Near death experiences stories

[mondkmondk]

As a spin off to the nursing ghost stories thread, I am an avid reader of anything regarding death/dying. I just wondered how many near death experience stories we as nurses hear from our patients. Apparently, the bright light stories are common, as are the stories about floating above your body. Any others???? Would LOVE to hear them!

Thanks and blessings, Michelle

[SarahRN1203]

I work in an ICU, so as you can imagine, we run across this fairly frequently. several years ago, we had a young patient (40's?) who was hemorrhaging after surgery. He was hypotensive, vented, and unconscious (without meds) for almost 8 hours. A couple days later, the tech was giving him a bath on the night shift. He looked at her, and said, "I know you-- you're the angel who sat with me that night". Sure enough, she was the person who sat and held his hand through a lot of the night he was bleeding out. He had never met her before, and was unconscious by the time she came into his room that night.

[thomasl]

I occasionally attend NDE support groups in the Ft Lauderdale area and the stories are very interesting. I believe they are real journies and bring hope for everyone.

[Argo]

I was an outsider watching this persons experience. I have seen 3 similar during peoples deaths. This one in particular was the 2nd open heart surgery,which was emergent, I did a few years ago. The man was grabbing for the air all the way to the OR with both arms. I asked him what he was grabbing for and he said "my wife". I asked if he wanted to talk to her, he said she died a few years back but he keeps seeing her while on the stretcher. As I started an art line and anesthesia put him to sleep he reached one last time. He never woke up.

[Alnitak7]

I had a patient one time who had one of them. He became religious after his accident that left him brain injured.

He was doing a lot of exploitative behavior so I was thinking that he couldn't have met an all-loving God like he thought he had.

[NDE Experience]

Those are some great stories of NDE's! There's a lot of new video's now a days of near death experiences testimonies online. I watch a lot of them at: ]NDE Accounts A Near Death Experience Community Website

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I'm glad I dont remember my death experience. Drowning I hear is a horrible and painful way to go. The only thing that came from it was I became terrified of people dunking me in water for fear that I would never come up again.