Near-death Experiences

[Dondi]

Does anyone know someone who has had a near-death experience? In other words, their heart and breathing stopped for a short period of time, but were revived. Then related how they saw themselves on the operation table from above, gone through a tunnel, seen a bright light, met relatives who have passed on, seen Jesus, etc, etc. and the like. I'm just wondering if anyone has been through such an experience or know someone who has. What do you make of this sort of thing?

 

[kwillia]

A few years back, my dad was in ICU because of fluid on the lungs amongst other health issues. One morning when I went to visit him, he talked of a weird dream he had where he was up near the clock on the wall of the hospital looking at himself in bed. He was able to recall the time on the clock. He said he watched the nurse, he was able to name her, walk in and shake him. Then he woke up. He then said that when he told the nurse about it, she admitted to coming in because his pulse had taken a nose dive. He swears it was an out of body experience. I'm not doing this story justice because it has been so many years ago. Hearing him tell it in specific detail was very convincing to me.

 

[K_Jo]

Wow. That's crazy-freaky. I hope that never happens to me but it's an awesome story!

 

[Kain99]

I had a near death experience in 1991.... Nothing notable happened, in fact I don't even remember most of it. I believe in these experiences and worry that mine was blank.

 

[Dondi]

I had a near death experience in 1991.... Nothing notable happened, in fact I don't even remember most of it. I believe in these experiences and worry that mine was blank.

Why are you worried that yours was blank?

 

[ocean733]

My father had an experience similar to Kwillia's dad. He was an adolescent (about 13) and was in surgery. The same sort of thing about having the 'out of body' experience - about being able to see himself on the operating table and the people around him.

He would never really speak about it. He was generally a quiet man. He'd dodge the subject if it were brought up (usually with distraction or a joke) and I could never tell if the incident scared him or he was just being himself.

 

[RoseRed]

My Aunt was pronounced legally dead for 5 minutes, but she won't talk about her experience.

 

[Dondi]

For anyone wanting to investigate near-death experiences:

www.near-death.com

 

[marianne]

I know someone who died twice. He doesn't remember much about the first time as he was a kid when it happened. But he does remember the second time. I asked him if he had an out of body experience or saw a bright light. He laughed and said none of that happened. I asked him if he was worried that he didn't see a bright light. He said no. :shrug:

 

[Pete]

My Aunt was pronounced legally dead for 5 minutes, but she won't talk about her experience.

Did she have to sue the hospital or doctor to be alive again? If you are pronounced "legally dead" does the life insurance have to pay off? I mean you were "legally dead" afterall :shrug: the fact you came back to life is just tough noogies for them.

 

[rack'm]

If I was that close to death, the devil would keep me. :shrug:

 

[icebaby1111]

I'm not sure I believe in it, but my aunt claims this happened to her 4 years ago. She was having surgery and recalls being awake, seeing the doctor and nurses and seeing a bright light. After surgery was over she told the doctor what she had experienced and they told her that her heart did stop beating for 2 minutes and they were able to bring her back. The thought is it is very creepy.

 

[RoseRed]

Did she have to sue the hospital or doctor to be alive again? If you are pronounced "legally dead" does the life insurance have to pay off? I mean you were "legally dead" afterall :shrug: the fact you came back to life is just tough noogies for them.

I have no idea, I was only 4 and didn't think to ask such questions.

 

[jenpch]

Looking for NDE Speaker

There is a local group, known as the Bayside Wisdom Society. I am currently the hostess, which means I schedule speakers and make all of the arrangements for monthly meetings/sessions. These monthly get togethers are fee-free and open to the adult public - at least those who may share an interest in our topics. Most of our topics are of a metaphysical nature, such as exploring past lives; self-healing; finding life's harmony and balance; living a spiritually healthy life; astrology; iridology; hypnosis for personal development; and just for fun, we even had a paranormal investigator last fall. We have scheduled an Intuitive Reader for August and a Dream Interpreter for September. All sessions are held at the Northeast Community Center, Chesapeake Beach and are the last Tuesday of each month from 7-9 PM.

We'd very much like to find a speaker for the topic of Near Death Experiences. If anyone knows of a researcher, book author or other "expert" who would speak to our group on this topic, please let me know.

