Has anyone died and seen the light or had a strange experience with death?
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Not me, but my dad had a mild stroke over 10 years ago and he was telling us about how he had this "dream' that his ma and pa who have been dead for years told him to was too soon to come with them. Talk about freaky!! He is doing sooo well now a days!
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I had what today is termed a "Near-Death Experience" or N.D.E. in 1972 when I was 12 years old before any of today's popular books and videos on the subject had been produced.  What I experienced had absolutely nothing in common with what I had been taught about death via my parents or religious upbringing.  I am now 46 and have been studying the phenomenon ever since.  I have many books, videos, and CDs about N.D.E.s in my library, so I consider myself very knowledgeable about the subject.  In addition, I am a college honors graduate, member of Outstanding College Students of America, a former College Bowl All Star (like the TV show "Jeopardy" except for American college students), and worked for many years as a professional journalist.  I was a pre-med major when I first entered college and am fairly well versed in modern science.  Bottom line:  N.D.E.s have been reported since the beginning of time (see Heironymous Bosch's paiting "Ascent of the Blessed" - circa 1450-1500.) and have absolutely nothing to do with the physical body or physical brain which Is Not the Seat of Consciousness as some would have you believe.  Many people who have experienced N.D.E.s had absolutely no brain activity, their hearts had stopped, their breathing had stopped, their eyes were closed, they were lying on a hospital gurney, and some even had their body temperatures quickly brought below freezing and all of their blood removed from their entire bodies; but these people were miraculously able to describe not only what the doctors did while they were clinically dead from a vantage point above their bodies but also were able to accurately describe conversations and events that took place in other parts of the hospital or even other parts of the world while they were "dead."  Unless you are very foolish indeed, the evidence suggests that consciousness survives physical death and can exist apart from the physical body.  What we now call N.D.E.s are reported by humans all over the world and tend to feature special characteristics.  Those characteristic include:  Separation from the physical body.  Floating above the physical body.  The appearance of a large tunnel of light.  Being sucked or drawn through the tunnel at what seems to be an incredibly high speed.  A unique and beautiful light at the end of the tunnel.  A doorway or portal at the end of the tunnel.  The appearance of deceased relatives, friends, or a recognizable religious figure who communicates telepathically and often escorts an N.D.E. recipient through the tunnel.  Usually in teens and adults, a three-dimensional, holographic-style "life review" in which the N.D.E. recipient not only sees, hears, and feels everything they've ever thought and done while physically alive, but also experiences what others felt and experienced as a result of their actions or inactions.  The N.D.E. recipient usually judges him or herself, but those whose consciences are very limited may have another spiritual being interpret for them.   Some have described this as having thier "life flash in front of them."  A being of light connected to the tunnel who communicates telepathically and may appear at the end of the tunnel near the door or portal.  Feelings of complete peace with no suffering or pain normally associated with the physical body.  Heightened intellectual awareness and sensitivity.  Sudden awareness of events, wisdom, or knowledge far beyond the normal scope of the person experiencing the N.D.E.  The ability to see or hear things beyond the normal scope of the human body.  The ability to travel over great distances at perhaps great speeds without any apparent aid through the exercise of conscious thought.  Not all N.D.E. recipients will report all of these characteristics or experiences, but they will report some of them because these core experiences are common to N.D.E.s.  Cultural or religious upbringing sometimes can in
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My fiance and I were on our way to Reno to get married....Our best friends were in the car with us...\nWe got into a head on collision, and my fiance died 3 days later in the hospital.  So, looking back on it, when I seen him in the vehicle gasping for air after the wreck, I was actually watching him die..........\nGod Rest his soul! ! ! ! \nI hope you never have to witness anything like that in your lifetime.....\nGoodaytoyou !
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I believe that when we die we live on in some way. When I was a toddler I lived in a house where strange things happened, some centered around me and I told my mother and father that there was a lady waiting for me at the top of the stairs. It turned out that a lady had died in that house. I have also seen a ghost cat which I actually thought was my own, so imagine my surprise when I went to look for it and mine was outside in the garden. I dreamt that my grandmother was going to die before she did. I also saw a black figure in my cousins house which has since been seen by other family members.
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One time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."\n\nI have no alien stories
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I have had a near-death experience, and I gotta tell you, it ain't just over and out.  It is more than just biology.  I can believe in an immortal soul because of this experience, even though I couldn't describe it in the least.
