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TASMANIANRED WROTE: "The most unusual death I ever witnessed was an atheist. He was in ICU on the ventilator suffering from liver failure."

TASMANIANRED ADDED: "Liver failure is not a good way to go. He was in a coma, bleeding from the eyes, nose, lungs, in his urine..."

TASMANIANRED ADDED: "He hadn't even blinked voluntarily in several days. When his heart flipped into a lethal rhythm, He sat up, opened his eyes and stared. "

TASMANIANRED ADDED: "It is the one and only time I saw anybody sit up to die. It may have only been an oddity but I still can't explain it and haven't talked to any one that could."

Two of the sweetest Christian women I have ever known, who used to take care of me when my parents were out of town, died a few years ago. They were elderly, childless sisters, 7 years apart in age.

The younger sister suddenly died at home first and was found by the older sister, laying back across the bed with her feet on the floor and her arms outstretched. She looked as if she had been sitting on the bed, with her arms outstretched, then fell backwards as she died.

The older sister died in a hospital and, as I understand, had been "out of it" and not moving or opening her eyes for several days. Immediately before she died, she suddenly sat up in bed, opened her eyes, and with her arms outstretched up and out in front of her, said "I love you!" as if she was seeing the LORD, then fell back and died.

I always looked at the event as a positive indication that she DID see the LORD. It made me think that a much as the LORD is love and wants us to love each other, that maybe He gives people that literal last second of life to decide to believe in Him and go with Him as you die.

" Immediately before she died, she suddenly sat up in bed, opened her eyes,"

My uncle died of leukemia and was surrounded by my mother and other brothers who had gathered because he was near death. He had been in a coma when, after all were assembled, he opened his eyes, scanned around the room and passed away.

A coworker of my wife's, had an aortic aneurysm burst at work. He collapsed into a chair and was comatose. It took, as I recall, nearly 10 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. As he was being lifted into the ambulance, he opened his eyes and waved to his coworkers. He was DOA at the hospital.

My mother in law died at home after a long fight with bone cancer. My brother in law was sleeping there when he woke to the sound of footsteps, only no one was walking around. My mother in law had died. When my father in law and brother in law went outside that May morning at 1:AM, all the birds were singing.