The profound meaning and mystery of deathbed visions
For as long as she can remember, Debbie Eichensehr has feared losing her mother. Throughout her early childhood and well into her teen years, she tried to quell her anxiety with a bedtime ritual. Before going to sleep, she would kiss her mother’s cheek and recite the same words:
Good night, I love you, I’ll see you in the morning.
Good night, her mother always answered. I love you, too.
And? Debbie would press her. Tell me you’ll see me in the morning.
“I had to hear her say it,” Debbie recalled recently. “I don’t know why.”
So when it seemed like her mother actually was going away — when 83-year-old Shirley Brydalski, confined to a hospital bed in her living room in western New York, began to speak and behave as though she were somewhere else entirely — Debbie’s immediate response was dread.
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