The Long Climb to Heaven
My Mother’s After Life Experience while Undergoing Surgery
I never thought about death during my younger days.
Until . . . I came face to face with death itself.
The death of my mother.
It was then I realized that death — especially the death of a loved one — is most painful, and is the most difficult reality that we would come to face in this earthly life.
Questions raced in my mind as I try to make sense about the reality of my mother dying after the doctors treating her said she had but six months to live.
“Is this going to be the end of your existence, mother?” I sobbed inside me while gazing at my unconscious mother at the hospital bed.
“Are you really going to die . . . never to be with us anymore, forever?”
After coming to terms with the certainty of my mother dying in six months' time more questions demanding for truth flooded my mind.
“What happens after death?”
“Would there be another form of life awaiting someone somewhere when he or she leaves the earth?”
“Would it be the absolute end of people’s existence when they finally breathe their last here on earth, with their bodies becoming immobile and cold, and unresponsive?”
