During their NDEs, people sometimes report meeting with relatives they did not know were dead. In all cases they are correct. Dr. P.M.H. Atwater reports a case of a woman who talked with her father during her NDE. Neither she nor anyone in her family was aware that the father had died only five minutes before the woman had her car/truck accident and her NDE (Atwater 2007:164).
She also reports that during his NDE, Lloyd Haymon saw his pet parrot sitting on his deceased brother's shoulder. He later learned that the parrot had died for no apparent reason while the paramedics were trying to resuscitate Lloyd following his heart attack (Atwater 2007:163). Similar cases were reported by Dr. Ian Stevenson and Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.