Julie McFadden, a licensed hospice nurse who runs the Hospice Nurse Julie YouTube channel, claimed that she experienced something bizarre after she saw her patient for the last time
An end-of-life nurse has claimed that she sensed a man’s near-death experience, and even heard his voice moments before he died.
Julie McFadden is a licensed hospice nurse who runs the Hospice Nurse Julie YouTube channel, a platform she uses to educate the public about death and hospice care in a bid to tackle the public’s fear of dying.
She recounted the man’s final moments in a short video, explaining that she had “really got to know” him. Sadly, the man had entered the “actively dying phase” and was being looked after by a continuous care nurse.
Julie recalled the final time she saw him and how she instinctively knew he was “going to die that day”. Yet, after she visited the man for the last time, the nurse went on to experience something incredibly strange.
She said: “I really got to know this guy. When he was in the actively dying phase, which means like the very last few days of death, we had a continuous care nurse in there caring for him on his last days.
“And when I last saw him, he was fully unconscious and I could tell as a hospice nurse that he was going to die that day. So, I was in his room and I was kind of saying my goodbyes silently to him and that was it.”
However, when Julie had finished saying her farewells and went to her car, something bizarre happened. She claimed that while she was thinking about their relationship and thanking him, she could “hear his voice” in her head.
Julie said it was “wild” as “this stuff doesn’t happen” to her, and she found it difficult to discuss as she’s “sceptical”. Yet, she could hear the man talking to her and went on to reveal what he said.
She said: “He was saying my name. He was going, ‘Oh my gosh, Julie. Oh my gosh, Julie’, and he was making me feel things. I could feel like exuberance or freedom or like I was flying almost.”
The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the US describes near-death experiences as vivid “often life-transforming experiences” that can happen during things like cardiac arrest or trauma or when brain activity stops.
People who have these sometimes mystical experiences may feel like they’ve left their body, witnessed a bright light at the end of a tunnel, felt a sense of peace, or even met with their deceased loved ones.
Discover Magazine wrote in 2021 that scientists still don’t see eye to eye on the causes of near-death experiences, despite them being studied for 40 years, although some believe it could be due to “hallucinatory flights of imagination”.
