A touching glimpse into the mystery of death | David Galler | TEDxChristchurch

David Galler has spent a lifetime with death. As an intensive care specialist, he's been up close and personal with people at their most profound moments. In this beautiful and heartfelt talk, he shares some perspective on our final moments, and what they can teach us about how to live.

[kloveyoubye]

After recently losing my “little” yet grown a$$ of a man (34 years old) brother in a motorcycle accident, the only thing that has balanced the unimaginable quick and unexpected death of my brother Michael has been the undeniable visits from him. I have been shown that once we pass, we can help influence the past, to the present, and future. Pray for all passed and present. We are one and we create the future.
I’m tired, it’s late, and I’m not smart enough to use my words to explain, but They live and love on. Our love (our light) is their light. Light is existence. Love is all there is. Love is light. Shine your light, hold on to their love, and miracles will continue to happen. Look for the signs. Be at peace with their passing, and stay with an open heart for them to come back through you and through their transition back and forth and so it peacefully is, for our past and future selves

[Wavelover]

I’ve had a few experiences that have shown me about a continuum after life and rather than restrict the living experience, it makes me live life to the fullest. Less fear, more awareness of beauty, easier to see through struggles. Still hard but definitely in no way negative in regard to day to day living

[azitam.a.]

“To consider that after the death of the body the spirit perishes is like imagining that a bird in a cage will be destroyed if the cage is broken, though the bird has nothing to fear from the destruction of the cage. Our body is like the cage, and the spirit is like the bird. We see that
without the cage this bird flies in the world of sleep; therefore, if the cage becomes broken, the bird will continue and exist. Its feelings will be even more powerful, its perceptions greater, and its happiness increased.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá

[emmanuelweinman]

A quote that I’m pretty sure I came up with (with the help of all life) that I think is worth sharing is that “we are carried into the future by the history we create”. Creation is inherently more powerful than destruction. That’s why we all exist. So whatever it is that we are which pops out of the mysterious void has a tendency for being over not being. We are saved by our own hopes and dreams and cursed by our own fears and nightmares. Much love everyone ❤️

[fransteelman]

What a speech! Brilliant! Thank you David.

[chasinglighttoo]

Sorry Doc, I enjoyed you're talk and I I agreed with some things you said but disagreed with others. My grandfather didn't communicate with me in a "letter" I assumed you were being funny : ) but he came to me in spirit to say good bye when he passed. I didn't know he passed but I did know he was ill. My family called me about 5 AM in the morning they said he passed at 2:37 AM the exact time he visited me. I had looked at the clock. My grandfather passed in Illinois and I was living in New Jersey at the time. He didn't look 90, which was the age he passed at, he looked like he did in his wedding pictures. He was in his 20s when he married my grandmother. When I asked a very spiritual lady name Sallie Mae who was 108 years old why he looked like that because that didn't make sense to me she said it's because we go back to young adulthood in the eternal life. I asked her what happens to children when they pass and she said they will be young adults in the eternal life. When my sister was killed in a car accident that wasn't her fault, she was side swiped, she was killed along with two nephews ages 10 and 8 months, both boys. When the two boys visited their mom they were young adults. The accident happened in 2003 and my grandfather passed in 1994. There is an after life and it doesn't diminish this present life of ours at all. It should enhance it and make us love more and do more for others and enjoy our lives to the fullest without the fear of death which I think causes great harm in our existence in this mortal life. Be blessed

[arlinegeorge]

Beautiful amazing impressive talk. Life evolve in mysterious ways. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.

[gailsmith]

Actually my Granny came to me the morning after the evening she passed over, it was better than any letter 🦋

[MaryAnnCJones]

Great message, except please research more thoroughly near death experiences. My daughter died two years ago and we have had two clear tangible experiences with her. These experiences are so concrete that I think it would be a leap of faith to dismiss them. There is so much on YouTube about NDE’s- please look into it before making such public absolute judgements. You have great influence, please research thoroughly before making declarations that can affect hope. Life is a mystery...science is just beginning to scratch the surface. Please don’t dismiss just because you don’t have the tools or understanding. A true scientist seeks truth - with a open mind. Your kindness and the beauty of your soul shines - I hope u seek the existence of God and afterlife with true openness. My faith is the greatest joy of my life. I live with joy despite the grief of my daughter’s death. I work hard to serve despite thinking with wonder about the afterlife. My life is not reduced. These contemplations make my life richer. May God bless you and the kind work you do.

[rigelmoon]

NDE's are phenomena that have been well documented for thousands of years. Plato had one. As a retired health care professional, I have talked to many people in hospital who related their experiences to me. It is very hard to prove; yet, it's very hard to dismiss. It comes down to you alone in what you believe. Death is personel. We are mortal. No one survives death. If you happen to believe in the idea that our spirits leave our vesicle and are called home, good for you. If you believe we blink out into oblivion at death, there is no harm in that. Either way death is not to be feared. It's the process of dying that I fear most.

[Bricklinsv]

My Father had a NDE and had the exact same experience to the T.

[tillyvickers]

Just because you haven't experienced something doesn't mean it does not exist.😉
Many millions of us have had glimpses of the afterlife and after death communication with passed loved ones.
It doesn't mean we're not living fully...On the contrary, it allows us not to fear death and live a conscious, even happier life.🙂👋

[ivaogden]

God is real! I will always believe heaven...I am going there when I die❤

[camilliuslacroix]

Everybody have their own views on death I have mines death is nothing strange to our spiritual awareness it is just our lost of memories. When we dies, we return to where we came and when we are born we continue from where we left off.

[aliabrahim]

Good To workers in Healthy career and spirit on Human Services.
thanks very much

[electricmanist]

This man might minimize the concept (reality) of the after life and try to compensate by adopting a caring and compassionate towards those in his care, (certainly an admirable quality), he additionally would benefit from the realization that human life (incarnation) is but a transient period of learning or growth before we leave the body when it dies. The spirit is eternal.

[mrbass]

Unless you have died, you have no experience about death

[festabrava]

You only get one opportunity to be known as the person you're now. Tomorrow? God only knows the answer. Meanwhile, make sure to justify your existence at a point where you are able to at least cope with the unavoidable fate and you will surely be happy for the rest of your walk trough this plane.
Possibilities are infinite, life isn't. So, be pragmatic and live by the limits of what you know as reality instead of sacrificing your happiness in exchange of trying to get an answer about what you don't know, which in a universe as complex as ours made of infinite hypothetical probabilites, is rather impossible due to our physical and psychical limitations.

[electricmanist]

A rather mournful view of life. Fortunately we all survive (spiritually) death.

[regalchic]

What a beautiful speech from the heart . I believe in the afterlife though, but I think that we must live this one well first