i will share my own near death experience story, with the hope that some anon will find it useful.
in 2014 i was in a motorcycle wreck, hit head on by a drunk driver while driving home from work in Vietnam. we both went over the handlebars and my front teeth went into his skull over his eyebrow.
at first there was nothing, a void, with a ringing sound, eeeeeeeeeeee
then i saw myself from about 10-15 feet above, my body with arms and legs bent, lying on my back next to the motorbikes with wheels spinning, as a crowd gathered.
then i felt a suction, like the feeling when you hold two magnets apart, and got further away from my body. i went through a tunnel made of light.
i emerged in a sunlit field of grass. it was warm and very peaceful. i felt like a small child. i looked up and a figure was standing over me, wearing a robe made of light. i can't remember the figure's face.
it said, "this is what being dead is like. it's not so bad, is it?"
it explained that i had to make a choice now. i could remain dead, and go be with my ancestors in the spirit world (at this point I felt the presence of my grandpa, who had recently passed away, like he was standing just offstage) or I could return to life. but if i went back to life, i could only ever work in ways that helped other people, i couldn't serve just myself. i had to do things to help other people. he also said that i'd have to go through addiction and it would be horrible, and i might not make it (this was true).
i woke up as my chin was being sewn back together in the emergency room. i went back to the scene of the accident a few days later when i could walk again and a woman ran up to me and explained in Vietnamese that i had been dead, not breathing, the paramedics had dragged me off to the side of the road while they worked on the other guy, when i gasped, stood up and hitched a ride to the ER on the back of a stranger's motorbike lol. probably scared the hell out of all the poor Vietnamese people.
