NDEs: serious illness

56 cases

Near-death experiences, told by the people who lived through them. Each one checked against the same five questions.

Serious illness 9

United States, 1978

Mrs. M.

She was resuscitated in her hospital bed. She later said she saw them prick her hand with a small needle, and she talked about blood gases. Her medical record notes that blood was taken from an artery at 7:30.

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Zurich, 1944

Carl Gustav Jung

After a heart attack in 1944, Carl Gustav Jung said he saw the Earth from space. According to him, his doctor appeared to him to say he had to go back, and from then on Jung feared for the doctor’s life. The doctor died months later.

3.5 of 5

London, 1924

Doris

Doris was dying after giving birth and said she could see her sister Vida. Vida had died 18 days earlier, and no one had told Doris.

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Colombia, around 1985

Luding Coenen

She had a hemorrhage in childbirth and says she saw her grandparents and a light. She says that years later she saw buildings falling at two in the morning. It was the time of an earthquake in Turkey.

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Leeds, 1880

John Ogle

John Ogle was dying in Leeds and said George Hanley’s name in surprise. According to his mother, George Hanley had died ten days earlier, and no one had told John.

3 of 5

Asturias, Spain, 2005

María Teresa Álvarez Aramendía

She says that while she was in a coma she saw her doctor call another doctor from the health center at 8:10. According to her, months later he told her that he had made that call.

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San Diego, 2004 or 2005

Randy Kay

Randy Kay, a medical-company executive in San Diego, was hospitalized with blood clots in his lungs and caught a very serious infection in the hospital. He said his heart stopped, that he met Jesus, and that when he came back he heard beside him the same song he had heard with Jesus.

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Oklahoma, 2009

Crystal McVea

In 2009, Crystal McVea, a teacher from Oklahoma, stopped breathing in a hospital. She said she was with God and saw a little girl with a basket. Afterward, her mother found a photo.

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Texas, 1943

George Ritchie

In 1943, George Ritchie, a 20-year-old soldier, was pronounced dead in an army hospital in Texas. He said he flew to a city by a river and saw a cafe that he recognized months later in Vicksburg.

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