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AT THE HOUR OF DEATH
Shared by Ma. Cecilia F. Alfonso for Team 'La Familia Longganisa'
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Death. The word in itself holds an indescribable intensity. A force far beyond fear itself.
Just very recently we have dealt with two deaths in the family. My closest Aunt has been critically ill for almost half a year before her death in August. My 56-year-old mentally-challenged and disabled Uncle died two months after when he had his usual seizure and badly hit his head while in the bath. We know it’s unfortunate but that’s life… We can never tell when we will bid this world and our loved ones’ goodbye. But then again, no matter how much we prepare ourselves and no matter how many times we say we are ready to be face-to-face with death, I guess we never really are prepared. Whether we are the ones to depart for the afterlife ourselves or whether we remain here as the bereaved family abandoned by a loved one, we can never say we are truly ready when it comes and happens.
Eerie as it may seem, I have personally experienced things that are somewhat out of the ordinary at the time of their deaths. In general, it’s as if you feel a certain presence… Like they are still there, as if they never left. During my Auntie’s wake, I together with my youngest brother volunteered as that night’s “bantay” to at least spend one last night by her side. At around four in the morning when everyone else was already upstairs sleeping, I went to the bathroom and noticed something “unusual”. There were traces of fresh dirt on the bathroom flooring as if someone just went in and walked across the wet floor. I found it weird for I haven’t seen or heard someone use the bathroom before me. Also, I haven’t seen any further traces outside of the bathroom. I was also certain that it was definitely not my brother for we were the only ones left staying downstairs at that time and he hasn’t left his seat before that. I was left wondering and I found it somewhat creepy but I just chose to ignore it.
At the very recent death of my Uncle though, there was this one particular eerie encounter that I just cannot ignore. His casket was brought home very late on a Sunday evening and since I have to get up early for work the next day, I decided to pay him a visit after my work hours that Monday. Perhaps, he decided to pay me a visit that night instead… For while I was ironing a work week’s set of uniforms in front of the TV, it suddenly switched from signal (antenna) mode and connected to the internet all by itself! I didn’t realize what was happening at once, not until I saw that the only remote we had for that function was beside the TV right in front of me! I shouted and called for my husband and as soon as he realized what was happening, already flashed on the TV screen was the known video site called Youtube. We both froze and with wide-eyes we anticipated that a scary video might then play on the site that we hurriedly reached for the remote and turned the television off. We both know something strange really did happen for you cannot automatically connect our TV to the internet! Something or someone really must have done that! Perhaps it was just his way of fooling around and making “fun” of me just like he used to…
Death just as life is really as mysterious. I know it may sound cliché’ and Impossible but it happened to me!
Eerie as it may seem, I have personally experienced things that are somewhat out of the ordinary at the time of their deaths. In general, it’s as if you feel a certain presence… Like they are still there, as if they never left. During my Auntie’s wake, I together with my youngest brother volunteered as that night’s “bantay” to at least spend one last night by her side. At around four in the morning when everyone else was already upstairs sleeping, I went to the bathroom and noticed something “unusual”. There were traces of fresh dirt on the bathroom flooring as if someone just went in and walked across the wet floor. I found it weird for I haven’t seen or heard someone use the bathroom before me. Also, I haven’t seen any further traces outside of the bathroom. I was also certain that it was definitely not my brother for we were the only ones left staying downstairs at that time and he hasn’t left his seat before that. I was left wondering and I found it somewhat creepy but I just chose to ignore it.
At the very recent death of my Uncle though, there was this one particular eerie encounter that I just cannot ignore. His casket was brought home very late on a Sunday evening and since I have to get up early for work the next day, I decided to pay him a visit after my work hours that Monday. Perhaps, he decided to pay me a visit that night instead… For while I was ironing a work week’s set of uniforms in front of the TV, it suddenly switched from signal (antenna) mode and connected to the internet all by itself! I didn’t realize what was happening at once, not until I saw that the only remote we had for that function was beside the TV right in front of me! I shouted and called for my husband and as soon as he realized what was happening, already flashed on the TV screen was the known video site called Youtube. We both froze and with wide-eyes we anticipated that a scary video might then play on the site that we hurriedly reached for the remote and turned the television off. We both know something strange really did happen for you cannot automatically connect our TV to the internet! Something or someone really must have done that! Perhaps it was just his way of fooling around and making “fun” of me just like he used to…
Death just as life is really as mysterious. I know it may sound cliché’ and Impossible but it happened to me!
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