I’m a hospice nurse and I’ve witnessed hundreds of deaths – this is what I REALLY think happens when we die

A hospice nurse who claims to have ‘witnessed hundreds of deaths’ has revealed what she believes ‘really happens when we die’.

US-based Julie, a prominent online figure who is working to ease fears surrounding death, recently shared her hypothesis as to what happens to people when they pass away.

The medical professional, who boasts 1.7 million followers on TikTok and 500,000 YouTube subscribers, shared her thoughts in a six-minute clip, explaining her theory that those on the brink of death return ‘home’ before taking their final breaths.

‘I believe we are all going to a place that feels more like home than here ever could,’ she said. 

The hospice worker, who previously worked in an emergency room and now nurses in a hospice where she has supported dozens of people during their final days, claims she doesn’t fear death after having witnessed the passing of countless individuals.

Julie said she understood it was simply her ‘belief’ and didn’t want to appear as though she was ‘pushing it’ onto viewers. 

‘I don’t fear it [an afterlife] because it feels to me like I’m going to go back to a place that I’ve always known and the more times I’ve watched someone take their last breath, the more and more I believe this to be true,’ she shared. 

She said she has been able to gauge a true understanding of the experience of death through her work, since the grief is ‘removed’ in the context of work. 

‘It’s like I can just be present there and when I’m present there, I can feel that they are so close to that place,’ she said, referring to the ‘home’ she believes people reach in their final moments.

‘There’s something about me being around them that makes me feel close to them again and almost home sick,’ she added. ‘I’ve always felt homesick for a place I can’t remember.’

People shouldn’t worry about where they go when their times comes as entering the after life ‘feels good’ and ‘like home’, Julie insisted.

According to her beliefs, people being born arrive in from the same place as those departing. 

‘I get that same feeling as when I’ve watched babies being born,’ she explained, adding that she’d always felt that even infants up to a month old ‘just know something’ because they’ve been to the place most ‘can’t quite remember’. 

The nurse claimed she doesn’t ‘fear death’ since all humans will return ‘home’ and in doing so, will ‘remember’ all their formative experiences.

‘There’s also a feeling of sacredness,’ she said, adding that she doesn’t subscribe to the beliefs held by many religious folk, that there is an afterlife open only to those who have behaved a certain way during their lives.

‘It won’t feel scary. It will feel peaceful and beautiful and lovely. And I don’t think you need to believe in a certain thing to get there,’ she theorised. 

She admitted that she very well may ‘be wrong’ about what happens when people pass away.

Some of Julie’s more ‘extreme’ beliefs include the idea of a ‘shared death experience’ – which she explained has allowed her to ‘feel’ the deaths of some of her patients before they have even happened.

She recalled her experience having apparently predicted the death of one of her patients with whom she was ‘really close with’.

‘I went to go see him right before he died, I could tell he would die that day and I said my goodbyes to him in my head and made peace with his death – I was happy for him.

‘I said my final goodbye in my car before I turned it on to go to my next patient and all of a sudden, I could hear his voice and I could feel these feelings.

‘The feelings that I frequently feel, that feel of what I would think the afterlife would feel like – like home, like comfort.’ According to Julie, entering the afterlife feels much like ‘joy’ and ‘exuberance’.

Discovering the death of her patient left her with a smile knowing that he had gone somewhere ‘better’. 

‘I could hear his voice in my head and he was saying, “oh my gosh, Julie”. If only I’d known how good this was, I wouldn’t have been afraid.’

Many commented on the video that they had discovered immense comfort from watching Julie’s video. 

One grieving husband wrote: ‘My sweet wife just died in an auto accident at 42… this gives me hope I will see her again.’  ‘You are a credit to the nursing profession, Julie,’ a second wrote. 

Another heartwarming comment read: ‘Thank you Nurse Julie. My father passed on Saturday, March 8th. I am so grateful for your videos, they were such a big help while taking care of my father.’

‘I also have always had that homesick feeling for a place that doesn’t exist here on this earth or a place we can’t see in our human form,’ another observed.