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to understand the trepidation that they would experience with
the knowing that they have chosen this future life to experience

both the beauty and the horror, the happy and the unhappy and
the rough and the smooth. Birth is such a daunting task,
whereas death permits the spirit to return to a reality that has no

such difficulty. Unless that is that the spirit has not made full
use of its lifetime and arrived at the exit point from this life in a

unfulfilled state.
Fortunately this unfulfilled state is rare. Death bed
revelations are often talked about. We hear how a great peace

forms about the person who is going through the process of
dying. The body can be fighting off its passing and this for the

observer can be a testing time. While the body is struggling the
spirit is preparing itself to remove itself from this disintegrating
framework. The spirit feels no pain in this process.

What causes the body to struggle is the unawareness of
the ego that its time has come to finish its work and to release
the spirit onto its road of evolvement. Those who are with the

body at this stage can assist this process by their awareness.
The dying person can be distressed that they are leaving their
loved ones without their protection whereas they are in fact

going into a state where they can be of immense benefit to
those they leave behind. They are going no further than a

thought away. They can still participate in our lives in a very