About Terminal Illnesses

It's heartbreaking to see loved ones fade away due to terminal illness. We feel sorry for the person's suffering. We look around and perceive how many lives will be touched by that person's departure. Our sorrow increases exponentially, and some of us feel like dying too.

What wisdom does Root Spirituality offer to bring a little bit of comfort to our hearts? We will share two short stories where pain was transformed into love.

Story 1

A friend of mine was fighting a very aggressive form of prostate cancer for over three years. He tried all types of surgeries, but the tumors kept reappearing in his pelvic region despite chemotherapy and radiotherapy. One day, one of my spiritual mentors appeared and said to me, “Your friend will pass on very soon. He needs to learn that there’s life after life. Go visit him.”

I went to visit my friend, and although he was very weak, he retained his shining spirit and, despite the pain, found motivation to smile and be grateful for the visit. We talked about various topics, and the conversation turned to spirituality. Suddenly, he asked, "Do you think I will heal?" I knew he was about to die, but I couldn't tell him the truth nor lie to him. I said, “No matter what happens, you will heal. Only your physical body is ill; your spirit is healthy and will live on after you leave Earth.”

We talked some more, and when the nurses came for treatment and exercises, we said our goodbyes. A couple of days later, I received the message that he had passed. That night, I had an astral projection where I met my friend in a beautiful park. He was wearing a long white robe and looked as healthy as before the illness.

We talked a little, and he said, "Tell my son to play my big band songs at my funeral. There’s no reason to be sad; the transition called death is part of life. I know that now." We looked at each other with joy and peace, and I reaffirmed that I would tell his son about his message. He asked me to show his wife a love song that talked about life as a couple and how sweet life was by the lover's side. We said our goodbyes, and I fell back into my body, taking notes of everything to ensure I delivered the most accurate message. When we return from an astral projection, our consciousness has to "shrink" to fit back into our body, and if I went to sleep, I could forget part or the whole message, so I rushed to write it down.

Story 2

I met a 60-year-old woman who told me an amazing story. Her son died while doing a bicycle stunt. The woman told me she was devastated and felt like dying too. She went into a deep depression, and one day, in a dream, her son appeared to her and said, “Mom, try not to be sad because I am well. It wasn’t meant for me to go that day; it was an accident. But what was done cannot be changed; we must understand that life continues for all of us. You are dying inside because of my passing, and this is not good because you won’t go to a beautiful place if you do what you are planning to do. Be well; soon, I’ll have good news.”

About six months later, her son returned in a dream and said, “Mom, I’m coming back! This time as a girl.” He kissed her, and she woke up confused. A couple of weeks later, her other son announced his wife was pregnant, and after a few months, the exam showed it was a girl.

The woman told me that many of her granddaughter’s behaviors are similar to her lost son’s, and she finds comfort believing her son is completing his mission as her granddaughter.

Conclusion

Life on Earth is very brief, and the only thing we know for sure is that someday we will all depart from it.

We are looking at life backward; dying is not disappearing forever—it's returning to our original state, because we are spiritual beings experiencing Earth.

I know these stories won’t ease the pain of someone undergoing the process of terminal illness, directly or indirectly, but Root Spirituality tries to tell us that before coming to Earth, we planned key points of our lives, like:

- the family that would receive us
- our gender
- the type of life we would have
- and, for some of us, even the illness that would cause our departure

In another article, I’ll write about “choosing our pains.”