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Over the years there have been many cases of people who have experiended Near Death Syndrome. In some situations like these and particularly in ressusitive cases, individuals retell their stories of having gone to heaven ... and even hell. Here are a fewl aced with humor contemporary cases that should prove to be mental worthy.

Angie Fenimore

Angie Fenimore attempted suicide in January of 1991. The first thing she recalls after dying is being subjected to a "life review," a phenomenon that's common to several descriptions of near-death experiences. Basically, your entire life unfolds in front of you in a series of images, and you relive the events from the point of view of the people you interacted with during each of those moments. You feel how your actions made them feel.

After the life review ended, Fenimore remembers being surrounded in darkness that seemed to go on forever. She could make out the figures of a group of young people nearby and blurted out, "Oh, we must be the suicides." I know that's inappropriate, but at the same time, it's still pretty great. Also great: the fact that she didn't actually have to speak to say it. She realized she could communicate using thought alone, but also that no matter how much she tried, she would never make a connection with or elicit a response from any of the damned souls around her, as evidenced by the lack of crowd response to her suicide bit. At one point, she was banished to a different part of Hell, one that resembled something more like an open field, and in which lost souls roamed about, fully able to communicate with each other but too consumed by their own misery to engage in any sort of human interaction.

Matthew Botsford

Matthew Botsford was standing outside an Atlanta restaurant when a shot rang out. Two men who'd been denied entry into the establishment moments earlier, in what has to be one of the most over-the-top customer service freakouts of all time, were indiscriminately firing at the front of the building. One of the bullets hit Botsford in the head. He remembers feeling a pain like a hot needle driving into his skull, then falling to the pavement, at which point everything went black. He died three times on the way to and at the hospital before doctors finally put him into a medically-induced coma that lasted for 27 days.

His descriptions of the things he saw while in that coma are nothing short of terrifying. Things began with him shackled at his wrists and ankles, suspended in midair over a deep, glowing red pit. Inside the pit, four-legged creatures roamed the floor while smoke billowed up from the magma below. Each plume of smoke contained exactly one tortured soul, suffering all alone.

That's something else Botsford made note of ... the isolation. All around him he could hear the screams of millions of damned souls, but their company was meaningless, because he understood that he was by himself and that this would last for eternity.

He's kind of overstating that loneliness, though, because at one point, a team of demons showed up to eat his flesh right from the bone, only to have it immediately grow back so they could eat it again.

Finally, he was spared when a gigantic hand reached through the wall and pulled him out. As it did, he heard someone say, "It's not your time."

Howard Storm

Howard Storm was a devout atheist for most of his life. At the age of 38, he suffered a perforated stomach, and as you've probably gathered from the direction of this article so far, it led to a near-death experience. His didn't start with a life review. Instead, it started exactly how most films that involve people dying and becoming ghosts tend to start. When he "woke up," he could see the people around his hospital bed, but they couldn't hear him speak. He'd stop someone walking in his direction to ask them a question and they'd breeze right through him. Not past him; through him. He was dead. He was a ghost.

Soon, he noticed a group of figures gathered at a door leading to a hallway. They urged him to follow them, and he reluctantly stepped out into the hallway. Upon doing that, he found himself enveloped in a thick fog. The figures he'd followed into the hall were moving ahead. He followed along.

On the first part of the journey, he described the figures as "playful" when they badgered him to keep up. He could see his hospital room when he looked back, but as he moved further, it got smaller and smaller. As he followed the shadowy figures deeper into the fog, their demeanor changed. Soon, it escalated to pushing and shoving. Next thing you know, they started doing what demons do and decided to eat his flesh.

He cowered on the ground ready to give up when a voice in his head, which he recognized as his own, said, "Pray to God." Being a lifelong Ricky-Gervais-level atheist, he responded to himself with the most honest answer possible: "I don't know how." Still, when you're in Hell, you throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. Lacking any formal prayer training, he just started shouting out random phrases like "Our Father who art in Heaven" and "One nation under God."

It worked.

Dr. George Ritchie

Dr. George Ritchie's trip to Hell started in a place where a lot of us would also probably dread spending an eternity: Richmond, Virginia.

After dying of pneumonia in 1943 during World War II, he awoke in what appeared to be a hospital room. He looked around and noticed that all of his stuff was missing, but before he had time to get upset about that, he noticed something else: There was someone lying in his bed.

He found that odd, seeing as how he'd just gotten out of that bed, but rather than stopping to contemplate what was going on, he decided to leave. He stepped out into the hospital hallway and headed through a set of metal doors that led outside. It was then that he decided he needed to get to the aforementioned Richmond, and he decided to do it in the most practical way possible. He was going to run there.

He found that odd, seeing as how he'd just gotten out of that bed, but rather than stopping to contemplate what was going on, he decided to leave. He stepped out into the hospital hallway and headed through a set of metal doors that led outside. It was then that he decided he needed to get to the aforementioned Richmond, and he decided to do it in the most practical way possible. He was going to run there.

Desperate to figure out what was happening, he made his way back to his hospital room, presumably using the same kind of travel magic that allowed Jack Bauer to get anywhere in Los Angeles in 15 minutes or less on the pro-torture television classic 24. In no time at all, he was back in his room, standing next to his lifeless form. And that's when he met Jesus.

Meeting Jesus upfront is rare in these situations, it seems, but things took a standard turn from there when he was subjected to the same life review that so many other people who go through near-death experiences talk about.

Things got far stranger after that. Rather than being banished straight to Hell, Ritchie was taken on a guided tour of various afterlife locations. The first looked a lot like Earth. In fact, it was inhabited by both living and dead beings. The living were surrounded by a sort of light or aura, the dead were not.

Meeting Jesus upfront is rare in these situations, it seems, but things took a standard turn from there when he was subjected to the same life review that so many other people who go through near-death experiences talk about.

Things got far stranger after that. Rather than being banished straight to Hell, Ritchie was taken on a guided tour of various afterlife locations. The first looked a lot like Earth. In fact, it was inhabited by both living and dead beings. The living were surrounded by a sort of light or aura, the dead were not.

Selected Passages: Adam Tod Brown  https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-people-who-died-went-to-hell-then-came-back/

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