O sung wo, no, I do not see this thread as silly or a ghost story one.
It is about a question we all ask our selves but shrink away from talking about.
Suseonline, gday, can you add to the view Nurses tell of the dieing waiting for loved ones to come before dieing?
My mum suffered for months, in hospital not being able to communicate after a stroke.
Visits every single hour we could daily, saw communication re start with good results.
But mums sister came from a very long way away, and told me to leave!
She said mum would not die while I was there,a spooky lady, claiming and seeming to prove, she talked to the dead, mum died 15 minutes after I left.
My days on the road work saw me count 73 dead, in just one 50 klm strip.
I stopped counting, it was more.
Standing on a spot that saw such an event, middle of the night, alone controlling traffic for yet another fatal?
You do not ever want to do that.
I am convinced, some thing takes place after death.
Remember however near death turns many away from formal religions.
And this fact, the God of my birth said no one is raised until he calls.
So while my remarks will offend some,the thread asks a question we can address if we put our fears away.

'afternoon to you both, LEXI & BELLY...

LEXI, what a beautiful piece you wrote ! As you say, and probably asked yourself a dozen times during those frightening days, does the power of prayer work ? Even if we don't believe ? There is so much we don't know, about everything really ? And I guess death does, in so many ways, really mystifys, even confounds us all.

I suppose many in the nursing profession, Doctors, Ambo's, police, and many others have been present at the exact point of a person's death. Certainly our SUSEONLINE described such an incident that she herself was witness too and was present ? What does a person feel, at that exact moment ? Are they aware they've died ? And for how long is that awareness present, before that person expires completely ?

All a bit silly really ? We're born, most struggle all their lives, (some even suffer, profoundly) and then in some indeterminate period in the future, we die ? Religion aside, why ?

BELLY, old mate...

You've mentioned working on roads, that've been subject to many fatals ? I'm in total agreement with you ! All that death, injury, misery, horror - surely, after such terrible events (similar to war) there must be something, albeit invisable, 'remain' ?

Even a sort of energy 'residue', an 'atmosphere', even a 'resounding vibration' - something must surely endure indefinately thereat. Obviously, it's an energy source of a kind we can neither see, touch, nor smell ? But it's something we can surely 'feel' though ! Similar to electricity ! We can't see it exactly, but by golly we can certainly feel it though, given the right circumstances !

Therefore in my limited reasoning, I can't rationally accept, that after an enormous vehicular collision, of such monumental sufficiency to cause death, and given the prodigious amount of unfettered energy released as a consequence of that impact, surely that 'energy' must remain somewhere, but where ?

Thank you both for your continued responses.

What an absolutely silly topic to put up here. I'll not be able to sleep now ?!

o sung wu, this is what happens when one mind has run out of fuel...Death is the last score, however, what ever members choose to veiw thy bigger pictures of life, still try to be as human as you can:)....well for some on here anyway.

PLANET3

Sorry p3, for you, such self assurance, and so badly miss placed.
O sung wo, yes my work area was the *Pacific highway death strip*
It was such, while a poor road poor driving played the biggest roll.
Head on, three dead Nuns, two dead drug carriers.
One month 3 smashes each took 3 lives.
Men are marked by such events.
Police too.
Young but far from green, loved and respected cop, small town but liked by all.
Sat in his car lights flashing, at his best mates sons fatal.
He was speaking in to the mike, informing all it was alright he was talking to the young bloke.
*Let no man say he was acting*, his life was destroyed by event after event.
Some thing remains, at least for an instant, after death.
I am a hard nut but knew, without doubt my dad was with me post death.
And one hard day, months after mums death while mowing the lawn, heard in my mind not as sound, her say she was proud of me.
Those shrinking away from this thread may re view their thoughts on why we live at all.
And why we can think a second chance at life will come but not this way.
If you visited that empty house in north Parramatta, just maybe it is the same one that sent us young blokes home in fear once was enough.
We often took our girl friends on ghost hunts, they usualy stayed after we ran.

Sorry p3, for you, such self assurance, and so badly miss placed.

Not really belly when it comes to the bigger picture. My opinions have been well stated here and have read the thread..... and I see quite well the subject matter here. Dealing with death whether it be by stupid actions or an act of god...still if some have decoded the bible right, god would tell you not to wait for him....even life its self calls for the survival of the smartest/fittest call, and all living things comes under the same bracket. How to handel the sight of death comes under the strength of the individual which by DNA...all are programed to handel such in-with the little or greater understandings of what the the meaning of life is...and with the add of hinesight, the more you have on the roads, well the maths shows the out-comes.

The big bang, start from there:)

PLANET

A friend of my Mum can "see dead people", just like in the movie The Sixth Sense, she can hear them speak and everything, the phantoms arent everywhere, mainly in older buildings but the way she describes it they sometimes notice that she can see them and try to talk to her. She's said that most of them are either looking for someone or they want to know what she's doing in "their" house, like a lot of "sensitives" she says that the spirits don't seem to realise that they are dead.
This woman has had a few frightening experiences, once in a rental property up in Sunraysia with the ghost of an old woman who had dementia and would follow her all around the house all day screaming obscenities and a very upsetting experience where at the wake for her young niece who'd died suddenly she saw the ghost of the deceased out of the corner of her eye but refused to turn around and look at her.
As is usual in these stories my mother's friend is a stoic, no nonsense woman who doesn't drink and has no mental problems, she worked at a senior job in the public service and held other responsible jobs all her life and is the model of trustworthiness and sincerity...but there it be, I don't know what to make of it.