Has anyone had a NDE...?
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Has anyone had a NDE...?
| Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:49am |
I was just curious as to whether or not anyone here has had a NDE (Near Death Experience). If not yourself, perhaps someone close to you that you know?
I'm not exactly sure what to make of them but they are facinating to read about and they show someone like myself, whom I would say I'm agnostic, that perhaps they give some types of clues about the afterlife.
Thanks in advance
DAVID

A close friend is diabetic and has had a very difficult time controlling it.
This isn't a NEAR Death Experience, but rather a Death Experience. My uncle's wife passed away last summer after battling with cancer for several years. She knew the time had come, and she chose to be at home when it happened. My uncle sat by her bedside the entire time. Just before the end, she looked across the room and asked my uncle, quite lucidly, "who are those people over there?" He told her that it was just the two of them, that no one else was in the room. She said, "yes, over there, there are dozens of them". He asked who they were, but she said their faces were moving too fast. Then, she said, "I'm ready to go home now", and she passed away.
My uncle was never one to believe in paranormal phenomenon, life after death, or anything like that, but he shared the story - leading me to believe he felt the experience was genuine. My mother was also moved by the story, and she doesn't believe in that stuff either.
I also had a teacher in high school who experienced something like an NDE when he underwent surgery for colon cancer. It was a long time ago - I was 16 when he told us the story - and unfortunately I don't remember most of the details. He didn't need to be revived or anything like that, it was more like an out-of-body experience during his surgery. I think he said he could see what the doctors were doing, and even that he was connected to his body by the band of light (its name escapes me, I've heard of it many times). One day, while he was recovering, he suddenly had an overwhelming spiritual experience - something, a knowledge that death was nothing to be afraid of, that it was only a transition, just washed over him. He felt safe and comfortable, terrified and overjoyed all at once. It was so overwhelming that he was reduced to tears (the emotion almost took him again while he told the story). He said he knew that, one day, the cancer would come back and take him, but not now, not yet - he'd been given another shot. Later, the doctors told him that the cancer was in remission.
I wish I could remember all the details - he took almost an hour to tell us the story - but I do remember WHY he decided to tell a class full of 16-year olds a story as intense as this. He felt it was a message meant to be shared - he said we all spend our lives forgetting to enjoy what is right in front of us, and instead being afraid of the things we can not see. We were put here to live, yet we contradict life at every turn. In being afraid of death, we forget to live, and there is simply no need for it.
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