For those who have momentarily died, then come back to life again?

Question

My grandpa was hospitalized a couple of years ago because of a heart attack, and had died for a minute or two. He was thankfully revived and is now alive and well today, and told me about how he had this out-of-body experience, saw a white light, etc while he had died.

Have any of you actually experienced something like this before? Or heard similar stories from other people? Ive always been curious about what happens after death and stories like these just seem to back the idea that there actually is life after death.

Answer 1

Here is a link that explains near death experiences: http://www.gnosticweb.com/index.php?PageID=477

Here is a question and answers session from a known expert on near death experiences. http://www.gnosticweb.com/index.php?PageID=389

These two short articles explain things better than anything else I have seen and hold true as far as my personal experiences have shown me.

Answer 2

A relative of mine had an near death experience. They saw everything happening and were hovering over their body but there was a pop noise before they died. They said it was so peaceful, but there were dark shadows around, then all of a sudden there was a pop noise and they were back in their body.

Answer 3

My experience was not in the white light style nor was I spoken to by an outside source, mine was not an 'out of body' experience. I couldn't see myself as I actually was. I saw something that my mind ( or some external source created)

. As I lay dying. I experienced standing behind myself looking over my own shoulder while I was sitting on a sofa reading about my own death in a newspaper, There were no sounds, no smells, there was the absence of everything which was not the sofa just blackness.

I came out of this experience sure that this happened in order to stop me dying. I do not know if I am responsible. I know since this that life is all I can experience and that any form of experience beyond life is either none or is so different to life that it is not in a format which we can understand until the reality that created the definitions 'we' and 'I' dissappears, until all ego and life is gone.

I was not ready and mine was the internal voice that said I cannot stay here.

I do not understand this yet so in order to give you a little insight into it, it helps to contextualise: I was 20 years old at the time. I do not follow any religion, I love buddhism and daoism, I do not belive in the god of Christianity (who's followers more readily see white light at death ). I do believe in an ineffable force beyond our description and not confined by existence or reality which is empirically observable in all Quality. I am described as having a "heart of gold". I believe in a system which incorporates both destiny and free will.

Good luck with where the thoughts you now have take you!
If your grandad has got you thinking there's plenty more thinking to do.
Buff.

Answer 4

March,22nd,2013
about 7:30 Am I was loaded into a helicopter I remember laughing and the helicopter para medics yelling my name.
The chopper was setting down on the roof of the hospital as the skids touched the roof I looked at the pilot in his rearview mirrior he said Oh !@ lights out for me.
I awoke in darkeness and felt a hand shove me and seen a streak of light pass my eyes and heard someone yell not yet!
Next I am on a table in an operating room floating toward this lime green checkered ceiling I see a body on a table to my left and a body on the table to my right. then im fighting swinging I hear people yelling my name over and over. then I pass out. the 23rd is my oldest daughters birthday and the 25 is mine.
I awake 6 days later with tubes down my throat and center of my chest and in the groin I count 23 IV bags around me.
The day I died my right ventricle collapsed , Pulmonary arterie collapsed, had focal hemmorages in the lungs my lungs filled with blood. They did cpr on me for 18 plus minutes and shocked me to many times to count. I had ARDS of the lungs and my heart collapsed and all my organs shutdown.
They told my wife 8 percent chance of survival and most likely blind and brain damaged. The vessels ruptered in my eyes from blood gas expantion when my heart stopped.
Day 10 in hospital they tell me I will be there about 90 days or more I start fighting with them and tell them im going home to Oklahoma And At day 12 i gave them such fits they have me sign releases and wheel me to the front door of the hospital in minneapolis and leave me there my wife picks me up the 10 foot I walked to the car felt like a thousand mile marathon run.
6 days later im sitting at my desk running my crew back at work!
I am 42 now a veteran of the Army And A screaming Eagle of the 101st Airborne
I am currently disabeled due to my lungs failing and on Oxygen 24/7 still run around and get out.
NY Stage 3 heart failure.
Me I was allergic to an Antibiotic and did not know that is how All of this happened to me.
Is There an after life? you bet your butt there is and what you do in this life will reflect upon you in the next!

Answer 5

I saw a program about this on discovery health one night.
They were saying that some people in er who had died
actualy described what was being said...and the people who were died /and revived said they left their body and could see everything like they were a spectator. One or two cases said they went to another location and described something there or someone or something someone said that they could not have possibly known unless they were there. The doctors started to research if there was infact a consciousness after we die. One lady said she saw a red shoe on the roof of the hospital. So they sent a nurse and sure enough there was a red shoe up there.

Answer 6

Dr. Maurice Rawlings, who has been a cardiologist for more than 30 years wrote about the near deaths he witnessed and he also relates some of the testimonies regarding these experiences as told to him by his patients. "Beyond Death's Door" is one of his books.

