Seeing grieving family persuades dying man to live

"While in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital the doctors inserted a feeding tube into my nose while I was intubated. The nutrients from the feeding tube filled my belly causing my stomach to spasm and all the nutrient went into my lungs because I was intubated. I felt my lungs fill and my breath shorten. The call-button was just out of reach when I realized I had no control and there was nothing I could do. I thought of my family and the life I wouldn't lead. My eyes swelled in tears as I took my last breaths. Then everything went black.

"It seemed instantly that I was somewhere else. It was as though I stepped through a doorway in the back of my mind and into another dimension. I first noticed the floor or rather the absence of it. There was a thick mist or fog that covered the ground up to my knees. The very next thing that I noticed was the sound of music. It soothed me. I didn't know the song but it seemed familiar. It was symphonically orchestral and with brass, strings and woodwinds, but the sound was still subtle. The sound seemed to be coming from my right. So, I looked in that direction.

"I saw a deep void of darkness, like an astronaut who looked into the stars from orbit. Then I looked in front of me and saw my deceased grandmother. She was standing just in front of the 'White Light.' The light radiated warmth, light, love and anything I needed to know. I also noticed other figures off to the left of me. They seemed peaceful in pairs holding each other and swaying with the music. My grandmother delivered the choice to me. I could stay with her or go back to my life. She told me that if I stayed, everything would be o.k. She said that if I went back to my body, it would be the most challenging experience I would ever endure. Then she showed me my grieving family. It was like I was transported to the moment when my loved ones were talking about me. I saw my other grandparent who was still alive. She was driving to the hospital to see me. My Papa was consoling my grandma saying, 'Don't cry, he's going to make it!' I also saw my best friends driving to see me at the hospital. They were saying how bad it was and how I didn't look like myself. I also saw my mother and aunt in the hospital watching over me. I saw their tears and the uncertainty in there expressions. So, I chose to live." 

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Happy during NDE yet grateful to be alive

Dr. Sartori writes that Marie-Claire’s NDE demonstrates quite a few of the after effects: "I became ill with meningitis and was sent to hospital, where I stayed for a month. I remember being in the most terrible pain, like my head was being crushed and not liking bright lights. I was put on a drip and then felt myself falling and I pinched my hand to see if I was dreaming – I was not! Suddenly I was in what felt like a dark tunnel, traveling at enormous speed and at the end was a brilliant golden light which didn’t hurt my eyes. When I reached the end I saw my family and patients (I used to be a nurse), all standing with beautiful smiles and open arms, enveloping me in such love. It was amazing! Even our family pets that had died years before were welcoming me. Some were patients who had had amputations before they died, but now they had limbs and were walking.

 

"A voice, which came into my head, asked me if I wanted to remain with them or return back to where I’d come from. I remember very clearly, I said, ‘Oh goodness I’d love to stay but first I must return to tidy my bedroom!’ I’m a children’s nanny and I’d left books on the floor before I collapsed. Suddenly I felt myself being pulled back very rapidly by what looked like a silver cord, a very fine one, and then I was screaming in pain because I was woken up by doctors and nurses. I told them – why didn’t you leave me alone? I was blissfully happy to be free from pain? Their response shocked me! They said, but you had died, we saved your life, and I felt terribly guilty having shouted at them, not appreciating what had happened to me.

 

"Of course, once I was on the road to recovery, I was grateful for my life being saved and I’ve never looked back. Since I died, I became a spiritualist and I’m not afraid to die; I know for certain, this life is one of many, and we do meet our loved ones eventually. Also, it’s made me a better person and I try to do at least five kind things a day for other people. I love helping my friends and family and I give most of my salary to others who need it much more than I do. Whoever spoke to me on the other side, spoke with such love, it made me cry just thinking about it once I recovered. I shall never forget the love and kindness when I came back; it’s something I’ve never experienced since. Hopefully when my time comes, I’ll meet the same people I saw before and more!

 

"Also, the colors were very different to those here on earth, I can’t tell you the colors because I’ve never seen them before, just that they were absolutely stunning. The flowers were really glorious too, mostly white and the green grass looked like green velvet, it’s hard to explain! Sometimes – just sometimes – I wish I could travel back because my precious twin sister passed away five years ago. How I miss her; we were so very close, and I loved her dearly. I hope this has not been too boring for you but it’s absolutely true and, as I’ve mentioned, I’m not scared of dying. I know it’s just pure love on the other side wherever it is in God’s universe!"

 

Sartori, Dr Penny. Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (pp. 32-33). Watkins Media. Kindle Edition. 2014

NDE leads woman to palliative care leadership

Pam Williams from Swansea reported to Dr. Sartori her NDE when she hemorrhaged after childbirth: "The doctor came in his car. Even though it was physically impossible I saw the doctor get out of his car and run up our path; he threw off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and examined me, he appeared to be trying to pull something out. He then banged me on the chest and inserted a needle into my heart and injected me with something. He breathed into my mouth. All the time this was happening I felt fine; warm, happy, full of joy, peaceful, gently floating towards brilliant light. Suddenly in the distance I heard my eldest daughter shout, ‘Mam’. I remember thinking, ‘Oh dear, Jacquie needs me,’ and I came back with a jolt.

