According to English media, David Bowie turned to God before he died

ENGLAND.- David Bowie reportedly sought solace in God during the final months of his life.

The legendary artist, 69, died on Sunday after a secret 18-month battle with cancer and while he had questioned organised religion throughout his career, according to close friends it had been a great source of comfort and strength towards the end.

“Despite some of the comments David made during his career from talking about dabbling with Christianity, Buddhism and Satanism, he reassessed everything when told he was terminally ill a year ago,” a source told The Sun.

They continued: “He concluded there was something greater than all of us and it may be some version of what others might call God”

“This was probably quite comforting. He certainly wasn’t scared of death.”

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Bowie a few months before his death

It was also to religion that his wife Iman appeared to turn on Sunday, posting a poignant message to her Instagram page on the day her husband passed away.

It read: ““The struggle is real, but so is God”

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He reportedly told pals, “you don’t get any atheists on the battlefield” in the months before his death. His final album Blackstar, which was released to coincide with his 69th birthday last week, was his “parting gift” to the world and contains many references to religion.

His second single Lazarus, was named after a miracle in the bible where a man who was brought back to life four days after his death.

The track, appearing to foreshadow his own death, started with the line: “Look up here, I’m in heaven.”

Spirituality had been a life long focus for the Ziggy Stardust singer.

In an unaired interview with 60 Minutes from 2003, Bowie discussed his search for a higher spiritual meaning.

“Searching for music is like searching for God,” he said.

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Picture of Lazarus video

“They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.”

“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always,” he told Beliefnet.com.

“It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.”

He added: “That’s the shock: All clichés are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God–so do I buy that one? If all the other clichés are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.”

Bowie died surrounded by his family in New York and according to the report had decided before his death to be cremated.

While no plans have been confirmed for his memorial, it will most likely be kept a private affair.

Source: Mirror

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