Death – Gateway to Infinity

 I was reading this chapter on death in “Homeopathic Remedies For The Stages of Life” by the French Homeopath, Didier Grandgeorge, MD early yesterday morning. Hershey was lying beside me. Almost 15 years old he had a strong will to live although his physical body been shutting down rapidly over the last couple of weeks. He was at the end of his life and had been suffering for the last couple of hours. I had been able to comfort him with homeopathic medicines and hands on energy healing up until now., but I was finding it difficult to keep my composure as he moaned.

My friend and colleague, Joanna, had given me a remedy especially for Hershey when we met last week. It was a remedy I didn’t have in stock, and it was “just in case his suffering became too unbearable”, she said. I took it and put it in my purse, thinking that I would never use it. I had “put down” my cat, Buster, 26 years ago, and still to this day I feel guilty about it. I never did it again, allowing our subsequent four legged family members to die at home, in peace. I did not want to use homeopathy in the way of euthenasia, although it had that power. Joanna had reminded me of Grandgeorge’s book where the remedy was listed in this final chapter.

Grandgeorge says, “Death represents the beginning of yet another phase – the separation of the soul from the body and a final departure from material things and from Mother Earth. In order to move on, our spirit must pass through the head via the three meninges – the dura mater, representing the mother who didn’t love us enough; the arachnoid, representing the mother who loved us too much and never gave us our independence; and the pa mater or “pious mother” who, having accessed the dimension of divine love, allows us to go our own way.” I know that I am the mother who loves too much. It is the same for most of us mothers whose own mothers died when we were very young. We tend to over mother. Joanna must have this sense of me too, since she gave me the arachnoid remedy.

According to Grandgeorge it is possible to avoid using morphine, sometimes altogether, or until the very end, with the use of this remedy. The remedy enables the dying to attain inner peace and leave the body. My decision to use it was based on Grandgeorge’s assertion that it “can work miracles when nothing else seems to help the pain”. So, at 6 a.m. I gave Hershey a dose. After about 20 minutes of quiet we both fell asleep. My husband carried him outside to evacuate at 8:30 a.m. and brought him back to bed. By 10 a.m. Hershey had made the transition from this life to other side quietly, and peacefully.