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Here's what All About has to say in regards to this subject.\n\n___________\n\nWhat have we learned from life after death experiences? \n\nWe have all heard stories of people who have seemed to be dead - without vital signs for several minutes - only to be revived. Many of these people tell of traveling at high speeds through tunnels or of seeing brilliant white lights or even of coming face to face with God. \n\nThese life after death experiences raise many questions that directly reflect on Christianity - questions like, "What happens when we die?" and "Is it possible to communicate with the dead?" \n\nEven Christian believers disagree on what the Bible says on these matters. Some say those who die fall into a kind of dreamless sleep until Judgment Day. Others say the souls of the dead are immediately subjected either to Heaven or Hell, depending on whether they believe in Jesus. Still others say our souls remain conscious, but exist in a kind of limbo until the Day of Judgment arrives. \n\nLife after death experiences presuppose the soul remains conscious and aware after death. Those who have these experiences often report they retain the ability to see, to hear, to think, to feel - but they are unable to communicate with anyone. While the experience may be confusing, people report they are suffused with joy - partly as the result of being removed from the suffering of the body. \n\nIt is interesting that many life after death experiences are accompanied by a distinct sense of being two people - one physical and one spiritual. And the spiritual being is completely indifferent to the suffering self. \n\nPerhaps this is one reason the Apostle Paul tells us to die to ourselves, putting God ahead of our selfish desires: \n\n"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). \n\nResearchers report that about one in seven of those who are revived in such circumstances report seeing a brilliant light or even beings they interpret as angels, Jesus, or God. Some people report a sense of having their lives "reviewed." \n\nThe effect of the review is often beneficial and may lead some to accept God, others to rededicate themselves to what they perceive as God's purpose for them. \n\nSome Christians have claimed that after-death experiences are beyond the purview of God and are therefore demonic in nature. But it seems unlikely that being subjected to demonic influences would lead so many people to a closer walk with God. \n\nIn Luke 9:50, Jesus is asked by His followers what to do about a man who is casting out demons even though he is not a disciple. Jesus replies, "Do not stop him, for whoever is not against you is for you." \n\nIn fact, for God to be truly omnipotent, He must be in control of these sojourns into death. Perhaps He uses them to direct His people. \n\n\nLife After Death: Why is it Such a Hot Topic?\nLife after death -- Why all the interest? Combine events like September 11th with the demographic phenomenon of the Baby Boom generation reaching its 50’s, and suddenly the reality of death from catastrophe and death from mere old age are upon us in a personal way. \n\nSo, it appears that more and more people are asking the same question that Job asked nearly 4,000 years ago in the Bible: "If a man dies, will he live again?" What could be a more fundamental question of life (and death)? Reincarnation theories are popular in Eastern religions as well as the many New Age variants. It seems people are comfortable with the idea of another chance to return to earth and figure things out or make things right. Some nihilist thinkers believe that death is the absolute end; but contrary to what many might think, most people believe that death is not the end. In some shape or form we go on. \n\nWhen Jesus was talking
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On two separate occasions, my heart and breathing stopped and I was essentially dead until resuscitated with CPR.\n\nI did not see any afterlife.
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I've been in more than one. My family members are "ghost senstives" especially me and my mother. I saw the ghost of a little boy of about 6 years old and a mans shadow in a hat and I was hit on the leg in this one house in Pensacola and at another place there was the scent of lavendar perfume and I had a mirror hanging on the left wall that fell twice for no reason and both times it landed on the video case of the exorcist so I moved the mirror set to the other side of the room along with the video rack and once again the mirror fell and cracked the case for the exorcist tape. I took the hint and threw the tape out and the mirror did not fall again after that. When I saw the landlord I asked him if someone had died in the place and he told me no but then a neighbor had heard my story and she told me that an elderly woman had a heart attack out on the walkway and they brought her into the house where she died.  I see images and shadows in the older homes that I've lived in. There was this place that was almost a hundred years old that had sat empty for three years before we moved in and from day one there was an evil prescence felt and my mother was more attune that I was. The focus was in the attic. I always felt a darkness there and my mother said she'd looked up the stairs one day and saw a man sitting in a wheelchair just watching her and she closed the door. Then she said that she saw a woman come through the closed attic door and go around the corner and disappear. That was it for me and I made a cross and placed it over the attic door and my nightmares stopped as well as my mothers. My sister saw a head in the closet and in the dresser drawer.  That house was the worst of all and I was glad when we moved out of it!!
