Had a similar experience with my estranged Dad in the 2007 time frame (he bolted from the family in the early 80s). I remember waking up in the middle of the night and vaguely thinking that he had just passed away; a few years later my sister went looking for him online and found his death notice posted with the same date in 2007.

My wife’s father was in Hospice for terminal cancer about ten years ago. One night just before he passed one of the nurses pulled my wife to the side and told her that the “Angels” were gathered around her Dad’s bedside waiting to escort him to Heaven (he was a Believer and yes, the nurse always knew when someone was close to death because she said that’s when she could see the Angels in the building).

Lastly, a friend was telling me about one of her distant relatives who had suffered a sudden relapse from his cancer and literally within a few days after he started vomiting blood he was close to death. (She tried to get him on the Joe Tippens’ protocol earlier but he apparently kept postponing it, saying that he was going to start it as soon as he was done with chemo.). Anyway, within a couple of days in the hospital he fell into a coma and she said just before he took his last breath, he suddenly woke up, bolted upright in his bed, looked upward and said, “Wow… It’s so beautiful.” Immediately afterwards he laid back down and breathed his last.