Is there life after death? People who have ‘died’ reveal their incredible tales

A light at the end of a dark tunnel, the voice of loved ones, a chorus of angels. Even the cries of the damned.

They are just some of the famous accounts of those who claim to have glimpsed the afterlife and miraculously returned.

Now MailOnline has collected three fascinating stories from people who have been taken off the brink and wanted to share their own captivating experiences.

They offer a fascinating insight into what might happen to the fate that inevitably awaits us all.

Lynn Mildner: ‘There was a beautiful white light that I knew I had to go to’

Lynn Mildner, 69, of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, has a vivid memory of seeing a ‘beautiful white light’ in the distance and talking to deceased relatives.

Mrs. Mildner, then 30 years old, was given a general anesthetic for a wisdom tooth extraction.

But there was a complication while she was unconscious for the routine procedure.

Doctors were forced to restore her heart’s normal rhythm with a defibrillator – a device used to shock the heart of someone in cardiac arrest.

Ms Mildner was kept in intensive care before being discharged.

Looking back on her experience, she said, “Everything was peaceful. There was a beautiful white light that I knew I had to go to.

‘It was easy. I was just bobbing and floating, palpably happy. I reached some kind of entrance.

“It wasn’t detailed, I just knew it was one and on top of that there was an entity that I knew was my great-aunt Nellie. She explained that she was my guardian spirit.

“I couldn’t wait to cross that threshold and meet my grandmothers. But Aunt Nellie said I couldn’t.

“I had to go back because I still had so much to do and achieve. I begged her to come in and she said no. That threshold was final. Once you passed it, there was no turning back. And I have to go back.

“The return journey was uphill, in a dark tunnel, and very hard, as if going against gravity. I didn’t want to go.

“And then my eyes flickered and I saw people in scrubs holding up my arms and one of them holding the paddles of a defibrillator.”

Justin Cameron: ‘I saw a supercut reel of my life in the blink of an eye’

Justin Cameron, 51, of Ottawa, Canada, was hospitalized with sepsis – a life-threatening reaction to an infection.

Mr Cameron, who was 44 at the time, had diverticulitis – small bulges in the lining of the gut – which developed into peritonitis, an infection of the inner lining of the abdomen.

He had to have emergency surgery to remove part of his intestine.

But while awaiting surgery, Mr Cameron claimed he had a near-death experience.

He recalls feeling no pain but a sense of regret, in addition to feeling like he was “slipping away.”

He said, “All the clichés about life that flash before you are somewhat correct; I saw a supercut reel of my life in the blink of an eye. I have learned that death is painless. The sepsis was excruciating, but the death was painless.

“The best way I can describe it is that it was like the driver (me) left the vehicle (my body) on the side of the road because it stopped working.

“I felt joy and love while at the same time regretting not taking better care of my vehicle.”

Mr Cameron explained that he was so far ‘jaded, cynical and awed by the world and life’.

But he now says he feels like he’s been given “new eyes and ears to see and hear the magic of the world.”

Shirley Yanez: ‘I could see my body in the hospital bed’

Shirley Yanez, 66, nearly died of cardiac arrest after developing an 8-pound fibroid — a benign growth — in her uterus in 2005.

She says she almost “bleeded out” and received three blood transfusions, which her body rejected.

This caused her heart to stop and she claimed she “died for a few minutes” during which she could see her body in the hospital bed with blood on the sheets.

Miss Yanez, who lives in London, said: ‘It was peaceful and I could see my body in the hospital bed and the blood on the sheets and all the machines beeping.

“I saw the ER come into the room and at that point I felt like I had pins and needles all over my body as the new blood was pumped around and I reburied my body.

“This experience has changed me forever and today I am a completely different person.”

Miss Yanez explained that as a result, she is now celibate, a vegan, doesn’t drink and tries to live a “clean life.”

She added, “Once you know what it’s like to have a second chance at life, you change everything and rethink your choices.

“My near-death experience was the best thing that happened to me, because today I don’t fear death and I embrace life.”

Dr. Bruce Greyson, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, has studied near-death experiences for more than 45 years and is one of the world’s leading experts in the field.

He told MailOnline that experts are still unable to explain or explain this phenomenon.

He said, “When I first heard about people seeing and hearing things when they were supposedly dead, I thought they were imagining it because it seemed impossible in my materialistic worldview.

“But when I began to investigate these experiences, I studied many cases where the people were unmistakably unconscious and near death, but were later able to accurately and in detail describe very startling events that they could not have guessed or expected.

“I think this phenomenon is more common than we realize, but I have no materialistic explanation for it.”

But he suggested they may be caused by part of the mind being able to perceive and remember things independently of the body “under extreme conditions.”

Dr. Greyson said, “Most people who describe near-death experiences to me say there are no words to describe what happened to them.

“And then we ask them to tell us about their experience, forcing them to distort the experience by relying on metaphors and approximate descriptions.”

As a result, he does not view their accounts as “literal descriptions,” but hears them as “metaphors for something that did happen.”

He added: “On the other hand, if they tell us about what they remember seeing and hearing in this world while they were unconscious and near death, we can sometimes test the accuracy of what they say by asking confirmation. search of other people who were present. at the time.

“And when we do, we find that the vast majority of their accounts are completely accurate.”