Readers Stories Life After Death This happened to my mother's cousin, who I call my aunt. She became very, very ill, with a bad infection in a bone, and her hospital doctors wanted to operate on her. Unfortunately, because of the infection, she had a very high temperature, and the operation could not go ahead until her temperature was more under control. She was in a high dependency unit, sedated, and was literally being surrounded by ice by the nurses to try to reduce her body temperature. At one point during the three days she was in the unit, the nurses became very worried about her and called for her doctors urgently. Her husband was told to prepare for the worst, as they didn't think she would pull through, and at one point her heart stopped and they were convinced her brain function was slowing. Luckily, due to the good work of her carers, she began to recover, and the operation to remove the infected bone was carried out a week later. She'd been sedated the whole time and slowly recovered and is now well. The interesting part is that when she came round from the operation, she told her husband exactly what had happened on the day her heart stopped and it was thought she was dying. She had "woken up" to find herself sitting on the windowsill of the room and looking down at the scene below her. It was a room with small windows around the ceiling and plain walls, but she had never seen it as she had been sedated the whole time she was in there. She said she was not afraid, "just interested". She described how she had watched the nurses replacing the ice around her body, her husband holding her hand and crying (which he was not known for - in fact, she's probably the only person who can say she's seen him in tears). She then saw the doctors using the defibrillator to restart her heart. She had looked at the clock and later told them the exact time they used the defibrillator. The records the doctors made after the event corroborate her story. She then said she felt her husband tug on her hand, and she knew she had to stay with him and could not leave, and she made a conscious decision to stay, although she had felt at the time that if she wanted to leave she could have. She could not say where she would have gone. Just to finish, this happened about ten years ago and she is now quite well. She is very open about her experience, and says she will not be afraid to die as there is nothing to worry about and it is a very straightforward thing to happen. She herself is a very down to earth person, and not prone to flights of fancy, and I absolutely believe in what she experienced. Her doctors can not explain how she could tell them the exact time her heart stopped, as she was dead, and if they had not used the defibrillator she would have simply slipped away.
Sandra
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