The bright light

[ctg492]

Along the similar line of the reincarnation post. I fully believe the stories of those that came close to death's door or medically did die for a moment and saw the Light or Felt like they were above all that was happening.
My story is a car accident when I was 22. I remember the event of the accident, the death that occurred and all those terrible things. No pain is how I remember feeling in the Ambulance at all. I remember thinking peacefully I am dyeing, I do not want to bother the Medics working, I will remain quiet. It was peaceful. As strange as it sounds I remember being above the entire event watching them work on me and the talking. I felt as though I was looking outside at the road we were driving on towards the hospital, I had spend many trips on that road.
I remember the hospital ER, watching the life saving going on and then POOF I remember being told You are Going to live.
DO I think this all happened , Yes. DO I think perhaps I was in shock and was dreaming, perhaps. But I have since that day believed any story I hear of those that say it happened to them.

[goldensmom]

Must be something to it. I thought it was bunk until my father was 'medically dead' for a brief period of time and reported his experience. This comes from a man who never reported dreaming and was a skeptic of such near death experiences. Sure made a him a believer. Sure makes me think it is possible.

[Mrs-M]

Thank you for sharing your stories, Ctg492 and Goldensmom. I'm a believer.

[Float On]

I haven't personally experienced it but we had some close friends die in a plane crash. The only one left living was the 3 year old little boy who reported that Jesus walked around the crash and took his mom, dad, and bigger sister, and the other couple that were in the small plane with them. He said Jesus told him that he would be o.k. He said his family all had big smiles and that their spirits stayed with him until help started arriving on the crash site. Those who arrived on site found him sitting on some of the rubble, looking up in the sky with a smile on his face.

[Mighty Frugal]

Fascinating stories! Love reading them. I am a believer. There are just too many people from all walks of life who have the same experience. I don't know anyone personally but my sister-a nurse-knew another nurse who had this happen. She died on the operating table-heart problems, and floated out of the room and saw what was going on in the hallway.

Some people say that your hearing is last to go so that's why you hear thins but how could she see things that happened out of her sight?

[Mighty Frugal]

I haven't personally experienced it but we had some close friends die in a plane crash. The only one left living was the 3 year old little boy who reported that Jesus walked around the crash and took his mom, dad, and bigger sister, and the other couple that were in the small plane with them. He said Jesus told him that he would be o.k. He said his family all had big smiles and that their spirits stayed with him until help started arriving on the crash site. Those who arrived on site found him sitting on some of the rubble, looking up in the sky with a smile on his face.


ok..shivers up and down my arm..wow!! How old is that boy now? Who does he live with. How remarkable and bittersweet

[JaneV2.0]

I enjoy watching the Bio channel's I Survived: Beyond and Back, a weekly show profiling three cases of near-death experiences per episode.

[herbgeek]

I was 3, and having an operation to remove a cyst under my tongue. I remember floating above the operating table near the ceiling, and not really understanding much of what was going on, but I remember there being a number of people around the gurney. I remember seeing a draped figure on the gurney.

[Heidi]

During my years as a Hospice nurse, many of my patients reported seeing deceased family members standing by their bedsides during the last week or so of their lives. The mother of one of my AIDS patients reported that her son asked her one day, "Grandma died, didn't she?" The mother answered, "Yes, she passed away a year ago." He then said after a while of silence, " She is standing right here." He pointed to the side of his bed, described in great detail what she was wearing.
Dr. Kubler-Ross did extensive research in near death experiences, wanted to publish a book on the subject, but arsenists burned down her house with all the research material of 20,000 near death cases in it.
I attended a Hospice conference, where a nurse recalled an incident with one of her patients. He was a Danish immigrant to the States, worked the mines for many years when an explosion happened in the mine and all his co-miners perished in the accident. He was the sole survivor. All his life he wondered why he was spared. One day towards the end of his life the nurse made a home visit. He was unusually quiet. She finally asked him what was going on. He asked her to leave, explaining that all the miners (about thirty) were here today and they were going to tell him why he was spared.
The husband of a good friend of mine lay dying in his hospital bed, she was sitting at his bedside. Suddenly he turned to the window and said, "Do you see that light?" She looked outside; it was a dreary, rainy day, no light anywhere. She told him that she was not able to see any light. Again he persisted, "It is so bright." He died shortly after that.
Kubler-Ross believed that the dying, especially children, can teach us so much about life after death. The curtain that separates us from the deceased seems to lift for many people during their final days, and they have to ability to look beyond. That has been my experience in my work with the terminally ill also.

