Although scientists are yet to find proof of life after death, many people believe they have already been to the afterlife. One man, who only gave his name as Douglas, claims to have briefly passed onto the other side after accidentally drowning as a child. The man shared his harrowing tale with the Near Death Experience Foundation (NDERF).
According to Douglas, who was only four-years-old at the time of the incident, he jumped into a canal near his home “one of those hot summer days in Michigan”.
Because he did not know how to swim and forgot to wear his usual life jacket, Douglas sunk to the bottom of the canal.
After fruitless attempts to get back to the surface, Douglas said he realised his “life must be over”.
He said: “At the very instant that this thought ended, my intense panic and confusion switched to an immense calm, and a feeling of comfort.
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“I no longer felt the pain in my head. There was a deep silence that surrounded me.
“There was peacefulness and I felt a sense of safety and comfort. I felt that everything was going to be ok.
“There was a deep silence that surrounded me. There was peacefulness, and I felt a sense of safety and comfort.
“I felt that everything was going to be ok. There was no sound. It was pitch black, yet I had the presence of being somewhere.”
Douglas said he no longer felt surrounded by water and he did not feel like he was alone.
He said: “I was startled by an unexpected, deep baritone male voice.
“Out of that divine darkness that voice said: ‘It’s not your time.'”
People describe a sensation of a bright, warm, welcoming light
Dr Sam Parmia, NYU Langone School of Medicine
The next thing he knew, he was being resuscitated by his father.
He said: “After many years of this memory I came to realize that my death experience provided an opportunity for insight into the afterlife.
“When I became a middle-aged adult, I began to wonder where did I go?”
Many scientists, however, do not believe afterlife experiences are real and instead explain them through natural processes.
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According to Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City, NDEs could be explained by the brain scanning itself during the traumatic experience.
He said during an OZ Talk: “People describe a sensation of a bright, warm, welcoming light that draws people towards it.
“They describe a sensation of experiencing their deceased relatives, almost as if they have come to welcome them. They often say that they didn’t want to come back in many cases, it is so comfortable and it is like a magnet that draws them that they don’t want to come back.
“A lot of people describe a sensation of separating from themselves and watching doctors and nurses working on them.”
The NDE expert said there are scientific explanations for these experiences.
According to the NHS, NDEs do not count as genuine instances of someone dying.
The NHS said: “A more accepted definition of death is when brain stem death occurs, which is when all neural activity in the deepest brain ceases.
“While it is possible to keep the heart functioning using life support systems, a person with brain stem death has permanently lost the potential for consciousness.
“The existence of an ‘afterlife’ remains a matter of belief, not scientific proof.”
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