wag952

Near Death Experiences

Posted on 07/07/09, 03:00 am

Its been a little "dead" around here, I thought I would add a topic. Has anyone had, or know someone that has had a Near Death Experience? Would you please describe it and any thoughts you have on this subject? Thank You in advance.

• Reply #1 07/07/09  2:25pm
  
  OldManBear
  I'm reminded of my first heart attack. I was in the ER - in a lot of pain - and Marie was there. I heard her call my name as everything went black.
  
  Next I was dancing with her, she in her wedding dress and me in that rented Oscar de la Renta tux. The ballroom was empty, except for us, but we didn't care. There was nothing but the music, my beloved, and me. It wasn't a memory because there were too many differences.
  
  I woke in ICU and there was Marie. She had been crying. I raised the bed, took off my oxygen mask and waved her close for a kiss. Then I got out of bed (to her horror) and we slow danced next to the bed. There was nothing but my bad singing, my beloved, some tubes and wires, and me.
  
  LOL! Then a nurse came in and put a stop to it.
• Reply #2 07/08/09  3:04am
  
  wag952
  Wow Thats so very nice. I wish I could say I had an experience but I remember nothing about dying. They tell me my heart stopped twice on the way to the hospital and they had to use the jumper cables on me. I had a head on collision and hit the steering column so hard I broke most of my ribs. my heart and lungs swelled inside my chest cavity and caused the arrest. But it was a total void for me... maybe I wasnt out long enough, or maybe I am just one of the 75 to 80 percent that dont have an NDE. OMB you have something to look forward to. Thank You
• Reply #3 07/08/09  7:21pm
  
  jean747
  I don't have an experience myself, but the day my mother died, she kept talking to people who had gone on before. She had lung cancer and had decided that she wanted to die at home. My sisters and I were there and she had been pretty much delerious for the last couple of days. I would go in to check on her and she would be talking to someone. She would call out to people who had died some time before. I believe they had come for her because that evening she died in her sleep. I was there, she took one long last breath and then drifted away. I have always felt better at the thought that her friends and realatives had come to take her where she needed to be.
• Reply #4 07/08/09  8:04pm
  
  OldManBear
  There is lots of anecdotal evidence that Those Who Have Gone On come back to soothe and guide the dying.
• Reply #5 07/10/09  5:42am
  
  milly17
  Yep jean i had the same experience when my nan was dying. I was just a child but i remember her seeing my dear grandfather who had passed on some years before and she told him she was coming to him. Apparently he was dressed all in white and she said his surroundings were beautiful and unlike anything she had ever seen. Maybe he really was waiting or maybe it was just her perception of heaven, but i hope it was the former as i would like to think of them reunited 'up there'. This is a great site.x
• Reply #6 07/10/09  12:30pm
  
  OldManBear
  Several times after witnessing a death, I have heard a sound that my mind renders as laughter. I believe what I heard was joy as one newcomer arrived in the hereafter and was welcomed by loved ones.
• Reply #7 07/10/09  1:23pm
  
  jean747
  OMB, that is a comforting thought.
• Reply #8 07/11/09  12:19pm
  
  wag952
  I started researching the NDE and found there is literally hundreds of books, tens of thousands accounts that span recorded history. This may be where the concept of life after death started, even before the well known religions excepted it. I am particularly fascinated by the childrens accounts (and there are many). Children tend to be more honest and have not (depending on age) fully adopted a particular religion, this makes their perspective a bit more objective.
• Reply #9 08/22/09  8:08pm
  
  ChuntaSha
  I am new here but I felt like it was time to share my story.
  
