Does anyone have a near death experience story that they would like to share?
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 wa
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/ http://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 fri
