Actually near-death experiences depend on
one’s culture. Many Japanese who have near-death experiences say that they
visited a flower garden.
My father had an operation on his heart. That
was a few years after my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and a
few years before my father passed away.
The doctor said there was a thirty percent
possibility my father could die during the operation. The doctor also said
there was a thirty percent possibility my father would not regain conscious
after the operation. It was a tough operation. The doctor asked me to remain in
the hospital during the operation.
I decided to wait in the hospital with my
mother on that day. In those days, it was already dangerous to let her stay
alone at home, because her disease had progressed. Furthermore, I thought if my
father passed away during the operation, she should be near him, even if she
couldn’t understand the situation or she couldn’t remember what happened in the
hospital.
The hospital didn’t have a special waiting
room for patients’ families. So my mother and I just waited a few hours in a
lounge for inpatients. The same as usual, I just listened my mother’s endless
talking.
The operation was safely performed but my
father did not recover consciousness on that day. We left the hospital and my
unconscious father who had many tubes in his body.
A few minutes later we came home, and my
mother asked me a question.
“Well, I can’t
remember…what were we doing today?”
I answered.
“We visited a
hospital.”
She doubted that.
“I remember we
visited a flower garden. I am sure we ate lunch there.”
Actually we ate sandwiches for lunch in the
dark lounge for inpatients in the hospital.
My father had the operation on his heart. The
doctor temporally stopped his heart. He was very close to death. He could visit
the flower garden. My mother perhaps was already a half resident of the other
world. It is possible to imagine that my mother actually visited the flower
garden with my father.
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