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A man who was declared clinically dead for three minutes has claimed he “saw what hell is like”. It wasn’t what he expected.
The man died and came back to life while on a stretcher in an ambulance en route to the hospital after he overdosed on drugs. After dying and seeing what he believed was hell he survived and ended up making a full recovery.
“A friend of mine had a overdose caused a stroke and legally died for a little under three minutes in the ambulance on the way to the hospital,” the man’s friend recalled. “He remembers the stroke, and being wheeled to the ambulance on a stretcher.
“Then he felt like he was floating under ice cold water, and it was dark, but he wasn’t really thinking or feeling anything emotionally, just existing and knowing it was very very cold and he couldn’t see. Then he woke up, and the EMTs were kinda freaked out because his heart had stopped long enough that they figured he was done.
“At some point in the following days he became convinced that what he experienced was hell minus the knowledge of suffering, like a toned-down preview, and thought it was a warning for him to change his life. Sadly he didn’t stay clean for long.”
Several people commented on the story which was shared on Reddit and revealed their own tales, many of them rather disturbing, of people coming back from the dead. Not all of them saw hell, but they did see a lot of strange things.
“Working in a hospital and taking care of people who have been legally dead and have come back either on their own accord or with CPR, I’ve heard these people say that they felt like they were falling,” one person commented. “They also wake up really confused not remembering the situation. To me it seems like what they experience is close to a dream that you’re falling and wake up with a jolt.”
“Total darkness,” someone else, who experienced coming back from the dead, wrote. “Like going to sleep with no dreams. Until you are brought back, then searing pain kicks in. I guess its bc the body goes out of shock, and you feel everything. That’s what it felt like to me.”
“After scanning the comments, I can confirm the feeling of falling and jolting and that is EXTREMELY painful to come back — it is as if every cell in your body was sliced open and then shoved back together,” another person agreed.