Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 13

There is a moment that every family knows, or will know. A room, quiet. A person in a bed, breathing slowly. The people who love them, standing close, saying nothing, because there is nothing that is enough. And then the breath stops.

Source note. Labels: text and tradition. The account of the dying person, death approaching like a serpent, the last vision in which all worlds appear as one, the moment that seems an age, the two messengers, and the thumb-sized person drawn from the body, are from the Garuda Purana Saroddhara, chapter one, in the 1911 English translation by Ernest Wood and S. V. Subrahmanyam. The description of the fierce messengers belongs, in the text, to the sinful. The statement that the road brings happiness to the virtuous is chapter one, verse six.  ...