Hi John,
 
I'd like to ask you if I can post a question about this to the Doves.
 
Last night I watched a new TV show on the Discovery Channel called "I Shouldn't Be Alive."  It's about some incredible stories of survival.  This first premier episode was about a five person crew of a sailboat caught out at sea, sunk, and stranded on a raft floating out to the middle of the Atlantic for five days.  Of the five crew, only two survived to tell the story.
 
Ironically, or maybe not all that ironically, the woman survivor mentioned God more than once and the man survivor had cursed God once.  The others didn't seem to ever mention or even acknowledge Him.  The part of the story that was glossed over a bit was the story of the last person to die.  While escaping the sinking ship, this girl sustained a very severe cut to her leg.  After a few days, the cut became infected and she became increasingly delirious.  Apparently, the night she finally succumbed, she was staring at the other two with an ominous look in her eyes, then suddenly lunged at one of them and tried to beat and choke him.  When she was pushed back, she stared up at the stars, began waving and twisting her hands the way a belly-dancer would, and then broke into tongues.  Yes, she was speaking in tongues.  The show made her look evil and I think that was the impression given by the surviving woman.
 
The image from the show is now etched in my mind and I'm wondering if anyone out there has ever heard of, or read about, or has Biblical references to a dying person suddenly becoming possessed.  My two theories about the incident were these:
 
1 - On her death bed, she had cursed Christ and lost all hope (her husband had, the day before, drank gallons of salt-water, became delirious himself, and jumped off the raft only to be heard screaming as the sharks ate him.)  At the moment she lost all hope and rejected Christ with no chance of reversal, she opened herself up to the demons around her.
 
2  - Theory two is that she had been possessed all her life.  And when her soul had left her body, all that was left was the demon(s).
 
I have nothing to back that up except what I've read about the dark angels, demons and minions that are all around us.  I've never heard about anything like this - near-death possession.  Again, has anyone else heard anything similar to this and/or have any Biblical knowledge or insight?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Your in Christ
 
- Andrew