Near-death experience through the insights of insiders

The NDErs recount the vivid memories of the blinding light, feeling the soul leave the body, the serenity, the strange peace or meeting the deceased relatives.

Tony Cicoria, orthopedic surgeon was struck by lightning while trying to call his mother from Sleepy Hollow Lake, a suburb of New York, USA, during a family trip. Lightning transmitted through the phone to the head made his heart stop beating. Cicoria recounts how he sees himself escaping from his body, passing through the walls to a place with a bluish-white light in the mood to be eager for God. After being rescued, Cicoria suddenly had an intense passion for classical piano pieces. Circumstances that automatically popped up in the head, Circoria believed she was allowed to return to be a messenger to bring "heavenly music" to life.

The head-to-head drive caused Tricia Barker, a college student in Austin, Texas, USA, to lose a lot of blood and break his spine.Barker said she left her body during the surgery, floating near the ceiling and looking down at her own life monitor.Moving along the hospital corridor, she said she saw her stepfather struggling with grief, he went to buy a candy bar from the vending machine.The action stemmed from this excessive tension her stepfather never told anyone.This is the reason why Barker truly believes what he experiences is real.Sticking with the work of creative writing professor, she said that she still gets the souls accompanying the world on the other side.

Carol Burke was seriously injured in a car accident at the staff car park, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, USA.Having a splenectomy and attaching many broken bones, Burke lost half of his blood.Recalling the moments of being close to death, her grandmother hovered near the ceiling of the sick room, looking down at her mother and a friend standing at the foot of the bed, afraid of losing her forever.Her feelings were then serenity, incredible peace and full of love.

Ashlee Barnett is a college student when she had a car accident on a deserted highway in Texas, USA.Broken pelvis, spleen and bleeding a lot, Ashlee stands between the boundaries of the two worlds: one side of panic and pain when the doctors are trying to save her life and one side has white light, no more pain, fear.Years after the haunting incident, Barnett discovered cancer, but his near-death experience kept her confident that she would live.Ashlee has three children, her job is to advise survivors who experience psychological trauma.

Pam Kircher became infected with meningitis at the age of 6 years.She still remembers the memory when facing a near death.In the room at the small house on the outskirts of St.Joseph, Missouri, USA, Kircher looked down at the girl lying on the bed.Immediately, the 6-year-old girl realized this was herself and returned to her body.Fearing to be ridiculed and alienated, Kircher kept this memory secret for four decades, but still took it as a driving force for every decision in his life.Choosing to become a family doctor, when she retired, Ms. Kircher continued to work at a hospice.Kircher hoped her story would help people to be relieved when facing death.

Off the coast of California one night in 1983, David Bennett, chief technician of a research ship and crew tried to escape the big storm on an inflatable boat. More than 1.6 km from shore, the small boat was engulfed by a wave of 9m high. All were knocked down into the freezing cold Pacific Ocean. Damaged life jacket, Bennett sank into the sea, feeling the water filling his lungs. Covering the door of death, Bennett said he felt very happy at the time. Bennett also spoke of a voice saying that this was not his time. After 18 minutes of sinking into the sea, Bennett miraculously emerged on the water, staggering. According to National Geographic, images in near-death experience, according to some scientists, are simply reflections of activities in the brain due to the effects of sudden hypoxia .Others believe, this is probably what humans actually face after death.The debate on this subject continues with many conflicts and poses many challenges to the scientific community.However, the common point of controversy among those who stood on the line of life and death was that when they returned they were more aware of their purpose of life.