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[Cathy]

I believe this - I have 2 friends that have experienced "the light" and both explained it in similar terms. One experienced it as a child - one as an 45 year old. I find the whole thing fascinating.

[Moonman62]

They are probably no more than lucid dreams.

[never4get]

"I really do believe that we're here to learn about compassion and love, and anytime we're not doing that, we're not doing our job,"

Seems so easy but such a difficult thing to do...I believe the better you can aspire to these true virtues, the better person you are. Unfortunately, it is the flaw of the human character to stray from such ideals. We are fortunate we have a forgiving God.

[Jack Hammer]

I had a near-death experience late Tuesday night watching the returns come in. Wasn't that great.

[JockoManning]

I read a book about such. Good book:

My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life

by Howard Storm

"Paris, the City of Light..."

[rusureitflies?]

This happened to my sister. She was drowning in a river. Her husband "saved" her. She described a similar experience. Did not want to "come back." Yes, there is more to life than this. My thoughts, "Behave yourself and God, our true father, will teach you His love for others." What is this experience for those who worship a god of hate?

[buck61]

Before reading comments on your post I know what I am going to find. Just a trick of the mind, just the oxygen leaving the brain causes such events.

I bet you will get some rather disturbing remarks from your post.
People have strayed so for away from God they hold no belief in life after death.

While I have never experienced this near death event in my life I do carry a peace as you describe. It is a peace I have everyday because I love the Lord Jesus Christ and only he gives such peace.

[azhenfud]

Two weeks before my grandmother died at 95, she had been in a coma induced by CHF. She awakened on Sunday a week before her departure that Monday and said she saw my grandfather who died in 1959 standing on the other side of a clear river with their daughter who'd died at two days old. She also said she saw "the Lord my God", that there were dirty pots between her and him, and he said she couldn't cross that river until she had them cleaned. There was some friction between some of her children, my uncles, at that time and after she talked with them and they'd made their peace, she said she was ready to go home. I don't know their in-depth discussion, but the uncles fixed their differences.

Some state those experiences are most likely from the degenerating minds of the dying brain, but my grandmother could recite her medications, their formula's, and dosages both before and after her "comatose" period. Knowing brain cells NEVER rejuvenate, I choose to believe what she saw is real.

A first cousin who laughed and made fun of Grandma's experience died within six months of Grandma's death - of CHF.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Ketamine Model of the Near Death Experience

[BigCinBigD]

Ping for later.

[little jeremiah]

Later read/pingout.

[mingwah]

My daughter is a trauma nurse and has seen many things. Once, after someone had passed away, my daughter was standing in the hall charting and saw the woman standing outside her room. Obviously it was the woman's spirit as the woman had had spina bifida and had never 'stood up'. I asked my daughter if she told anyone what she had seen and she replied, "No, they would think I was crazy."