NADINE DORRIES: I believe death is not the end. That's the only explanation for so many things I've...

As an 18-year-old trainee nurse I was working on a paediatric ward during a whooping cough epidemic. Parents were only allowed to visit for two hours a day: 2-3pm in the afternoon and 6-7pm in the evening.

I was reminded of this unnerving event while reading about the experiences of Julie McFadden in Saturday's Mail and The Mail on Sunday. As a palliative care nurse, she has been at the bedside of numerous dying patients and seen and heard many things that she cannot explain, from the presence of a comforting 'angel' to the reassuring visions experienced by people in their final hours.

I have faced similar situations in my personal life, too. In her final hours, my mother-in-law, who was being treated for a brain tumour, sat up in bed as I fed her shepherd's pie. We laughed and talked and I believed the surgery had worked. I didn't recognise the pity in the eyes of the nurse. I stupidly didn't recognise the phenomenon for what it was - terminal lucidity, the sudden surge or a rally which happens in a small number of patients and lasts long enough to say the unsaid.

Julie McFadden says her experiences have convinced her that death is nothing to be afraid of. That is certainly what my 97-year-old uncle believed. He was a wonderful man, a devout Catholic who, long before he passed, told me that dying was the thing he feared least in life. Nadine with her late husband Paul. Just after he died a female deer ran into the garden belonging to the family, who are all addressed as Doe

Advertisement The congregation gasped, and one of the priests grinned. 'There you have it,' he said as he pointed to the beam of light. 'That's his first class ticket to heaven sent straight by God himself, right there.'

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