So I use to be on the fence about this question until my mother past away almost two years ago. My mother past away of cancer. She had a stroke about three weeks before she past and was in a hospital bed at the house. My brother's two year old daughter at the time wouldn't go in the room with her because she didn't like the bed that grandma was in. It scared her. Well the day before she past my brother and his family went to visit our parents. His daughter told them that she needed to say goodbye to grandma before the went home. Early the next morning my father called to tell me that mom had past. That morning my brother heard the little one up early in the morning, so he went to check on her. She told him to be quite becasue her and grandma were reading a book. Over the next two weeks or so this happened another two times. The first time it happened it was before they told her that grandma was no longer with us. I'm a believer that something happens to our souls when we pass from the physical world as we know it.

I love and miss you mom! I know your watching over the family from somewhere!