- 68 - In the following example, the American doctor Dr. Moody writes about in his book “Life after Death”, thoughts and above all prayers have an influence of the dying process. Moody writes (14, P. 88): “In a few isolated cases, the affected presented the view that they had been brought back from death against their own wishes through the love and the prayers of others.” For instance, in the following case: “During her last illness, it dragged out for a very long time, I was with my elderly aunt and helped with looking after her. All in the family prayed for her so that she might regain her health. Her breathing stopped a number of times, but she was brought back again and again. One day she opened her eyes and said to me: “Joan, I have been over there, over there in the hereafter. It is wonderful there. I would like to remain there, but for as long as you beg me to stay and live amongst you, I cannot do so. Your prayers keep me here. Please, do no longer pray for me.’ All of us refrained from praying and she died shortly after.” The following example gives one the impression that children successfully brought their dying mother back from an almost sealed fate, her death. This report was published in 1911 by an author by the name of Schrimpf. It goes (19, P. 103): “The year before – that is to say in 1910 – a 95 years old woman by the name of André, nee Vallentin, died in Vorbruck. She had gone about all her daily chores only two days prior, because she was very energetic and sprightly and possessed complete freshness of mind and body. But she looked forward to dying with longing and joy in spite of it, she had been talking about her frustrations of still having to remain here for many years. When asked about it, she gladly told you the reason. She had been married twice. She was 28 years old when her first husband died and she had two children. She then married a second time. This marriage was blessed with four children. All six children were still relatively little when she lost her second husband. She managed to look after herself and her children by baking bread and all kinds of pastry. She had a small stall at a market and one could see her there knitting stockings. - A number of years passed. One day in autumn it rained the whole day. She felt terribly cold at her stall and when she came home, she shivered with fever. She found the next day that she couldn’t get up. A severe case of pneumonia had developed. Her two eldest had to man the stall on her behalf and the other four looked after their mother as best as they could. A neighbour looked in on the patient once in a while, brought her some soup etc, but nobody had time to sit and change her compressions, because all the neighbours were mostly also poor and had their hands full. She suddenly became very ill on the third day. The children ran off to get help, but by the time the doctor arrived, he could only attest that poor Mrs. André had died. The viewers of the dead came the next day and then a woman who washed and dressed the deceased. After she left, the four little children climbed onto the bed of their mother. They shook and jolted the deceased back and forth whilst wailing and crying loudly and they threw themselves on top of her constantly calling out. After they had manipulated their mother for about ten minutes, a deep sigh escaped from the chest of the alleged departed, then one more and she arduously opened her eyelids. The moment the children noticed this, they threw themselves anew and jubilantly on top of her, pulling her upright and not five minutes had past, when they had their mother again, alive and fully conscious. The whole little town came together over this miracle and the thus resurrected was heaped with groceries and money, she was once again at her stall two or three weeks after, alive and well. She lived for another 58 years after this event and she was never ever afflicted by an illness ever again. All her children died before her and she was not able to even wrest one of them from death’s
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