When I was a teenager(barely)in 1954, my uncle told me and my brother a story he said he had never told anyone, ever. He was a Captain of Marines in the Pacific an came down with a disease, he doesn't know what it was, something unspecified and undiagnosed by the docs at the time.
He does know he was dying, he was taken into what the other men called the dying room, because no one came out of the room. He said that he floated through a tunnel toward the light and when he got there he saw all of his dead relatives and a person he didn't know, who told him that he would have to return because it wasn't his time yet, that he had work to do.
He woke up and was returned to the regular ward, where he became extremely ill once more and once more he was returned to the "dying room". He died again, and again went through the light and talked to his dead relatives(including his mother and father)and was once again told he had to go back.
He woke again and was returned to the regular sick ward where he recovered but was given a medical discharge from the Marines. He retained his title of Captain and used it with pride on all of his correspondence until his death at 83 years of age.
I believed him when he told it and I still do. There is life after death and there is a creator, IMO.
Great story.
There is such a thing as an “expectant” area. Those who are “expected” to die are taken there.
It’s standard military practice. In fact, it’s a necessary part of the triage process, iirc.
Thank you so very much, calex59, for sharing your Uncle's testimony about his NDEs. They seem to have been closely similar in form to the reports of so many others who have undergone the experience. I don't see a reason not to believe what your Uncle told you was true.
Of course, those picky folks out there who disdain "witness testimony" as any kind of reliable evidence will not be satisfied. Their fundamental presupposition seems to be that witness testimony is thoroughly unreliable. For one thing, the similarity of the NDE reports might actually indicate the existence of a conspiracy.... There's no pleasing these folks.
Thank you again, calex59, for putting your Uncle's experiences "on the record" here!