Near Death Experience, anyone?

As the site is devoted to medical related subjects,I fell a bit surprised that no one (to my knowledge) has ever introduced a post concerning NDE (Near Death Experience). I understand this topic has given rise to a lot of research and literature.

So has anyone experienced or met someone who would have experimented this kind of phenomenon, especially in a medical setting ( heart surgery, coma, general anesthesia ) ?

May not as exciting as a subject as enemas or rectal thermometers ( I have myself devoted quite a lot of writing on this last subject) , but we can try to be a bit more serious sometimes, cant we ? .

NDEs tie in with reincarnation. I have just finished reading a book called "Soul Survivor" (note the spelling) that relates the true story of a boy who began at an early age to relate information about his previous life as a US Navy fighter pilot in the Second World War. His father initially rejected the idea of reincarnation, and in his attempt to disprove his son's story ended up discovering endless provable facts about the previous life that his young son couldn't possibly have learned.

Hugs,

Diane

ISBN: 1400113873 / ISBN-13: 9781400113873

I'm also aware of a book relating many NDEs, called "The Big Book of Near Death Experiences" by P.M.H. Atwater, It's a long fascinating read.

Here is the reference: ISBN 13: 9781571745477

Hugs,

Diane

Azdiane,

Pleased to see a reaction to my post, but I think reincarnation and NDE are two very different things even if they both relate to the supernatural.

Svensson,

I agree that they are not the same thing. I think one reminded me of the other.

I was talking with my Dad this evening, and mentioned the subjects. He reminded me that his grandmother had had three NDEs in her long life. I was ten when she died, and did not hear her story first hand, but here is what he related to me.

She was 22 and married for only a few months in 1908 when she suffered appendicitis. During the recovery following surgery she slipped away while her husband was holding her hand. She recalled leaving her body, and seeing her husband rise and run down the hospital corridor to get the doctor. She watched the doctor get up from his desk, start to come, and stop and go back for his stethoscope. She saw the light so often described by others, and was met by her own father who had died earlier. He told her it was not yet her time, and she had to go back. She said that going back into her body was "uncomfortable" but then was happy to see the loving look of joy on her husband's face when he realized she was alive. .

Ten years later, in the great influenza pandemic of 1918, she succumbed and left her body. She once again saw what people were doing around her, and things happening outside the building. She saw the light and felt indescribable love, and was disappointed when she was "sent back" to her sick body. Dad knew fewer details about this experience.

At the other end of her life, when she was 95, she had an OBE when she flatlined while undergoing colon cancer surgery. She left her body, and saw and heard the conversation in the surgical suite about her being just too old to make it. The surgeon, bless his heart, zapped her with the paddles and re-started her heart. She lived two more love-filled years.

How I wish I could talk to her now and get details.

Hugs,

Diane

Azdiane,

Thank you for all these elements on the subject..

I though NDE were a fearly recent phenomenon linked to the progress of medecine and its ability to "bring back" people in desperate condition, that makes your grandgrandmother's experiences even more interesting.

I can only speak for myself, but I prefer medical play to any consideration of an NDE. For me, that's a little too close for comfort. Having cheated death once, I decided that death is going to have to chase me much harder to get me. If I ever had an NDE, I'm not sure I'd advertise it either. It sounds like a very personal experience.

Well- Cancer does count even if it's not the single incident "drama" usually claimed as the only valid NDE.

Being told that it is a stage four cancer= near dead was how I felt it at the time.

And at a few points along the ride, it was indeed that "why am I bothering to take the next breath??" sort of scene.

Well; 2years and a few weeks later?

NOT DEAD!