Answer 7

i have died while having two heart valves replaced. I didn't get to see the light or go to a tunnel but i could hear doctor lapkin saying he had to shock me and i could see his face. why i only saw his face is beyond me but I am lucky to come back and be alive. I still think why couldn't i just stay but I knew i had to come back to my kids and be a grandma soon. my name is julie ruckman/morris and that is my story.

Answer 8

They're called ndes, not out of body experiences and many millions of people around the world have experienced them. I did sixteen years ago when I was critically ill. Went down the tunnel , saw the white light, most warm and loving experience I've had interacting with that light. Heard my grandmothers and my father's voices . Was in a verdant garden and was hyper sensitive to colours, sound, smells.

The white light communicated to me that I had not finished what I was supposed to do so had to go back to earth, but when I was done I would be allowed back .

It made me more tolerant to others' religious and spiritual traditions and more sure that there is indeed a loving and caring God .

Answer 9

I have, because of a seizure due to abscess of brain, during the seizure I died, that part I would never want to see again...My transition so to speak was fast it seems it was like this in description.. go to a clear calm lake..blue sky clear of clouds and the sun above you, swim down so many feet then roll over and open your eyes and look up...the way you see the sun is like the light with no need to squint..It dosnt come down to you, it spreads around you then huggs you into it...you feel lke being embraced by the softest blanket, silk and rabbit fur...its warm like putting on clothes out of the dryer...
your next in a place like a beautiful garden, flowers, trees..little animals and stuff..but there are no shadows there not even behind the trees.. everything there has its own glow of energy everything is glowing..as you are overwhelmed at the beauty with in the blink of a eye...I and I say I because I understand its different for everybody ws in a movie theater with other people or spirits...I never actually seen my self, but I was there and had no reason to look....I knew I was with a man..I didnt have to see him, I knew who it was..I was setting next to the good lord himself, I wish I had of looked at his face but not knowing what was going to happen and the fact I was so amazed at what I did see and how within a blink I was in one spot then another then another I knew who I was with and didnt look, its just so familiar and comfortable that you just know I would like to say I heard people laughing at the movie, but no..I felt them laughing...Even the good lord was finding it amusing and I could feel it..a that time I looked to see.. the movie playing was clips of my life from childhood and going into adulthood..I even started to laugh because it was showing funny things and all the good selfless things Ive done in my life, things had totally forgot about.. I found it so funny that somebody collected all the best of my life and the funniest things that I turned to tell him with excitement that hey..thats me.. as I turned while saying it to face him, before I seen his face, I was here again...Ive since had my brain surgery and had the abscess removed, I had to like a baby learn to talk again, write again just like a baby...feed myself and since all this Ive had a sense of loss...trying to find something that I had..or a piece of me and dont know what it is. I search and the thought of it and not knowing what it is drives me. Ive been told Im a different person so to speak, people Ive always known smile at me like a seeing a little kid and Im told they have all they can do not to pinch my cheek...Im 52...I dont feel like Im different but told Im a more peaceful person to be around.. but to me Im the same..its just the feeling that something is missing now and I dont know what it is and therefor dont know where to look or what it is...I dont know if this is help for anybody, But I do know Im not afraid of the afterlife

Answer 10

I was very sick and was near death with Asiatic flu for days I was told was not fully conscious most of the time during this time I saw and talked to people I had close relationships’ with at various times in my life from 2yrs old to maybe 9 or 10yrs old they spoke to me of things like being a good girl and to very honest honor respect and help others and to trust and believe in God and always say my prayers I did not notice while the communication was in progress that there was no walls floors not really a place of which I could describe or sense even being warm cold light or dark The people I spoke to seemed to all enteract with calmness a pleasant mellow encounter with each and every person no one seemed up tight all seemed happy and very calm I even eat some tea cakes made by a woman that was like a grandmother to me she always made them for all the children at some point one by one they began saying there good byes lots of hugs and kisses the last one was the elder grandma I started crying and did not want her to leave she told me she had to go now but would really always be with me even If I could not see her I just kept trying to convince her to take me with her she finally told me she was dead and It was not my time to go and I must go back and remember things I was told and everything was going to be fine she then just floated out the window and disappeared I woke up with people starring at me after getting my strength back and on my feet I began to tell the grownups about all the people that I saw and talked to they were all surprised when I said I had spoke to grandma and she was not coming back from down home cause she was dead the wanted to know how I knew she had passed away who told me I told them she did they never believed me cause when I was a child grown folk did not tell young children of people passing away they would say they went back south or down home to visit relatives or to stay with them for a while as I got older I found out of each and every one of them passing away when I was a little girl from what I was told I was near death for almost a week with that flu to me I feel I was not dead but close enough to see people from the other side I think if I had died they were there to help or guide me over








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