Has anybody on the board had a near death experience,if so what was it like to die.Some say it is a great experience.I would sure like your thoughts on this,because my wife passed over almost 5 months ago.are they happy in spirit?George

Another excellent resource is http://www.near-death.com .

It seems like most people with NDEs had a good experience on the other side, but not all, and different NDEs portray the afterlife in very different terms.  So it is hard to figure out how many of these experiences (and which ones) are really true experiences of the spirit world and which are some kind of dream or hallucination.  But, my gut feeling is that at least some of them are real, especially the ones where the person feels themself leaving the body and can look down and see their body from above.

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I'd imagine it's actually a pretty smooth transition.

I mean, just think about all those people that aren't even aware they died.  They actually need help realizing they've passed away, so I guess death can't be that much of an experience if they didn't even notice it happening to them.