16/06/2025
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It seems to me that most people when they are dying, what they really want is someone to sit with them and to be there giving them love and compassion and peacefulness. If it is someone who you are close to, certainly you should take their hand and tell them how much you love them and how much you appreciated them. But we should try not to start crying and be waving and say, “Oh, do not leave me, do not leave me,” and making them feel guilty on top of the inevitability of their leaving. We have to give them permission to go on.
What we should also not do at that time is try to change anybody's particular belief system. It is not the time for conversions. If they are devout Christians then tell them to remember Jesus or Mary or God or any Saint they feel particularly close to, or if they are Jewish or Muslim or if they have no beliefs or they are Buddhists or Hindu or whatever belief system they have, encourage them to remember that. If there are any particular prayers that they find comforting, say these prayers with them. The most important thing is to encourage them not to be afraid, to go happily into the light. If they do not believe that anything will happen, tell them not to worry and it is going to be OK. And if there is light, to go towards it and if there is no light, well, never mind. The point is that our presence there should give them peace, hope, a sense of love and acceptance and make them feel better, not worse.
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Photo: Jetsunma praying, 2016.