Miss Dallas

My friend Miss Dallas has sent me some cases of Visions of the Dying which occurred to persons she knew.

In one case the face of her friend’s mother, just before death, suddenly lighted up with an intense brilliancy. When this had passed away, the dying woman opened her eyes and said that she had looked into Heaven, and had seen many people they knew had passed over, and also that many of the things she had seen it was impossible to describe. Shortly after this she died.

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In another case Miss Dallas tells of a widow, living with her youngest surviving son, Jim, then dying of consumption. Miss Dallas visited the mother shortly after her son’s death, and recorded the following in her notebook the same day:

“Jim had died on a Thursday, and on the previous Sunday his end appeared to be near, but he revived, and told his mother that he had seen something beautiful. Again he had a relapse, and on reviving he said he had seen two of his sisters and a brother who had died previously, but he added, ‘Mother, I cannot find Bessie.’ His mother told Miss Dallas that Bessie had died twelve years before, when Jim was still a child. Not long after this Jim died.”

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William Barrett, Death-Bed Visions (Green Point Books, 2023), 43.