  wanted to share a story of my Near Death Experience. I try to be as vivid as I can so this will be a long entry. On Nov 3, 2006 I started a side job repairing a roof on a two story building. It was a big job for one person but we needed the money bad for Christmas. With four children it really cost. I was pushing hard to get completed by Thanksgiving so my wife could talk to Santa. I began to get very sick and hurting in my chest. I had pneumonia before and I knew that this was what was getting me down again but I would not stop. I had also cut the back of my head very bad climbing down the catwalk.
  I finished up the job but I had to take to the bed and even missed out on Thanksgiving. The place on the back of my head had became infected and I had planned to go to the hospital the day after Thanksgiving but by then I was so sick and my fever was so high I was out of my head. I was taking an antibiotic that I had on file at the drug store and hoped this would take care of my illness. My wife and mother finally had enough and called the ambulance. When they arrived my fever now was at 105 and I could hardly breath. They took me straight to the ICU and by this time I was out. From here on I have to write what has been told to me by the doctors, nurses and family members.
  The doctors started antibiotics, iv's and many test. As the days went by they found out I had double pneumonia, septic (blood poisoning) and staff infection. None of the antibiotics was helping and I continued to become worse. I was put on a ventilator and feeding tube. A few days more and they found that this infection had gotten down into my lungs and formed many puss pockets. The place on the back of my head was so bad it would have to be cut out (4"x2") because of the infection. I was so weak and in such bad shape they were afraid to operate but if they didn't I would surly die.
  The lung specialist ended up doing the surgery but after the procedure I lapped into a coma. At this time they were still pumping every type antibiotic they had with no results. My head now had to be operated on and after this was done my kidney's locked down. I was given so much IV that my body swelled as if I weighted 300 pounds try to get my kidney's going again. I continued to get worse and was barely alive. A week before Christmas the doctors called my family in and told them that I might not make it through the night. There was a new antibiotic they were going to try but if it did not work I would not live till Christmas.
  That night I became very bad and I went into cardiac arrest. I was dead now as the doctors and nurses worked to get me going again. I did not see a great light but when I looked up there before me was a grand wall with a large doorway. To one side of the door stood my grandma, grandpa, great grandma, uncle Grady and more and more of my family that had already passed before me. They looked nothing like they did here on earth but it was if they were glowing within. They all looked so beautiful and as if they were the happiest they had been in years.
  Now, let me just go and say this, everything that I saw was amazing but the feeling that filled my body was something that words can not explain. This feeling I still have off and on now but it was so much love and...well I just can not describe it. I headed to the doorway and the whole time my loved ones were trying to stop me but I still kept on course. Before I got to the doorway and started to enter my best friend James Spearman stepped out in front of the door. He too had a new body and glowed like the sun.
  I remember thinking to myself, "What is James doing here? He is not dead because I just seen him a few days ago (What I thought were days) No matter how hard I tried he would not let me by. Finally James stepped to the side and allowed me to look into this door. It looked like some of the beautiful places that you see here on earth but only ten times better. I looked and there stood a beautiful white horse. I have never in my life seen anything such as this. Then it was all gone. I seen a few more things but I feel that these were the things God laid on my heart.
  On Jesus birthday I began to get better and continued that way. I was allowed to leave the hospital the end of Jan 2007. I had to learn to walk again and my left leg has no feeling any more. My lungs are shot and I have a hole in the back of my head but praise God I am alive. After I got home I was still on a feeding tube and many nurses and theropist came everyday almost. One day I thought of what I had seen and I asked my wife where my best friend James was. She began to cry and said, "Randy, James died about the second week of Dec. At that very moment I knew that what I had seen was real.
  I really did not hold a lot to NDE until then but now I know. I have much more that I want to share at a later date especially what we go through after a NDE and other things we may have experienced. There was a prayer request one day about a little 9 year old girl that had been battling cancer for a long time. It had took it's toll on her little body and she was not expected to live. Many people prayed and prayed hard but this woman that sent the message a few days later sent another message.
  This little one had gone to be with the Lord. This woman was there and this little girls mother by her bedside. The little girl told her mother, "I have to go mama." Her mother broke down saying, "No, No baby."
  The little girl said, "Mama, I have to go now. Can you see them? Can you see the beautiful angels on the white horses?" And this little girl died. As I set here at my desk the tears began to flow and I thought back at what God had allowed me to see. The great white horse. I wondered if this could have been one of the white horses I had seen to take this little one to be with the Lord. I like to think so.
  
  
• Reply #10 08/24/09  10:38am
  
  wag952
  Absolutely amazing! Thank you for telling your story, it was a very brave thing to do. I think most every one here believes in the here after. I have read many books on NDE's and your experience mirrors so many others accounts... then your friend James Spearman... what more do you need to believe? Every one experiencing an NDE comes back changed in many ways. Some time when your ready, please tell us how it changed you and your life. Thank You again.

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