My dad was to leave the next morning from the hospital where he had been for over a week.  He had collapsed a couple of times, appearing to be dying, so my family had taken him there.

 

After I was notified, my husband and I flew from Phoenix to Hawaii, and we were visiting with my dad in the hospital.  Before we said good-bye, however, I intuitively sensed that I should stay overnight with him, and arranged to do so.  

 

Not long after my husband left, while my dad lay on the hospital bed, he yelled out to me, "I'm dying!"  As he did so, his natural color was draining from his body, and he certainly appeared to be dying.  Instantly I vehemently countered, "No, you are NOT!"  His color returned just as instantly, and he appeared to respond agreeably, overcoming that aggressive mental suggestion of death.   I said a few strong truths to him, and feeling all was well, I left him for the place the hospital had prepared for me to stay close to him that night.  Come to think of it, I don't even think I mentioned the incident to anyone at the hospital, it completely left my mind.

 

I prayed silently and gratefully before sleeping.  After a peaceful night, we took my dad home the next morning.

 

My husband and I stayed in Hawaii about two weeks, and during that time my dad made great progress, demonstrating each day his happiness to have us there and the evidences of putting behind him thoughts of death.  He was even able to go shopping with us.

 

After our return to Phoenix, I failed to detect and reverse an erroneous suggestion that appeared in my thought.  Instead, I distinctly recall that I let my dad go, and not in the higher sense of knowingly leaving him in Life's ever-presence.  Both my parents were in their nineties, and I didn't want my mom and the rest of the household to be burdened by the demands of caring for my dad in illness.  I mention this to make the reader aware of the subtle operation of evil in thought:  while an elderly patient is facing aggressive mental suggestions of death (mental malpractice on his own part), often the nearest relatives silently acquiesce (mental malpractice on their part), instead of rising in thought to the standpoint of Life and oppose this greatest of all lies, the separation from Life and Love, synonyms for God, and the inevitability of death.  

 

Before the appearance of aging, in all its forms, Christian Scientists should bear in mind that man is the true idea of God, at one with Infinite Mind, rather than material personality, the first death, entombed in the belief of time and space.

 

My dad passed on a few months later.  However, I learned that before then, he had expressed a certain freedom, such that he had gone alone by bus to visit his sister the day of his passing.  My family did not express grief at his passing, although we all loved him dearly; and my presence was not even needed (considering the expensive air fare), while I was kept informed of subsequent events related to my dad's passing. 

 

The above occurred in the previous millenium.