Thanks. Jen
Bayside-WS@comcast.net

 

[SamSpade]

I used to have a roommate who got thrown through a plate-glass door. It lodged in his torso and split him open from sternum to groin. He was medi-vac'ed to the hospital, and he lost so much blood, he'd been 'dead' and revived a handful of times.

I asked him if he had any such 'experience'. He said no. I asked him what he remembers after the incident. He said he remembered waking up to them pronouncing last rites on him.

After he got out he went back to the same bar and got drunk again.

 

[StanleyRugg]

Wow, I had a near death experience once. I invented a rocket to go to the moon. Not one you could sit in cause I wasn’t sure how I would get back or else I would have climbed right in, but I was sure I could get it there. I filled the tip top of the rocket with a bunch of paint balls I got at an auction over in Virginia. I figgered I would shoot the rocket and when it hit the moon it would leave a big paint mark I could see with my nephew Rod’s telescope. Well It was real real hot and some of the paintballs melted and was leaking so I crawled up on the ladder to put on some duck tape and I fell and walloped my head on a stump. I remember hearin harp music, then a saw Heather Locklear from TJ Hooker with wings coming out of her back like an angel and she had a box of Krisy Kreme donuts, a six pack of RC cola and a stack of Popular Mechanics magazines. I just knewed I was dead and in heaven and she was an angel. She was a callin my name Stannnnnleeeeyyyyy, Stannnnnnnleeeeeey. Was about then I woke up and it was Momma Rugg a callin my name and not Heather Locklear. I was a might disappointed at first but I was happy I wasn’t dead.

 

[2ndAmendment]

StanleyRugg, MPD,

Please have respect for those that would like a serious discussion.

 

[Dondi]

I'm just fascinated with the whole phenomona. What really give credance is the fact that some people have been able to describe events around them while totally unconscious or clinically dead. For example, I read about an 8-year old girl who was clinically dead for at least 19 minutes following a drowning in a pool. An EMT arrived and performed CPR and administered other techniques and she was rushed to the hospital, having never regained conciousness. Later, after she woke up, she saw the EMT, who she never met, and said something like, "Mommy, look, that's the man who was at the pool!" And she went on to describe what he did to her during his attempts to revive her. I mean, how can a person know unless they were out of their body? It's especially compelling when children are involve in near-deaths, as it would be difficult to try and make this sort of thing up.

At any rate, it lends to the imagination the idea that there really might be a soul. Granted, NDEs are for the most part anecdotal, but when you have amassed a good number of them, it no longer seems as subjective.

Here's some more interesting info on child NDEs:

http://www.iands.org/child.html

http://www.melvinmorse.com/e-cpp.htm

http://www.near-death.com/children.html

 

[migtig]

I died once. Had a great conversation with a really nice man - was just sitting right next to me. Never seen him before or since. We talked for a little while and he told me a few things and then said, you are going to be really cold now, but it'll be okay, and placed like a lap blanket around me, and that's when I woke up shivering in the hospital. Had no clue I had died until later. Then I asked the nurses, docs and cops about the really nice man who had held my hand and talked with me and they all looked at me like I was nuts.

 

[pixiegirl]

I've never been "dead" but very close and should have died. 13 years old riding in the back of a truck that flipped over. I got knocked out cold, flew into a drainage ditch filled with ice and water, toolbox full of tools landed on top of me then the truck on top of that. I remember the exact point where I got knocked out. I was sitting up, the truck started to swerve and I slid down on my back and hit my head on one of the wheel wells. The truck swerved the other way and I slid to the other side and hit the other wheel well and got knocked out. Naturally I don't remember the truck rolling or flying out of it. I do remember wondering what the hell was going on then I couldn't breathe (I guess when the toolbox landed on me it knocked the wind out of me) and wondering if I was dead or going to die. I woke up to a cop who had crawled under the wreckage screaming "I found her, she's breathing." I could hear my friend that was in the cab screaming that I was dead.

Out of the 5 people in the truck I was the only one who got hurt. Flight to PG shock trauma then another to Children's because my injuries were too serious for PG. They called my parents and basically told them to haul butt because they didn't know if I was going to live. Broken neck (C-1, it's amazing that I survived much less can walk), lacerated spleen and a cut through my face. I was in a pretty much morphine induced coma for several days while they waited for my halo to be made. The morning of surgery the head of Neurosurgery decided that I had the "perfect" break (nothing displaced) and didn't need the halo. My spleen had netted well and didn't need to come out. I was out of the hospital a week later.