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In spite of having nearly died on several occasions, I still can't say that I can honestly answer this question to you or to myself.\n\nIn a couple of cases, my transition from conscious to unconscious and near death was so swift that I had no time for "conscious" fear, although what I experienced between "slipping away" and being resuscitated was at the least interesting and at the worst extremely distressing.\n\nWhen I drowned, I had some of what we loosely call near death experiences.  I became calm, unaware of any bodily sensation, and the last thing I saw with my eyes was the water around me, which seemed peaceful.  Then I was somewhere else, witnessing scenes from my early childhood (I was eleven at the time). Then there was a scene where I was a child playing in our back yard, and my mother came to the back door, called my name and told me to come back, that it was not time for me to go. This scene was followed by a state of complete terror, and a confused kind of semiconsciouness -- best I can describe it.  That was the point that where my rescuers reached me.  What followed after that was best described as total pandemonium, and I was told later that at that point I was fighting the rescuers and almost pulled one down with me.  He told me that he was so exhausted that he feared for his life.  He had sprint-swimmed over 100 meters to reach me, and when I struggled it sapped his remaing energy.  Fortunately, there were two who came to my aid, and the second was able to help restrain me. They got me to shore, and I had coughed out a lot of water and was breathing again.  All three of us were unable to stand for several minutes -- our knees were like rubber.  The one who I nearly took down with me, he is my brother.  We never spoke of this to our parents or anyone, and for years never spoke of it ourselves.  \n\nMore recently, I was hospitalized for a severe pulmonary illness.  I stopped breathing twice in the ER.  Both events were horrible experiences.   I convulsed and felt like every fiber of my being was being ripped apart.  During one of the events, I felt that I was literally torn from my body and pulled upwards by an invisible force.  All the while I was fighting (in my mind) to exert all my will to force myself not to die, to start breathing again.  I had no other thoughts except one -- this is really going to suck if I die like this, right now.\n\nI'm still here, and I hope I stick around awhile.  I am more aware of my mortality than I'd reckon any average person may be, but I still cannot honestly say if I "fear" death or not.  All I can say is I now accept its inevitability, and in that sense, I no longer dread it.  So, maybe I don't fear it. \n\nWhat I do fear is leaving life before I feel ready.  I'm still relatively young, and feel I have things to be done ere I go.
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People who have had near death experiences no that consciousness continues after we are clinically dead. Many people have reported floating above their dead body on the operating table and being able to give clear details of what was going on around them, like what the doctors where doing and saying.\n\nWe lived as conscious beings before we obtained physical bodies here on earth and we will continue to live as conscious beings after our physical body dies.
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I have not but have recently been reading up on them...  go to www.near-death.com or http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Ai.Ajffve1XddA4PNA7okiQjzKIX?qid=1006030115045 and read the best answer, I found it to be a very good summary of what I have studied so far.
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I talk to him in my mind. I tell him thank you for the life I have when things are hard and ask for guidance when I'm not sure of something. \nI feel I'm very smart because of this and I'm a very easy going person also, people that know me call me a Saint.\n\nThe near death experiences are fascinating, I've never experienced it myself though. \n\nAn aunt of mine was dying when I was young and for a few minutes before she died she was asking about the man dressed in white at the foot of her bed, no one else could see him. \n\nShe died in peace because of it.
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As a nurse I have had a few encounters of the spirit world.  One time in ICU a pt saw a Angel sitting in the corner over my shoulder, I was talking to her and a chill ran down my spine and I shivered, that's when she told me that there was an angel in her room, it was there to comfort her and let her know her time was coming soon and to make things right with her family.  She called them all and after her last kid came in she died.  There was no problem medically that would indicate that death was eminent.  Another time I walked past a room with a patient who was unable to control the lights in his room but a light shone out from under the door but not in the window of the door. And more personally, My mother had an angel wake her up and tell her to change some things in her life or she was going to die.  I truly believe that we humans are not the only ones who walk the earth.
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I have experienced ghosts.  In one home I was in w/ my oldest daughter, we had been experiencing things.  She stayed home one day and we went into the basement.  The dead center of it.  There were no boxes around us and no one else in the house w/ us.  We said the Lord's Prayer and held hands.  Then we said out loud "ok we know you are here.  Show us!"  The next thing we knew, a box was kicked on the other side of the room.  Showed a footprint and all.  Quite freaky.
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I was electrocuted at work a while back.  I was passed out when they pulled me down from the wires.  But I never lost my train of thought, I feel that I experienced the whole thing in real time.\n\nWhen the current grabbed me I felt the life quickly drain from my body, it occoured to me that this is how I am to die, and then I was moving at high speed down a river of florescent light, inside a canyon with tall dark walls.  My body kept feeling like when you go over the falls on a roller coaster.  After a time the walls of the canyons started to have faces, and the faces turned into my fellow workers staring down at me in horror, thinking I was dead.   But I was pretty much OK except for some deep burns.\n\nCould have been just the dieing process.  But I feel that it was my choice to live or die during that time.  \n\nI would say my time since then is pure bonus time.  But really our entire lives are bonus time.   I don't understand anything more about death, but I did learn to appreciate each moment of life, each life giving breath.
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A recent experience:  April 8, 2006, my nieces' birthday at a restaurant in New Jersey.  While eating a family dinner at the restaurant where my niece works, I felt a bump on my leg from under the table.  Thinking that it was one of her children, I asked him to stop.  I spoke loud enough for the whole table to hear and received many looks and retorts that he was sitting at the other end of the table.  I felt it again on my left leg and then on my right.  There was no one nor anything visible under the table, I asked my niece if the place was haunted, she said "Yes!"  I found out later that many people have had similar experiences.  I was thinking of asking "Ghost Hunters" to check it out, but I don't think the owner would go for it.\n\nIf you want to hear a lot more, and they are very weird, e-mail me.  I've been thru various and sundry spiritual quests.  They've taken me to the depths of "hell" and, gratefully, to a very deep and profond belief in God.