Here’s the story. The ER staff at Hartford Hospital works frantically on a comatose woman, but despite their efforts, she stops 
breathing. Two tries with defibrillation paddles are futile. The woman is dead. BUT—as the doctor is jotting the time of her death, she pulls off the ventilator and starts talking.
She had felt drawn out of her body, she says—upwards, through several floors, to the roof of the hospital. As she stood admiring the view, she noticed a red shoe off to the side.
The hospital staff listen politely, figuring she’s describing a dream. Then, on a whim, someone suggests checking the roof and sends an orderly.
He returns, red shoe in hand, and silently presses it into the doctor’s hand.
Evidence. Scientific evidence, if you will: A red shoe on the roof of a hospital, seen by a woman far down in the ER.
Near-Death Experiences. Are these accounts fake stories? Click this link for a scholarly assessment. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1655&context=student_scholarship
Story after story corroborate the fact of life after death. People recount information they could not possibly have gotten, such as 
conversations they’ve overheard, sometimes blocks away.
Even Jesus told a story—the rich man and the beggar Lazarus—that points out the great divide between heaven and hell. The near-universal elements of this death dimension include a long tunnel leading to a bright being, and an atmosphere of pure love.
This harks back to our discussion of evolution. Naturalists say that consciousness is solely the product of brain processes or neurological events. However, even medical science is looking closely at the phenomenon. How do you explain a blind person seeing her doctor drop his pen and later reporting—accurately—where it had fallen?
If heaven is real, what about hell? Some atheists have traveled that dark tunnel and gotten glimpses of a reality that made 
them change their entire belief system.
God’s loving hand reaches toward us, and in this broken world, I have chosen to serve as one of His agents of love.
No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me….
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.
Have you had a NDE? I want to hear your story—below or egus@me.com.
Are you ready for that long tunnel that leads to LIFE or DEATH?
No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me….
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand. My very favorite hymn. What do you think the main point of Luke 16:19-31 is all about?
Yes, I love that hymn also and I recognized it right away. I have never had an actual near death experience but I have had moments or situations whereby I was certain that God had preserved my life. It is certainly a topic worth contemplating. But I am so happy that I can say that I am ready for that long tunnel that leads to LIFE. Take care, Ellie. Love, Kathy
I have not had an NDE but I did have a dream one time when I wanted to commit suicide. I was sobbing on my bed and suddenly was at the gates of heaven but everything was dark. I knocked for a long time and finally someone came shuffling along in big slippers. He wanted to know what I wanted. I said I wanted to come in. He said he would have to check to see if my name was there. It seemed like a long time before he returned to say that yes, my name was there, but they were not expecting me yet. I became aware of a knocking at the door. This lady who went to our church but had never come to visit me, was knocking at my door. I let her in. She said God told her to come and spend the day with me. She never came again. But her companionship that day was so needed. Any future time when I was very depressed, the “not expecting you yet” kept me from doing physical harm to myself. I am so thankful for the help I have received along the way that I know now that I will wait for the Lord to come for me when it is time.
I have never had a NDE but, I still pray that my dear departed wife Marilyn is in a better place sharing God’s goodnesses.
Thank you Ellie for this timely post…It seems this is certainly a time of Spiritual activity in many people..God can certainly use these NDE to express His love and care for us. I have never had one, but some of my patients have…
No NDE here, but this post is so meaningful–thank you, Ellie.
There is no complete understanding of so-called near-death phenomena such as would support your theology or anybody else’s. For all we know the “visions” that people have when they’re dying may be illusions caused by simple brain chemistry activity brought on by stress. No doubt, people’s hallucinations depend on what kind of religious fables they were fed as children. I don’t believe in either a heaven OR a hell. Considering our insignificant position relative to the entire universe, neither makes sense. You might just as well speculate that when you die you’re going to wake up back in nineteen-forty-whatever and do it all over again, like a cosmic Groundhog Day. As far as Pascal’s Wager goes, I never bet on an outcome I won’t be around to see.
Thanks, Denis, for responding, but how DO you explain people seeing or hearing things they could not possibly have seen or heard? You can’t just swipe it away by calling it an illusion. If this were just one occurrence, illusion might be appropriate, but you can’t ignore multiple occasions of unexplainable reports.
I have not had an NDE, but know of a 5 year old who did. She was unconscious with a high fever. After waking up, she told her parents she had seen Jesus and heaven. It was very real. We are convinced she did see heaven. I get goosebumps remembering the storyl
Hi Ellie, belatedly as we’ve just returned from a trip: no NDE, but a couple of years ago there was a loud bang inside our house in the middle of the night. I felt my husband leap to the doorway and saw him listening, arm propped against the jamb in his usual posture… but he looked sort of incorporeal. I turned my head, and there he was solidly in bed beside me. Can’t tell me there are no out of body experiences! God bless.:) (PS Never identified the bang.)