[Float On]

Mighty Frugal, he is now 20. Thankfully when our friends bought the plane they updated their wills "just in case" and the process was pretty easy. He has been raised by her sister's family with a lot of extended family in the same town. They made sure to bring him back several times over the years to visit friends in this area.

[JaneV2.0]

Both of my parents had glimpses of the Beyond before they died. My father remarked to my partner "You know, Mother and Dad are upstairs." just days before he died unexpectedly. My mother mentioned several of her relatives who had gone before, and toward the end included her sister, who she couldn't have known was dead. We were pretty shaken when we found out ourselves. In fact, she and her closest sisters--a 15-year age range--all died within a five-week span. Neither of my parents were given to flights of fancy, especially my father. Because of these experiences, I'm inclined to believe in death as a transition, rather than an end.

[pony mom]

I believe. When my grandmother was near the end, she talked to her dead mother, in Hungarian, which she hadn't spoken in many years. A client's grandmother kept laughing when she was dying and said her dead husband was there, telling her funny things. Right before she died, she reached out her hand in front of her to touch him.

They can give all sorts of medical reasons why people see 'a light', but I believe it happens as our physical body dies and the soul leaves. Many stories include seeing departed friends/relatives/pets on their journey.

When I had my Reiki attunement (a strange secret method of being given the ability to do this type of energy work), we were put in a meditative state. During this time, I had this vision of being on a hilltop, and so many people were coming up the hill to be part of a ceremony for me. Most of them were dead relatives, some of which I hadn't thought of in years. There was such an outpouring of love that I was bawling my eyes out when we were woken up. I imagine that it was similar to dying and seeing loved ones. To this day I get teary and goosebumps just thinking about it.

I always wonder if it would take a near death experience to make me change my life and do something with it.

[Wildflower]

I totally believe. I know 3 people who were medically dead that came back and recounted incredible experiences. They firmly believe everything they saw and felt was totally real. And I believe them. One told me not to ever be afraid of dying - that it was the most beautiful and peaceful experience one will ever have...

In the last week of my Mother's life she told me everyday that her sister was right there by her bedside waiting for her to come to heaven with her.... I was so happy for her.

[Mighty Frugal]

I totally believe. I know 3 people who were medically dead that came back and recounted incredible experiences. They firmly believe everything they saw and felt was totally real. And I believe them. One told me not to ever be afraid of dying - that it was the most beautiful and peaceful experience one will ever have...

In the last week of my Mother's life she told me everyday that her sister was right there by her bedside waiting for her to come to heaven with her.... I was so happy for her.

Wildflower, would you mind sharing some of the experiences your friends had in their NDE? I'd love to read them if you are willing!

[catherine]

I remember reading a Reader's Digest condensed book when I was really young--probably about 10. I was really inspired by the subject: A 9 year old Canadian girl, Janice Babson, who was diagnosed with leukemia and carried on very heroically until she died a year or two later. At her deathbed, her parents said that right before she died she was lay weak, frail and barely conscious, and then suddenly she bolted straight up in bed, her eyes wide open and a big smile on her face, and she shouted, "Mommy! Oh, mommy! Is this what heaven's like?" And then she hugged her mother and died.

[JaneV2.0]

I don't buy the theory that it's all about oxygen deprivation or drugs or whatever, either. My mother was hooked to an oxygen saturation monitor and weeks from death when she saw her first glimpses of another reality, and my father was completely unmedicated and breathing normally. Neither was actively dying.

[Gregg]

I'm a believer and an agnostic skeptic of almost everything else at the same time. As Einstein said, I'm not smart enough to prove there is no God, but the pure religious explanation doesn't go that far with me. I guess it requires more faith than I have. At the same time the law of conservation of energy provides a sufficient (for me), if not particularly romantic explanation. I believe the soul or life force or whatever name you wish to call the energy that drives us is like any other form of energy. It is not created or destroyed, it only changes forms. When our physical bodies shut down that life energy has to go somewhere. With all the people over all the centuries and across all the cultures that have reported similar experiences I think there is tremendous evidence that our human death is not the end. I can very comfortably wait for that answer to be revealed without giving it much more thought, but hold onto a little secret wish because there are some people I would dearly love to have a few more minutes with.

[Maxamillion]

I'm definitely a believer, had something like it happen to me. I kind of look forward to when my time comes. The best things on earth don't even compare.