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

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.