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Osis, Karlis, and Erlendur Haraldsson. At the Hour of Death: A New Look at Evidence for Life After Death. Revised ed. White Crow Books, 2012. Chapter 3, Doris, pp. 38-39
At the Hour of Death - Doris - Chapter 3 - Pages 38-39 - 2012
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1924-01-12
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Doris experienced life-threatening complications during childbirth on January 12, 1924, in a hospital setting with Lady Barrett as her attending physician. Despite successfully delivering her baby, Doris was dying from the complications. The experience was witnessed firsthand by Lady Barrett, who noted Doris's deteriorating condition.
During her near-death state, Doris suddenly looked toward one part of the room with a radiant smile, exclaiming "Oh, lovely, lovely" and describing "lovely brightness-wonderful beings." She became intensely absorbed in the vision, which Lady Barrett described as conveying a powerful sense of reality. Doris then joyfully recognized her deceased father, saying "Why, it's Father! Oh, he's so glad I'm coming; he is so glad." The vision was so compelling that after seeing her newborn, she declared she couldn't stay, saying "if you could see what I do, you would know I can't stay." The most significant veridical element occurred when Doris, with a puzzled expression, announced "He has Vida with him," referring to her sister. This observation was extraordinary because Vida had died three weeks earlier, but this information had been deliberately withheld from Doris due to her precarious health. Doris could not have known through normal means that her sister was deceased, making this a powerful piece of veridical evidence that was directly witnessed by Lady Barrett at the bedside. Following this vision, Doris expressed her final wishes for her husband and baby before peacefully transitioning to death. The experience so profoundly impacted Sir William Barrett that he undertook the first systematic study of deathbed visions, publishing his findings in 1926. This case remains significant for its well-documented veridical element of perceiving a recently deceased relative whose death was unknown to the experiencer.
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Life-threatening childbirth complications witnessed by physician (7 pts), conscious patient with no sensory barriers (1 pt), contemporary medical documentation by attending physician (6 pts)
Highly specific veridical observation of deceased sister whose death was unknown (15 pts), knowledge of unknown death type perception (10 pts)
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