For months after my mother’s death, I contemplated and asked my spirit guides to help me to understand why she and so many others suffer before passing over. I learned that although it appears to make no sense and be a cruel way to live out the last days of life, the soul doesn’t abide by our human perceptions. On some level, we accept and create all that happens to us. It is not our conscious mind or personality and ego that makes these choices. Instead, it is the soul and spirit that perceives value, evolutionary advancement and possibilities in what in human terms is senseless and merciless.
In my mother’s case, my guides told me that my mother chose to suffer in this way to “burn off” negativity and karma before entering the higher vibrations of light. In this way, she was able to leave behind and dissolve emotional, mental, spiritual, and even physical patterns and accumulated energy that may prevent her from rising to higher blissful layers of light more quickly upon passing.