 

"The doctor had already sent my husband to phone for the emergency maternity ambulance (no mobile phones in those days). The ambulance came with a specialist doctor in attendance. I was stabilized and bundled with my newborn daughter into the ambulance and with the sirens blaring was raced to hospital. When I went for my postnatal appointment six weeks later, I told the doctor what I had seen. He was amazed that I could describe the event in such detail but didn’t have any explanation. This near-death experience left me with a special legacy: I know for certain that death is not to be feared. I am not a religious person but I believe there is a warm peaceful beautiful place after death. I also felt I had somehow been given the choice as to whether I should continue my journey towards the bright light or return; I chose the latter.

 

"This experience was put to the back of my mind. I was an uneducated miner’s wife with four small children. I did odd jobs cleaning and being a dinner lady when at the age of 34 a number of seemingly accidental events led me back into education. Within the next six years I became a nursery nurse, a RNMS and a staff nurse RGN. Within four years of qualifying I became a sister on the coronary-care unit in Sheffield. Then everything seemed to fall into place: it was not serendipity or chance that had given me skills and knowledge. I humbly felt that this was the right place for me since my own near-death experience enabled me to give help and support to the dying and newly bereaved patients and families. 

 

"My own lack of fear of dying helped me explore aspects of death, firstly at degree, and then at masters level, by which time I was a lecturer in nursing and palliative care. I truly believe that had I not experienced near death, I would not have striven to explore death issues and would probably have remained content not to return to education. As a person I changed from the moment of my near-death experience; I felt an overwhelming sense of joy, and a need to help and support others. I believe strongly in the philosophy of everyday doing something or giving something to help others, often random strangers. I also strongly believe that religion is just a word and that each individual person is responsible for how they choose to live their lives."

 

Sartori, Dr Penny. Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (pp. 30-31). Watkins Media. Kindle Edition. 2014.

NDE survivor reports help by her guardian angel

"I too have had an NDE," a woman wrote to Dr. Sartori. "It happened nearly 30 years ago and the whole thing stands out as clearly in my memory as if it happened yesterday. I believe that it has nothing to do with hallucinations or medication. I had a pulmonary embolism in hospital after major surgery. I could neither move nor shout for the nurse, it was as if someone had stabbed me in the back and all the air had gone from my lungs. I distinctly remember a nurse looking at me then running to my bed with oxygen and mask, putting the mask on my face. Then I saw two doctors rush to my bed, one was sounding my chest with a stethoscope and the other was pressing hard on the veins in my legs (I found out later he was looking for a DVT). I still couldn’t breathe and the pain in my upper back was awful.

 

"Suddenly I felt completely calm and felt myself gliding to the corner of the room at ceiling height. I rushed through a tunnel in the corner of the room, and it was full of bright lights and vivid colors and at the front was my grandmother, smiling as she always did when alive. Behind my grandmother were other members of our family and friends, all smiling and welcoming me. Suddenly I had to go back to my family and two young sons. I hovered and looked down at my hospital bed. I could see myself lying there on a drip and oxygen, my eyes were closed but the two doctors, and now three nurses, were no longer rushing about. Two days later I woke up (my husband informed me of the time span) with tubes everywhere and acute pain in my lungs. I did not have the pain either while floating above my bed or in the tunnel.

 

"I began to recover and then about four days later I had another breathing attack. This time I was in intensive care, so a nurse came immediately with oxygen. She pulled the curtains around the bed and said she would return immediately with a doctor. During this time (seconds, apparently) a man all in white clothing came into the cubicle and sat on the end of my bed with his back to me. My breathing was bad, and he actually sat on my feet (I am a tall lady) and I remember clearly having trouble moving my feet from under him. Then he said to me, ‘Fight it, fight it’ over and over again. Then he disappeared in front of my eyes. When my breathing returned to normal, I asked the nurse who it was who had come into the cubicle before she came back with the doctor. She informed me that no one had been in with me. Today I believe it was my guardian angel.

 

"I would like to add that my experience changed my life. I have spent a lot of my life as a carer for family and friends and also in my employment with the blind. Before that NDE I was quite self-centered and an introvert. So, I can say the experience did me a lot of good. One of the first people I looked after was my mother, who passed away 18 months after my NDE. Twenty years later I nursed my father through terminal cancer so perhaps I was saved because I had work to do.

