You always find out in the end, right??......wonder what Steven Hawking found out since he said it's a "Fairy Tale".

What an interesting story, he will meet his father again.

This made me think about Edgar Casey the dreaming prophet, he could see Auras, the energy field that surrounds us, he could see the colors, he could see where people had illness, anyway, one day he was at some function and he noticed 3 people standing at the elevator, they had no Auras, he really didn't think much until the elevator crashed and all 3 were killed. So to him, he believed your soul knows when it's time to leave.

Since I'm up and all hopped up on coffee, I have another story, couple years ago I was in the hospital with pneumonia, I was really sick, I was dreaming about some old man who told me that he gets to go to U of M
well, I woke up and a bright light was coming right at me, I'm on the 3rd floor, so I was frozen in fear, then i seen the helicopter go up, my room was under the helicopter pad, in the morning I asked my nurse if there was a bad accident because i thought the helicopter was bringing someone in, she said no, it was here to take someone to U of M medical centet in Ann Arbor. Freaky or what?

I think Steven Hawking was feeling like a big dummy when he got there (if he got there).

I've read quite a bit on Edgar Cayce, fascinating stuff.

With your experience in the hospital, Sully, you may be more in tune with things like that than you realize. There are a lot of people who have had amazing experiences like that and never say anything to anybody except in strict confidence. Anybody who has spent a lot of time at the bedside of a dying person is more likely to see or hear amazing things too.