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Near Death Experience
On January 21, 2006 at a friends store where I was helping to take down Christmas decorations I had a heart attack. Now this was not my first one it was actually number 7 for me. I do not remember having this one I did not feel anything other then I was a little tired. I put my stuff down and sat at the counter talking to the receptionist, I remember her saying to me you look pale and tired. I said I was a little light headed and got up went next door where they were working on my car. I paid for the car my friend who owns the car garage took my money went to get my keys, and when he returned he said I was on the ground and as gray as he has ever seen a human body. About then my friend from next door daughter walked in and she was becoming a nurse, ran over started CPR and the mechanic called 911. When the medical team arrived they started taking over and on the way to the hospital I was pronounced dead, but they kept on working on me until they arrived at the hospital. There they started all of the necessary procedures to bring me back. While they were working hard to save my life I went through a long tunnel and at the end of that tunnel I saw what I can best describe as Aura's different degrees of light just peacefully floating around. Then when I reached the end of the tunnel there it was a most Beautiful Garden with a bridge to cross over. I began my journey to the bridge only to be met by my best little friend in the world a dog that I had lost in 2001 to cancer and just could not even to that day get over his lost. As I approached the bridge his little tail started wagging like I have never seen before and I opened my arms to greet him, while in the distance I could see people none that I could recognize at first, Syd my dog jumped in my arms and began licking me like he had always in life. Then I saw my mother and father and they were pushing me back to the tunnel. No I said No I do not want to go back, I am feeling such wonderful peace here and am so glad to see them and my little fur baby. With that Syd my fur baby gave me a big kiss on the end of my nose just as he did the day he died. I then felt the pull of the vacuum, pulling me back and as I fought the pull, I then saw the emergency room and myself laying on the table with them working so hard to revive me. The Doctor then took a needle a very large needle and pushed it into my heart, with that I hear myself exclaim to the friend that had come with me, I saw Syd and my parents. I then woke up a week later to find out that I had been dead for 10 minutes and they were afraid that I would come back with brain damage or other complications. I tell you here and now I am find no problem what so ever other then I now have a pace maker/defibrillator planted in my chest.
That is the day after many years of walking away from the church that I looked out in the hallway to see a gentleman walking in the hall and I waved him into my room. I said I really think I know you but I cannot figure out from where. He said I am the pastor of Woodstown Presbyterian Church, the next town over from where I live. I then realized that I had been to his church when he delivered the eulogy for my house mates mother' funeral. I asked if I could come to his church when I got out of the hospital and he said all are welcomed. I knew that God wanted me to go and I have been going now for almost 3 years and just became a official member last week. I know now that God is working through me, and it is for him I will live my life now.
So to those of you that have often as I do wondered what the other side holds for us. I can tell you that you feel no pain upon death and that the peace you will experience is the best peace you have ever felt in your life. I know that God has a plan for me now and I no longer fear death. I know that I will receive my rewards whatever they may be when I am finished my work here on earth for my God.
Thanks for letting me vent. Richard L.Turner
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