 

Sartori, Dr Penny. Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (pp. 33-34). Watkins Media. Kindle Edition. 2014

Survivor feels he was sent back for a purpose

Dr. Sartori reports the following experience. "I kept asking what had happened as I knew I had experienced something, but all the surgeon would say was that it had been pretty serious, and they had to wash my insides out with antibiotics as I was so ulcerated with the peritonitis infection. I just wanted to be left alone as I felt so ill. I was given over 20 morphine jabs to ease the pain during that week. During the first three days every time that I closed my eyes I could see a vivid green tunnel off to my left in the wall, and felt that all I had to do was to let go because of the constant pain. I stopped having the tunnel visions as my temperature dropped on the fourth day.

 

"When I finally managed to get out of bed after the fourth day, I noticed my chest looked very red and couldn’t understand why. It was when I mentioned this later to my mother, she explained that they had probably shocked me with the paddles, if there had been problems during the operation, which she thought that there had been. I was a practicing Catholic before this happened and am not frightened to die, as I know this is all just a stepping stone to something better, which is what I tell people.

 

"I am now 46 and have had a son since, but I don’t think he was the reason I came back. I know the docs just said the experiences might have been the morphine, but I know it was something different. I fly helicopters and have rescued people, but I still don’t feel that I have reached the point which I feel that I was sent back for yet. I sometimes wonder if I am doing the right job for me now, which is strange considering how keen I was to fly before this experience. I have mentioned to some rich individuals who I have come across through my flying that they should set up a charity that would respond faster, to help the sick and children in need around the world, and I feel this has something to do with what I know I was sent back for.

 

"I am more interested in the spiritual side of life than I was before, and always said at the time of the operation anybody younger or older wouldn’t have got through the pain, as I felt like giving up at times myself. I now feel everything in life is fate, and know it’s just a stepping stone to something much better. The strange thing that I still think about is that the being I saw; it was like a negative film image with a soft light behind it. There was no speech, but the thoughts were passed to me somehow. I know it was real. I don’t think my NDE was anything to do with the morphine either, as I had 20 injections through that week and the out-of-body experience only happened at the start of my stay in hospital. I don’t know if this experience resembles anybody else’s with the negative image I saw, but thought I would share it with you."

 

Sartori, Dr Penny. Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (pp. 36-37). Watkins Media. Kindle Edition. 2014.

NDE makes a woman more "eco-friendly"

Dr. Satori writes: Heather Leese had an NDE while a patient in intensive care after a severe infection in which she nearly died. She has had numerous after effects, including an enhanced appreciation for the welfare of the planet. 

 

"It can be really tiring for me coming to terms with what’s happening right now for me and tuning into this new powerful energy! Some days I really just cannot function and become overwhelmed. My experience with the human relationship and the environment have changed, I would say, after the NDE. I have always tried to be respectful of life and the environment but after the last NDE I had, with going into the coma and experiencing the white light room, I began to feel an overwhelming connection to mother earth’s pain. It’s like I experienced the sadness she was feeling with how she was being treated; with tiredness on top of this it was a heavy burden to bear. I tried to do as much as I could but soon realized I can’t control how other people treat the land. I can only do my best as one being and started living a more clean life by trying to use eco-friendly cleaning products. 

 

"My body could not take a high exposure to chemicals so I can only use organic shampoo and salt crystal deodorant, etc. and I downgraded my car to an eco-friendly 1.1-litre engine. I recycle and when I can afford it buy only organic food and I will pick up litter on the street if it is possible (my dad laughs at me when I do this!). My thoughts on other things like emissions and stuff I can’t really go into or I choose not to because it makes me angry and that doesn’t feel beneficial to me right now. I have come to the general conclusion and have been told by spirits that people are already working on environmental issues and that my job is elsewhere at the moment, but I am in the space right now that if mother earth chooses to wipe us out for the pain we have caused her I am at total peace with this because that is her and God’s business! My family and I do what we can and a lot of people do the best they can with the knowledge they are given. Hope this makes a little sense."

 

Sartori, Dr Penny. Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (pp. 38-39). Watkins Media. Kindle Edition. 2014.

NDEs may cause relationship conflicts

Relationship problems may arise between the person and their spouse as their values can change so dramatically; it is not uncommon for couples to divorce following an NDE. Failure of others to acknowledge such an experience can also have a huge impact on the person. A few years ago I was contacted by a lady who described to me some components of the NDE which occurred as she lost consciousness during a road traffic accident. She was severely debilitated for some months due to her injuries and more than three years after the accident she could still not get over what had happened. She had been treated by several psychologists, but she could not quite work through her psychological problems. By chance she had read an article in a magazine about my research and recognized what was described as being similar to what she had experienced. After a few emails the lady was able to understand what she had experienced and was able to move on. It seems incredible that something as simple as a greater understanding of NDEs could potentially save the NHS millions of pounds while being of great benefit to patients.

Sartori, Dr Penny. Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (pp. 24-25). Watkins Media. Kindle Edition. 2014.