Posted on 04/04/2023 5:53:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
The undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler ever returns.
I was dead twice for about a half hour and life did not pass before me, but I did feel the presence of Jesus like never before.
"Everything probably just goes black."
Quite frankly, I do not want to revisit about 50% of my life in the last moments before I die!
NDE/OOBE Ping
30 minutes on the other side of life is a long time. The doctors must have fought steadily to revive you.
Not all physicians would chose to do that.
I dsied 2x under general anesthesia — I can tolerate “Twilight” Anesthesia (Propofol) — and was dead in the OR for about 5-6mins, and then again in my private room, after post-op ICU. I stopped breathing both times, but don’t remember anything. They revived me quickly.
I’m dying to find the answer to this.
“Why fear Death. It is the greatest adventure in life.” - Peter Pan
I “died” twice too. One of them I had the classic “NDE” but went to hell, not heaven (but i know it didn’t actually happen as much of the experience was unbiblical, though it certainly felt real- if hell is anywhere near as bad as what i felt, (and the fact is that its likely much worse) then i want nothing to do with it!). When I came too, docs were hovering over me and I was iced down (had a high fever which sent me into convulsions). I remember speaking with the docs telling them what just happened, and to make sure they didnt end up there, and they just shrugged it off. That incident has been embedded in my mind all these years
Second time I didn’t experience anything, and just remeber clutching the bathroom sink at a conveinence store when the room started spinning bad, and thinking “oh man, this ain’t good”, and when I came to was wedged between toilet and wall, and blood was everywhere, even on the ceiling. Turns out i had bleeding ulcer which I made worse by weeks of aspirin. They had to do transfusion i had lost so much blood. I felt bad for The woman who had to clean the bathroom. She saif not to worry about it, but man was it gross.
I think it was the Gospel of Barnabas that stated Jesus went to Hell when he died, before his ascent to Heaven.
They worked on me for awhile. Not sure just how long, but it was long enough that while they were working on me, a doc went out and told my parents to prepare for the lossibi,ity I might not make it. Th3y had to get buckets of ice and cold water, and secure me so that I wouldn’t swallow my tongue and such. I came too and was confused about how they all got in the room and wondered what all The fuss was lol. The poor staff got a sermon they likely didn’t want to hear too. One doc even confronted my parents and asked “what are you teaching that boy?”
I recently read a FB post of the daughter of a close friend. I didn’t realize she had been in a snow accident a year ago. Apparently she was life-flighted to the nearest hospital, and she coded on the way there. She said she could hear the EMT’s saying that they were losing her, and she tried to tell them that they weren’t losing her, that she was fighting and wasn’t ready to go. She was worried about her husband and kids, thinking that they might have been told awful news.
Once she got to the hospital, she was stable but in critical condition. They didn’t know if she would live or die. Then she was told later that as her husband entered the room (hours later) that all of her vitals improved. I don’t know how long it was before she became conscious again to the outside world, but in her mind, she was still there, and never left it, even though she coded while on the life flight. She has completely recovered from her injuries a full year later.
Hell, in the original usage of the Greek word, simply means the common grave of humanity............
Sometimes it’s a good thing to be a feisty spirit who demands to be heard.
I could live the rest of my life without knowing.
Life flashes before your eyes before death but it usually takes years to finish. It is called “life”.
I have a friend who while serving in the Air Force had to maintain vats of liquid oxygen near the runway, for some reason. One slow day, while he and his friends were bored, a frog hopped past them. He picked the frog up and dropped it into the liquid oxygen to see what would happen, but after a while they felt bad about what they had done and fished the frog out. As the sun warmed the frog on the tarmac it began to move about until finally it hopped away just as it had come. I often wonder how one should describe the state of the frog’s being while in the liquid oxygen. Was it dead; was it not dead but it’s life somehow suspended; was it still alive? It tempting to say that the frog wasn’t dead, but only had its life suspended, but that definition depends on the intent of my friend — will he remove the frog from the oxygen or not? In this case, one cannot know or make any absolute statement about whether the frog is dead or alive in the LOX without knowing the state of mind of the individual who may, or may not, revive him,.
You could, but you might not.
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