Have you ever had a near death experience- or died and came back?

Question

Did you see the light? Did your life flash before your eyes??

Answer 1

Long story...too long to tell the whole thing here. But I was dead for almost four hours and resucitated by a nurse who was told to discontinue CPR and pronounced dead by an ER physician. She came back and continued CPR because it was the anniversary of her brother's death in the exact same emergency room and she wasn't going to lose me the way she lost him.

I should be brain dead. My blood oxygen level was 72%...dead as a rock. One of my prize posessions is a copy or a chart from being in an ICU suite where the doctor scrawled "miracle of God" across the page.

Nope...no bright lights or tunnels. I ended up in some kind of wayside in a fog...along a gravel road. I knew I might as well sit at this picnic table because if I walked into the fog, I wouldn't get anywhere and just sort of stay in the same place. A man dressed in a fishing hat and black and white checked coat came and talked to me. I couldn't unerstand him but he understood what I said. His job was to figure out what to do with me. I must have been a difficult case because he called in another being to help him decide. And then...POOF...the scene changed.

I was in a hallway of what seemed to be like an abandoned air-force base. There were other people there...we never got hungry, never had to go to the bathroom and had no concept of time. I knew time passed, because people came and went. And nobody really talked much because there was just no point. All we needed to do was sit on the floor and wait. I think this had something to do with time in the world I came from...like waiting for the right time to "come around again" or the proper time to "reinsert" me back in time.

All I know is I regained consciousness in an emergency room. All of a sudden there was a nurse in my face asking "do you know where you are?" And all of a sudden there were about 15 people working on me. I couldn't move much, but I knew I was in an emergency room and what had happened. I knew I had been dead for a while so I started doing things like multiplication tables and ABC's in my head to see if I was brain damaged. To my amazement, I wasn't.

The strangest part is I am not sure about the nature of death. I may have died in some other world...and was put into this one. I am not absolutely sure I came back to the one I left.

And...for those of you that doubt this story...it is true. I have the chart, I later talked to the nurse who resusitated me to thank her and learned about her brother's death. The ER report said I was brought in by an ambulance that had found me with no pulse or repiration, but administerred oxygen and chest compressions for a 40 mile drive to the hospital as its standard procedure.

I am not sure where I was or why all this happened. I don't believe in heaven or hell...but I believe there is more out there than we know. And I believe we will find out more...if not in this life, then in the next...or the next...or the next. Life is eternal and will never stop just because a body dies.

A PS to the person above me...an interesting experience much like mine. But your BP must have been incorrect. 0/27 means your resting pressure was more than the pressure of your heart beat. Blood can not flow backwards through your heart valves. Did you mean 27/0? That is possible, but means you really were so close to dieing your heart was barely moving each time it beat.

(I teach medicine at a college...so I do know a bit about blood pressures).

Answer 2

My life did not flash before my eyes at all. I was too busy begging the doctor to save me from the severe anaphylactic reaction. I went into cardiac arrest but wasn't awake for that obviously. I was awake long enough to keep talking to or trying to talk to one of the ER doctors and to hear him say my blood pressure at 0/27 must be a mistake since I was talking to him. Then a nurse had me breathe from this stretchy white thing and I was out till I woke up in the step down unit. No life flashing before my eyes. My thoughts were limited to THAT moment in time.

Wasn't till a week out of the step down intensive care unit that I started thinking about more about things like what could have happened and what would have been lost forever, etc.

I've heard of people say they had angels visit them though. A paraplegic I once knew said that happened to him...and if he said it, I'd believe it coz he's a sane person and not overly religious.

Answer 3

I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, but someone/something told me I wasnt done yet here on earth, so i came back. A friend that was with me when it happened said it looked like i passed out...

Answer 4

Near death experience, yes...but no light for me.

Answer 5

on the same time as we would desire to prepare tolerance and admire for others and their ideals, which contain their top to describe and advise their positions, we are no longer required to admire and tolerate incorrect habit. Our accountability to certainty demands us to hunt for alleviation from habit it is incorrect. it somewhat is elementary with severe behaviors that maximum believers and nonbelievers understand as incorrect or unacceptable. As to much less-severe behaviors, the place even believers disagree on no count if or no longer they're incorrect, the character and quantity of what we would desire to continuously tolerate is a lot harder to define. for this reason, a considerate Latter-day Saint female wrote me approximately her concern that “the international’s definition of ‘tolerance’ looks an increasing form of used with regards to tolerating wicked existence.” She asked how the Lord might define tolerance.5 President Boyd ok. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, has reported: “The be conscious tolerance would not stand on my own. It demands an merchandise and a reaction to qualify it as a distinctive characteristic. … Tolerance is often demanded yet seldom returned. pay attention of the be conscious tolerance. it somewhat is an quite volatile distinctive characteristic.”

Answer 6

I had advanced cancer in 1996 with a 40-50% chance of survival.

Answer 7

almost i was playing basketball in the night with my friends and i fell down in the streets and i was like what happened and then while i was on the floor i saw this light to my right and i was like oh my god am i dead and it turned out to be the head lights of a car LMAO sorry i didnt answer right im just bored

Answer 8

Hmm

I remember going into shock while I was sleeping [I guess that's close it's dangerous either way]...I didn't see a bright light I saw a black hole with people screaming at me to back away and wake up...

Answer 9

When i was 4 or 5 years old i had almost drowned. and yes there was a light it was blinding and then my dad saved me it didn't last long.

Answer 10

I had such an experience when I was in the hospital undergoing an operation.... no white light, no tunnel... just peace!