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So my grandfather has been slowly dying for the past couple years. He’s in the hospital right now on oxygen with some type of viral disease due to his asthma… everyone in my family has been holding onto him a little too tightly.
He is very aware he is dying and makes jokes about it to me frequently. I think he’s staying for the family.
My grandmother is the main caretaker and she’s also in her 80s. She is really depressed and tired but she won’t put him in a home because he’s still aware.
I was wondering if there is a spell to help him and my family transition through this time. I am fairly new to witchcraft and don’t really have any supplies yet.
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Spell to help my grandparents/family deal with dying
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In my family’s time working with the elderly sometime the best “spell” is to tell the dying person that its okay. My mom(she’s the one that works the most hands on with dying people) always says people hold on out of a desire to not hurt their families, or fear that their families won’t be okay. For the rest of your family I would do a healing candle, the biggest blue candle you can find, and carve in something like “it will hurt but we will heal” and light it.
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Ive never heard about spells to deal with death and dying, but that is where Buddhism becomes very beneficial to me.
A bit of background: i became a Buddhist Pagan in 2014. MY mom died in 2017 and i learned detachment before that time. Attachments lead to pain and suffering. Learn to separate yourself from your experiences. You are the *observer in the meat suit* so to speak.
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The Buddhist Approach to Death
Buddhism encourages people to prepare for death by living mindful, clear-eyed lives. Buddhist practices help us accept our finite lives. Experienced mindfulness meditators have a deeper appreciation for moment-to-moment impermanence – the arising and passing away of all things. The ability to practice mindfulness on one’s deathbed is considered one of the most opportune times for liberation. We are ready for the ultimate letting go – of life!
With deep mindfulness, the ordinary mind and its delusions die at life’s very end. When we realize death is near, the boundless sky-like nature of our mind is uncovered. So it is vital for us all to familiarize ourselves with the nature of mind while we are still alive. Only then will we be prepared when it reveals itself spontaneously and powerfully as death approaches. We recognize it, says Sogyal Rinpoche, “as naturally as a child running into its mother’s lap.”
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Might be easier to take as a group prayer than coming right out as witchcraft. Gather your family together and just be together, try to share as many stories as you can with your grandfather before he passes. The more you all remember what a beautiful, wonderful life he’s built the more you can help them accept him moving to the great beyond, onto a new adventure.
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I literally came to join this group for the same type of question. My girlfriends grandmother is currently dying from a severe illness right now and we honestly believe it’s from a witch who came into her family a while ago to do some stuff for her aunt who had the same illness. The witch didn’t like my girlfriend and she feels she put a spell on her aunt which was the reasoning for her death. If she is cursed, is there a way to protect her and me from the curse? I wouldn’t want my girlfriend to somehow acquire this illness and die the same way. Her grandfather, aunt and now grandma will all be a 6 year difference. Coincidence?
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