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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo happy about Hamlin's progress. I wonder if he went to the LIGHT?
If he did, I wonder if he will ever share what he experienced? In some cases (first hand experience) that's what brings you back.

Elessar Zappa
(16,295 posts)Im not sure if its just the brain hallucinating or what but he says it was the most peaceful feeling hes ever felt.
kimbutgar
(24,154 posts)As I was going down the river my tube snagged on a branch and I was plunged underwater. I tried to swim up but I was caught in between two currents and started to panic and then I saw a light and got calm, a few moments later I saw a hand and I grabbed it and came up from the water and nobody was there and my inner tube was in swimming distance.
I saw the light but fate said it wasnt my time.
recovering_democrat
(300 posts)Ditto to previous comment. My mother in law was actually declared dead and taken to the hospital morgue. She "woke up" there. This was in 1960s. Validity of family was she told exactly what those persons in critical care unit were doing while she was pronounced dead, and her version matched almost exactly. She lived about 8 more years. I personally had "heart attack" fibrillation, treated in emergency and recovered. Similar to the described heart failure of Hamlin. Whatever you believe, don't count miracles out.
Xoan
(25,477 posts)that the game wasn't finished.
BlueKota
(3,834 posts)A doctor, who was seeing me for the first time, just skimmed over my chart, and saw I had high cholesterol, and since he also was taking over my Mom's care too, he knew she had to have coronary bypasses of five arteries. What apparently he didn't notice in his concern about my cholesterol levels was I was also on blood pressure medication.
He recommended a Niacin supplement to help lower my cholesterol more. Well it also lowers blood pressure. Between that and the drug I was prescribed previously, it lowered my BP so low, that I collapsed on my way out of a restaurant onto a frozen sidewalk.
Luckily a paramedic who had just gotten off duty was on his way into the restaurant, and he heard my Mom and sister yelling for help. When he got to me, he told them I had no pulse, and was not breathing.
While all this was going on, I was in my mind laying in a field of sunflowers. The sky was the most beautiful I had ever seen. I saw the sun and I could look directly at it with no glare or burning sensation. Then I felt myself rising off the ground towards it. The words, "I'm going home," popped into my head, and I felt more loved, and more at peace than I ever had. I wanted to go.
But then I felt my head being tilted back, and my mother screaming my name, and shouting don't leave me, and my older sister, saying please stay with us. I gasped, and was back just as the paramedic was about to start CPR.
The ambulance came and they took me to the ER, where at first they thought I had a coronary, but when they read my medication list over the phone to the cardiologist he figured out what happened. The morning nurse told me I coded four times in the night. She said take that Niacin, bury it in kitty litter, toss it in the trash, and never take it again, no matter who tells you to.
Prior to that experience I was afraid of dying, but I am not really anymore, although occasionally I think, I hope I haven't done anything since to change where I am going. 🤣
fierywoman
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Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)And I saw no light or any of that other woo nonsense.
It was like being deeply asleep, and in a void. That was it.
I didn't even know I'd almost died until I was "back."