http://www.neardeathsite.com/gibson.php

Albert,

Thanks for posting this NDE account.  It ranks as one of the most evidentially significant paranormal evidences for an afterlife posted on this site.  When I have time, I'll repost other 'shared" NDEs and after-death contacts that are equally evidential.

Don

Of course, group NDEs are interesting. At the link's site, though, I found the report a bit spare. Second-hand seemingly, and no actual confirmation of his fellow-firefighters. To call this "evidently significant" certainly is disproportionate. Not that I doubt NDEs, but I miss your sceptical sense here, which at other occasions is quite present, Don.

Spooky

I find the very last line intriguing:

The article does not offer actual quotes from the others, but only this interesting shared experience of 'choice'.

quote:
They, too, had met with other members of their deceased families and were given the choice of remaining where they were or of returning to earth.

Does this not remind you, in some way, of a kind of benevolent force/or being/if you choose which directs our consciousness at the moment of death, or at some point thereafter, which helps you to find the truth of who you are and what you really want to accomplish here, even if it is in the most raw and incomplete of motivations, it's just so compelling...and yet, each seems to speak of a kind of aching nostalgia for the incredible boundless freedom of the world awaiting them. So difficult to decide, and yet, the outcome appears to occur with an overwhelming sense of urgency, if the person is drawn back to earth in a forceful way. If there was a way that the medical establishment could determine how to make this reentry more gentle, well, that would be an advance.

Yes, when I think of what I can't understand (and the more I think the more I don't understand) it becomes obvious that it isn't this aware-of-my-thoughts-me that holds my world together. And in physical death, limits fall away.

As to the desirable more comfortable comeback, when God, as on that website's article, showed his/her might upon the elements, then I'm sure God will fix this problem soon  ;) .

Spooky