Accounts of dying and coming back, witnessing hell or heaven?

Question

I was wondering if there are any accounts online that I can view of people who have died and were given a second chance to live and lived to tell what they exeperience.
I was introduced to two stories that were about people dying and experiencing hell.
I just want to know if there are any accounts online that I can read.
I DONT WANT YOUR OPINION.
I could careless if you believe it to be true.

Answer 1

Here's one about a father with a boy who had a NDE. I've heard it and several others recently, but this is the only one I can think of at the top of my head which is on the internet. I hope it helps a bit, though.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/birdies.asp

Answer 2

Sorry to burst your bubble, but yes there is a white light at the end of the tunnel that light is what you would call a glitch in your brain. As you die your memories go haywire and you are flooded with pictures giving the illusion of recollection. The white light is just an illusion created by the chaotic tumbling of a dying soul that will never be alive again.

Answer 3

I've personally had a near death experience, and I did not witness heaven or hell.

My experience was of a cave and sharing a moment's awareness of Fenrir Wolf (of Norse mythology) being with me.

There's nothing mystical about it, it's a neurological process.

Answer 4

I know a man that died and went to heaven, his name is Don Piper. He is a pastor and I've read his book called 90 Minutes in Heaven. He also came to my church and gave his testimony.

Answer 5

I saw two on Hollywood TV.

Answer 6

near death experiences are a purely neurological and chemical phenomena occurring in the brain. According to this perspective the NDE results from neurobiological mechanisms, related to such factors as anomalous temporal-lobe functioning, epilepsy, compression of the optic nerve (one possible cause of the tunnel sensation), chemical changes in the brain related to serotonin and endorphins, and general changes in brain functioning (Mauro, 1992; Britton and Bootzin, 2004).

The similarities amongst the experiences of the many documented cases of NDE are understood by skeptics to signify that the pathology of the brain during the dying and reviving process is more or less the same in all humans, as suggested by Russian specialist Dr. Vladimir Negovsky (Pravda, 2004).

One example of how the process of brain death might produce an aspect of the NDE is that those who undergo NDEs often feel as if they are traveling through a tunnel or narrow passageway. According to Jack Cowan, a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago, brain activity that is normally kept stable is debilitated in the dying patient due to the lack of oxygen that the brain experiences when it nears death, generating stripes of activity that move across the cortex (1982). Using brain mapping, Cowan is able to demonstrate how the stripes in the cortex would appear like concentric rings or spirals, creating the visualization of tunnel-like patterns.

Skeptics believe that the contention that NDEs are proof of an afterlife is not scientific (Carey, 119), because the characteristic effects of an NDE are perceptible only to the experient, and so it is impossible for researchers to observe the phenomenon directly. Thus, the belief that NDEs are the beginning of an afterlife cannot be scientifically verified.

Among the studies which support a naturalistic interpretation we find the research of Blanke et al. (2002), published in Nature Magazine [3], who found that electrical stimulation of the brain region known as the right angular gyrus repeatedly caused out-of-body experiences in the patient[4]; though the patient did not report seeing her own face, for example. Researchers have largely been unsuccessful in running proactive experiments to establish out-of-body consciousness. There have been numerous experiments in which a random message was placed in a hospital in a manner that it would be invisible to patients or staff yet visible to a floating being, but these experiments have provided no clear signs of ESP. (Blackmore, 1991) Michael Persinger who has also researched stimulation of the temporal lobes of the brain has also found evidence above chance levels for esp functioning within his experiements. [4]

One hypothesis used to explain NDEs was originally suggested by Dr. Karl Jansen (1995;1997) and deals with accounts of the side-effects of the drug Ketamine. Ketamine was used as an anesthetic on U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War, but its use was limited as the soldiers complained about sensations of floating above their body and seeing bright lights. (Ketamine is now employed variously in the UK and Europe as an 'emergency' anaesthetic, an animal tranquilliser and a recreational drug.) Further experiments by numerous researchers verified that intravenous injections of ketamine could reproduce all of the commonly cited features of an NDE; including a sense that the experience is "real" and that one is actually dead, separation from the body, visions of loved ones, and transcendent mystical experiences. Ketamine acts in part by blocking the NMDA receptor for the neurotransmitter glutamate. Glutamate is released in abundance when brain cells die, and if it weren't blocked, the glutamate overload would cause other brain cells to die as well. In the presence of excess glutamate, the brain releases its own NMDA receptor blocker to defend itself; and it is these blockers Dr. Jansen (amongst others) hypothesize as the cause of many NDEs.

Critics of Jansen's hypothesis point out that although some aspects of the experience may be similar, not all NDEs exactly fit the ketamine experience; and that while it might be possible to chemically simulate the experience, this does not refute the possibility that spontaneous NDEs have a spiritual component. As Dr. Jansen himself notes:

Claims that NDE's must have a single explanation (e.g. Ring, 1980), or that a scientific theory must explain all of the experiences ever given the name of NDE (e.g. Gabbard and Twemlow, 1989) are difficult to justify (Jansen, 1995).

Indeed Dr. Jansen's own shifting perspective on the conclusions to be drawn from the ketamine-NDE analogy has been notable. He started out as an unequivocal debunker of the notion that NDE's are evidence of a spiritual (or at least transnormal) realm. But with time he has developed a more agnostic hypothesis: that ketamine may in fact be one particularly powerful trigger of authentic spiritual experiences - of which near-death may be another. In each case, according to Jansen's more recent pronouncements, all we can say is that the subject gets catapulted out of ordinary 'egoic' consciousness into an altered state - we cannot comfortably rule out the possibility that the 'worlds' disclosed in these 'trips' have ontological status. Latterly, therefore, Jansen's position appears closer to thinkers like Daniel Pinchbeck (2002), who has written a book on hallucinogenic shamanism, and other names like Carl Jung, Ken Wilber and Stanislav Grof, than to thinkers like Susan Blackmore or Nicholas Humphrey, who represent a skeptical position.

Related to the findings of Jansen we find the work of Strassman (2001) who induced near death experiences (in addition to some different naturally-occurring altered states of being) in a clinical setting by injecting subjects with DMT, a powerful psychedelic tryptamine. Because DMT is a chemical that is produced endogenously in the human pineal gland it might be relevant to the study of NDE's and other mystical, religious, and transpersonal experiences. Related to the findings of Jansen we also find the theory of Shawn Thomas (2004), director of Neurotransmitter.net, who has suggested that the neurotransmitter agmatine is the key substance involved in near-death experiences [5].

It is generally accepted that some people who reported NDEs were shown to have approached the clinical boundary between life and death. However, in support of a naturalistic interpretation of NDE's one infrequently argues that it is shown that the experiences themselves took place in any time other than just before the clinical death, or in the process of being revived. In altered states of consciousness such as this and during dream states or under the influence of drugs, the subjective perception of time is often dilated. It should also be noted that Susan Blackmore's "Dying Brain Hypothesis" has been soundly refuted by recent studies conducted in the Netherlands on the physiological mechanisms of a so-called dying brain.

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So - you will find no such account, even though you will find many alleged accounts.