly be able to communicate with the living while in spirit, although the messages are subtler than the direct communication we know as humans. I recall more than one time after my father died, for example, that the room I was in suddenly filled with the scent of lilacs, even… read more

By Bob Olson There are always people in spirit to greet us regardless of how many family members or friends in our life have died before us. For one, the spirit world is home to us, so we know a lot more people in spirit than we’ll ever know in our human life. Don’t forget… read more

By Bob Olson The simple answer is that some know instantly and some figure it out rather quickly. In cases where people first have an out-of-body experience and are looking down from above at their body, there is sometimes a bit of a surprise at seeing their lifeless body. Yet this surprise doesn’t last long,… read more

By Bob Olson It’s common that dying people are welcomed by their loved ones in spirit days or hours before their death. These experiences are known as “deathbed visions.” In most deathbed visions, the dying person will see or hear (often both) their deceased loved ones on the other side. Some describe this experience as… read more

By Bob Olson Contrary to common belief, our minds are not an aspect of our brains. No doctor or scientist has ever dissected a brain and found the mind, otherwise known as consciousness. This is why many people who have had near-death experiences (and were determined to be brain dead at a hospital) were able… read more

By Bob Olson You will definitely remember everything about your life in the spirit world, even more than you might want to remember. Everything that you ever say, do or think is recalled, mostly due to a process we go through upon our entry back into the spirit world known as our “life review.” While… read more

By Bob Olson To be in spirit form means to be free of all physical suffering. This means we do not feel pain and all our maladies, injuries and deformities are healed, both physical and mental. This means that even depression, mania, dementia and retardation are nonexistent in spirit. As spirits, we are perfectly whole… read more

By Bob Olson Some people might describe death as dark, but death is not dark in the way that we know darkness. In the darkness of our physical world, we can’t see anything—it is total blackness. As a result, our darkness can be frightening because we don’t know what is before us. Evidence indicates that… read more

By Bob Olson Once again, while dying can be scary for most people due to fear of the unknown, death itself is not scary. Those who have died and returned to tell us about it say that they felt nothing but peace, warmth and inner peace during their near-death experience. Especially once we left the… read more

By Bob Olson It’s important to make a distinction between the word “dying” and the word “death.” Dying can be painful. Death is not. Death is the state where you are physically dead but your consciousness survives. Many people who have died for a few seconds or minutes and then been revived have said that… read more