Is There Life After Death?

Is There Life After Death?

IVAN’S STORY

This is a story about a man I met while I was working in hospice. Ivan lived until he was 70 and his story resonated with me so much and inspired me to help spread his understanding of life and death, and more importantly that death is just a small part of our greater purpose.

Ivan was a quiet, kind, elegant and charming man and someone I will never forget. His light touched my life and I hope his story touches yours.

Is there life after death? Read this and see what you think.

Ivan’s wish

I met and treated Ivan during my volunteer days at hospice. His aim was to stay alive long enough to go home for Christmas 2014. He got his wish and I am so thankful for that. And he was so thankful to his “Lord”, as he calls him, for giving him that opportunity.

Ivan felt as though he had a very close relationship with God. The reason for that is that when he was 44 he actually died. His father, brother and he all suffered from a congenital heart defect which meant that his father and brother didn’t make the end of their 40s as they both died from heart attacks.

He was above his body

At the age of 44, on Boxing Day, Ivan also died from a heart attack. He remembers seeing his body lying on the hospital bed with the crash team surrounding him. He says that the ward was designed like a swastika shape – from each bed, the patients were private from each other, but the ward sister could observe all beds from her centrally placed station.

He said that from his place in the air above the bed where his body was lying, he could see everyone in the ward, including the station where the sister sat.

The crash team were trying to bring him back to life with the defibrillator but he wasn’t responding. He remembers seeing his late father waiting for him to move across towards him.

The doctor who was trying to revive him finally gave up on the defibrillator and told the nurse to inject his heart with adrenalin as a last resort. Apparently she fumbled with the syringe in her rush to treat him, and the doctor became cross with her and did the injection himself. Ivan remembers watching all this happening.

Ivan’s choice to live or die

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In the meantime, he said he remembers having a choice to make. He knew he could go back into his body and resume life after death, or that he could move towards his father and join the spirit world. He said that God said to him at that moment, that he would like him to go back into his body and spread the message of love and to tell people they do not need to fear death, that there is continuous life beyond it and that one day, we will be reunited with our loved ones.

Ivan decided to move back into his body, the adrenalin injection worked and brought him back to life.

Since that time, Ivan spread his message to people he thought might be open to listening to it. He didn’t preach it, but told those who may benefit from his story and who were willing to listen. Ivan’s story helped a lot of families to manage the remaining days of a loved one’s life with hope and faith that they would, one day, be reunited and that life after death does exist.

Ivan died in early January 2015, yet he was prepared by then to make his move over to the spirit world, and was ready for when his Lord came to claim him.

Comfort and hope

Ivan was such a lovely man, and I wish you could have heard his words for yourselves. If you have read this far, it may be an indication that your beliefs are similar. I hope Ivan’s story brings you comfort in the knowledge that our loved ones will be waiting for us when our times come.

Books you may be interested in reading about the afterlife are below. I have read all of them and can highly recommend them if you would like to learn more about life after death.