Why Some Suffer Before Passing Over

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Why Some Suffer Before Passing Over

by Sherrie Dillard

Someone recently asked me an interesting question. She wondered why her grandmother suffered for so long before passing over to the Other Side. I understood the question quite well. Anyone who has helplessly watched a loved one suffer through an illness and pain before passing has the same question. Over the course of a year, my mother went from playing tennis two hours a day to being bedridden, riddled with pain and unable to think clearly. When she died, it felt like a blessing.

 
Why People May Suffer Before Death

For months after my mother’s death, I contemplated and asked my spirit guides to help me to understand why she and so many others suffer before passing over. I learned that although it appears to make no sense and be a cruel way to live out the last days of life, the soul doesn’t abide by our human perceptions. On some level, we accept and create all that happens to us. It is not our conscious mind or personality and ego that makes these choices. Instead, it is the soul and spirit that perceives value, evolutionary advancement and possibilities in what in human terms is senseless and merciless.

In my mother’s case, my guides told me that my mother chose to suffer in this way to “burn off” negativity and karma before entering the higher vibrations of light. In this way, she was able to leave behind and dissolve emotional, mental, spiritual, and even physical patterns and accumulated energy that may prevent her from rising to higher blissful layers of light more quickly upon passing.

 
Why Do ‘Good People’ Suffer?

There are many people who suffer who lived good, positive lives with kindness and integrity. There are others who experience a slower dying process who are fearful of going over. They may be plagued with guilt and doubtful that there is life beyond the human experiences. This kind of mental and emotional suffering is likely the most difficult.

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