Near Death Experiences?

donnycornelius

Do any of you know someone personally who's had a near death experience?

Just curious.

Probably the closest I've got is that my grandma (father's mother) was dying in a hospital.  She had been unconscious for roughly a week.   A nurse told my aunt that she came in one time (close to the end) and my grandma was talking.   The nurse asked her who she was talking to, and my grandma said she was talking to her son David, right there on the bed.    David was my dad, who had died about 7 months earlier.  The nurse asked my aunt later if my grandma had a son named David, and my aunt told her that she did, but he had just recently died.

 

ReturnOfKuus

I started to fall asleep once and in my loopy delirium thought my soul was slipping away from my body.  Does that count?  Maybe it really was.

donnycornelius

Hmmm.    Maybe? 

I find it so interesting that Steve Jobs said, "oh wow, oh wow, oh wow" and was looking over his family's shoulders when he died.   I wonder what he saw/felt.   And I hope he really did say "oh wow" and not "oh ow."   

I know my dad had a really vivid dream two nights before he died.   And even when he woke up, he was talking to my mom like he was still in the dream.    But you know, I've walked into walls and said all kinds of kooky stuff when I'm in a sleep haze, so I don't know if there was anything remarkable about that experience.

TarponMonoxide

I had an uncle that had one when he was about 22.

He worked in a bakery and got burned in a fire -- he said he saw flowers and heard bells and only "came back" because an aunt was praying for him.

steve&heather

The day before my aunt died in hospice, she was perfectly coherent and clear (at this point she was on IV and liquid morphine so clear and coherent were not the norm). She sat up in bed and made a big fuss about how she was home and thanked everyone for keeping it just as it was--she even petted one of her cats.

She had a very calm evening and the next day was quite peaceful, then in the evening she dozed off and died in her sleep.

lildevil968

I used to work as a CSA in nursing home a while back.  I had been working there for about 2 wks when I heard a woman yelling "get him away from me, get him out of my room". I ran to her room, and no one was there, so I asked her where the man went, and what he looked like. She said he was wearing black, and standing in the corner of her room. I went back the nurses station, told them what happened, and they said she would be dead in a few days. Sure enough 2 days later the lady had died in her sleep. I worked there for 3 years, and every patient that saw the man in black died within a few days.

Muddled

Awww. I like the story of your grandma talking to your dad.

My grandmother talks to her mother and sisters (all dead) all the time and has been doing it for more than a year. We think she is ready to go, but she's still here.

 

ReturnOfKuus

lildevil968:

I used to work as a CSA in nursing home a while back.  I had been working there for about 2 wks when I heard a woman yelling "get him away from me, get him out of my room". I ran to her room, and no one was there, so I asked her where the man went, and what he looked like. She said he was wearing black, and standing in the corner of her room. I went back the nurses station, told them what happened, and they said she would be dead in a few days. Sure enough 2 days later the lady had died in her sleep. I worked there for 3 years, and every patient that saw the man in black died within a few days.

 

This is not reassuring.

Mortomo

When BF's mom was in the hospital dying from breast cancer she started talking to Jesus while he was there.  He thought she was praying, but she said that Jesus came to her in her room and told her that everything will be okay and not to worry and that he would see her soon. BF said she seemed calm and at peace after that and she died a few days later.

My grandpa had a similar experience in the ICU the night he died.  He talked to Jesus and his father (who he never really got along with) and they told him they would be seeing him soon and not to worry.  My grandpa held out until just after midnight and died the same date as his father.

doglove

lildevil968:

I used to work as a CSA in nursing home a while back.  I had been working there for about 2 wks when I heard a woman yelling "get him away from me, get him out of my room". I ran to her room, and no one was there, so I asked her where the man went, and what he looked like. She said he was wearing black, and standing in the corner of her room. I went back the nurses station, told them what happened, and they said she would be dead in a few days. Sure enough 2 days later the lady had died in her sleep. I worked there for 3 years, and every patient that saw the man in black died within a few days.

OMG What? The grim reaper or something coming for all these people? Ditto Kuus... definitely not reassuring in the slightest. Especially that she was screaming for him to get away.

buggywhips

Hmm not as creepy as some of them but I have a friend who had severe pre-e and toxemia when she was pregnant with her youngest.  She was slipping in an out of consciousness and having seizures.  I talked to her on the phone a few times and she was so drugged up she wasn't coherent.  Talking to her afterwords she said seriously thought she was dying.  She knew they would take the baby and he would be fine but she wasn't sure if she would make it.  

donnycornelius

lildevil968:

I used to work as a CSA in nursing home a while back.  I had been working there for about 2 wks when I heard a woman yelling "get him away from me, get him out of my room". I ran to her room, and no one was there, so I asked her where the man went, and what he looked like. She said he was wearing black, and standing in the corner of her room. I went back the nurses station, told them what happened, and they said she would be dead in a few days. Sure enough 2 days later the lady had died in her sleep. I worked there for 3 years, and every patient that saw the man in black died within a few days.

Oh wow!  That is so creepy!  

 

heymistay

oh my goodness, the black figure is so creepy!

When my grandmother was passing away she had hospice home care.  My mom and aunt were in my grandma's bedroom and they saw a man in white enter her bedroom and they assumed it was a new hospice nurse.  When they looked back up no one was there.  That night my grandma woke up and sat straight up in bed (mind you, she had brain, lung and breast cancer and was so tired and sickly).  My aunts said her face looked like she was 20 without a wrinkle.  She said she saw grandpa slim and that everything was finally going to be ok.  She passed away the next morning.

Also, a few weeks before she passed away my mom and grandma were in the car coming home from the dr or something.  She had a super long driveway with a big gate.  When my mom pulled up to the gate my grandma was gasping for breath with a really scared look on her face.  My mom asked what she was seeing and my grandma was hysterical saying no one would believe her and she needed to pray right away.  So I dont know what she saw but I made my mom promise that if she saw anything freaky she would tell me what it was!

Haley528

I wish I didn't have a real life reason to respond to this,but unfortunately I do. I was in a car accident back in March of this year on my way to work one morning. I was on the interstate,rush hour traffic, and of course traffic was going slow. I was going about 35 but the girl behind me was going 70 plus and hit me at full impact (she was putting her makeup on AND talking on her phone). After the accident I went to an urgent care that did x-rays and a ct scan and said it was severe whiplash and that it would be fine and to come back in a week. I noticed over the week that I was developing a neurological twitch that progressively got worse...the urgent care also said that would "go away" on it's own. So we sought another opinion, by this time I was three weeks out from the accident. I went to a neurologist and she noticed right away that something wasn't right on the x-ray and ordered an MRI. The following week I had the MRI and before getting out of town I got a call saying a neurosurgeon needed to see me at 8am the next morning. We found out at that appointment that I had actually broken my neck and the twitches were coming from the vertibrae pressing into my spinal cord. I had been walking around and going to work for five weeks with a broken neck and had no idea. We were told that had I tripped or fallen I would have been paralyzed from the neck down. Before leaving the office, I was scheduled for emergency surgery two days later. BTW,we found all this out ONE month before our wedding day. So I had an anterior and posterior 4 level spinal fusion less than one month before walking down the aisle. Nothing's more romantic than a cervical collar on your honeymoon!