Does anyone have a near death experience story that they would like to share?

I am intrigued by near death experience stories and what they imply about life after death. Asked by lauriesueSD 53 months ago Similar questions: death experience story share Society.

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I drowned as a kid. I had a near-death experience as a kid where I fell off of a boat in freezing waters. I was standing on a folding chair looking over the edge of the boat to see the waves, when somehow it folded or something and I was thrown overboard.

I bounced off of the side of the boat and into the water. I don't know if I got knocked out at that point or if I was just disoriented, but when I looked around, I couldn't find the boat. I was trying to tread water until the boat came back, but I remember going under a few times.It was more frustrating than scary, because I thought I could do it and was annoyed that I was having a hard time just treading water (my clothes were pulling me under).

The next thing I knew, my dad and someone else were pulling me up the side of the boat. Evidently, when the boat had turned around, some other guy jumped in to rescue me, but he was wearing boots so he started to drown too. Then my dad jumped in and saved him and then found me floating a few inches under the water with my eyes open.

He grabbed me and by the time I got lifted up the boat, I woke up and felt fine. What a hero, huh? My mom was freaking out and I remember the doctor looking at me and making sure I was okay.

Being a kid, I was mostly thinking about things like the fact that my shoes were wet. Looking back, the thing that really struck me was that it seemed like no time had passed at all while I was passed out. Very strange experience.

Not personally but have been told some good ones... Got interested with Elilsabeth Kubler-Ross and after Raymond Moody wrote "Life after Life", I read virtually every ’toward the light’ book available. That genre has pretty much died away now but there is still a dedicated body of folks left that are interested. See the Wikipedia article for more details.

There are a lot of stories at a place like the Near Death Association. Www.nderf. Org/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience I could go on but after years of this, I found the best answers came from sitting quietly at a keyboard and asking any question I wished... there was always an immediate and very articulate answer.Regards.

Oh yes, I was told a great first-hand story while at NASA and another Viet-Nam experience by a programmer at a University --and my mother had a wonderful experience she related as well. I very recently waited with a friend in a hospice and just before he died, he suddently stopped struggling, smiled at the ceiling and guestured for whomever he saw to come to him. I have no doubts and only a fear of dying, not of death... Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience .

1 VoiceOfReason, regarding your answer "I drowned as a kid. ":thanks much for sharing. What I was asking for was stories about dying and going to the next world.

When I say Near Death Experience, I mean when a person is clinically dead and they see the tunnel of light, and feel the totally awesome unbelievable total love and acceptance. Seeing people who have died before, etc.

VoiceOfReason, regarding your answer "I drowned as a kid. ":thanks much for sharing. What I was asking for was stories about dying and going to the next world.

When I say Near Death Experience, I mean when a person is clinically dead and they see the tunnel of light, and feel the totally awesome unbelievable total love and acceptance. Seeing people who have died before, etc.

2 Good thing I didn't answer the question because I have a great story but no tunnel. Luckilly, God saved me before I got that far.

Good thing I didn't answer the question because I have a great story but no tunnel. Luckilly, God saved me before I got that far.

3 lauriesueSD, since no one else has volunteered a story, I'll relate one I was told by a computer programmer at the University. He said he was in Viet Nam and in a patrol that was going down a ditch servicing a rice paddie. He was the last man in the patrol and was watching rearward when the Viet Cong opened up on the head of the column with a hidden machine gun.

He was hit and fell but the rest of the patrol were killed. The Cong fled. He said he was in pain and fearful and then, he was flying out over the battlefield.

All around, he said, were soldiers that had been killed, who were watching the activities on the ground with interest. He flew on a distance, gaining altitude, until he was suddenly stopped, and then drawn back to his body. He opened his eyes to see a medic frantically working on him...he was taken to the field hospital and eventually recovered.

He told me this story in the eighties and said that he had not feared death since this incident happened to him. He also said he had not often shared that experience. I had a not dissimilar story related to me by a technician at NASA.

Hope this helps....

LauriesueSD, since no one else has volunteered a story, I'll relate one I was told by a computer programmer at the University. He said he was in Viet Nam and in a patrol that was going down a ditch servicing a rice paddie. He was the last man in the patrol and was watching rearward when the Viet Cong opened up on the head of the column with a hidden machine gun.

He was hit and fell but the rest of the patrol were killed. The Cong fled. He said he was in pain and fearful and then, he was flying out over the battlefield.

All around, he said, were soldiers that had been killed, who were watching the activities on the ground with interest. He flew on a distance, gaining altitude, until he was suddenly stopped, and then drawn back to his body. He opened his eyes to see a medic frantically working on him...he was taken to the field hospital and eventually recovered.

He told me this story in the eighties and said that he had not feared death since this incident happened to him. He also said he had not often shared that experience. I had a not dissimilar story related to me by a technician at NASA.

Hope this helps....

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.