I have life threatening asthma. I'd go into the hospital on many occassions and wonder if I'd come out alive.

When my boys were about 3 and 4 years old, I was hospitalized with a very bad attack. After hours of pain, trying to breathe with many nurses and doctors hovering over my bed (about 25 yrs ago), my life went into a fog. The pain was gone.

In my brain, I felt (I didn't hear a voice like I'd experienced in the past and recently) something alliviating my fears by my feeling (no voice) that this life on earth was so temporary that it was insignifigant in the big scheme of things. I felt I didn't have to worry about my children. I didn't have to worry about anything. Everything would be fine. I'd see everyone again and maintain relationships. I felt that I wasn't to be sad. I felt fine as I was drifting with the fog.

Then I regained conciousness. The pain in my chest was overwhelming. I was back. I still do not want to die and for many years I didn't fear death but so much time has passed that I've forgotten the security I felt in the fog. What scares me is that I didn't see family that had passed over, nor did I see the tunnel or the LIGHT.

It made me wonder if I was going to hell..

I was so sick about 10 yrs ago that the rescue people had incubated me and couldn't take me down the stairs of my home for fear the tube would puncture my esophagus. Oh, I was completely gone at this point and the firemen took me out of a second story window to keep me flat. I remember everything going BLACK and nothing else. I came out of a coma about 4 days later. Since I didn't see anything after the darkness, it scares me, too.

I don't want to spend eternity in hell or limbo.

Why didn't I see the light or family to welcome me to heaven?

Bud if I am going to hell most of the planet is going with me. Your experience has really caught my eye. I have been a type one diabetic for 14 years. Just a few years back I felt myself going into hypogycemic(low sugar) shock. I never ate anything which means that I should have died due to going into a diabetic coma but that is another story. Just before I came too I felt total bliss. I only remember seeing pitch dark as there was no light, but the feelings. I felt pure bliss. As someone who had been fighting with my faith of god for awhile what I said (thought) next astounds me. "Is that you God?" came across my mind as this blissful feeling soon became reality. The reality is that I woke up in a pool of sweat and blood in absolute pain. I had bitten a gash in my tongue and scrapped my head on the carpet giving myself carpet burns across my face. I was drifting myself during this coma. I would not describe it as a fog, but my feelings during those few seconds was also that everything was going to be alright. Thanks for posting your experience. I am starting to find this very interesting.

I wish I'd thought to ask, "Is that you God?".

I'd see everyone again and maintain relationships I don't believe I wholeheartedly felt this. I think I've added it over the years as my memories have faded. I do know that I felt very safe and there was no fear at all. I believe I assumed that I'd maintain the relationships that I had during this life. My greatest terror was leaving my children and I was 'told' by feelings that this was such a bitty bit of time that the pain they'd suffer really wouldn't affect them because everyone would understand 'everything' when they passed on to the real eternity.

I'm glad to read about someone else who didn't have Angels singing and a hoard of relatives there to escort them to Heaven. It has really bothered me. I don't beleive I've been an evil person although there are many commandments that I've broken.

Since I didn't see the Angels etc, I researched the information on aliens having created us. I do believe God but but but.... I shouldn't have any 'buts'.

I've nearly drowned twice in one summer. The first time, I distinctly remember a bright white glitter on the water. It was really overcast that day, too, and it was far brighter than that.

A black hole has a "Event" Horizon n so do u. U never crossed that boundary. Someday, I will know your feeling.

You will NOT spend eternity in Hell or Limbo. Those are inventions of the imagination of Mankind, intended to scare people into following the religious line. When you "change frequency," change state, or just "die" you may or may not see a tunnel with the light at the end of it. Some people simply find themselves on the other side and feel truly happy in a wonderful new world without and all the oain and heartache and in the company of loved ones and friends who went over before you. The fact that you did not see a tunnel and the light merely indicates that you were not so close to death as you thought you were. Do not let your pleasant memory of the the alleviation of pain and the feeling that everything would be all right, fade with time. That memory came from your closest approach to "passing over" and you must not forget that death is not to be feared. Do not be frightened by that blackness you experienced with no recollection of anything. That was a normal Earth condition from which you recovered. I have had that experience, too. It just was not time for you to die. That feeling of bliss will return to you when it IS your time and I hope that will be a long time in the future. If you are religious, remember that your God is a loving and forgiving God, not a spiteful one. How could a forgiving God condemn a soul to eternal suffering in some fiery Hell for all eternity? Hell is not an invention of the Devil but of the Church. Never fear. Everything WILL be all right. You KNOW that because you were told so, personally.

Ennui - I know a woman with a similar asthma problem. A couple of months ago she had an attack that landed her in the ICU on a resperator. She's nearly died. She did report seeing the "tunnel" with a light at the end.

I had a NDE when I was 10 years old -- I was shot thru the stomach in a hunting accident -- I did not see angels or anything like that either, but I did go through a tunnel -- it was filled with stars -- and have all kinds of other very wild experiences, that were not so much positive or negative, but intelectually interesting.

If I were you, ennui, I would not expect to see this or that -- there is nothing that says or any rule that says your supposed to see a happy light and angels and passed on loved ones -- nor should you worry about a mythical hell -- all this is mostly propaganda.

I realize that thousands of people have reported the same experience with light tunnels and angels, and stuff, but there are other explanation for how al lthis happens.

The big thing is -- don't worry about it. And keep an open mind and always question the "common knowledge" -- my own NDE made me conclude that death is not what everyone says it is -- not at all -- it's something quite different ... and is neither good nor bad -- but something "else"

Thank you everyone. Your posts gave me a warm feeling as I remember how wonderful I felt when I was in that condition. I wonder what people think of if they have never heard of religon. Has there ever been a people who didn't believe in some type of god, or a superior being?

BogCreeper used the word "bliss" and that is the perfect word.

Primordial - Yes, the 'event horizen'. Antoher great explanation.

Blind Atrocity - Did you have a feeling of calm? Were you still fighting to get to shore? Did you regain strength?

Lonecat - Discussing this has brought back my memories. I try not to worry because although I don't want to leave, I know the other side of whatever will be peace and knowledge.

IronGhost - You must have gone much farther than I did. I felt I was given a choice. No words. I just felt it and the next thing I knew my chest was in crushing pain again.

MasterPo - I had always heard about the tunnel, Angels and family. No one lives the sames life so why should everyone fee the same at death?

8 years ago [almost to the day] is was hospitalised and in a coma with meningococcal C. I don't remember much apart from being in a street that was sparkling clean, with trees and sunshine that was really bright [like, brighter than bright] It was really warm, and peaceful, nobody was there, just me and these paved brick roads. I did, however, hear my grandma's voice who'd died a few months earlier, telling me to 'go back'. I don't believe in god, or of there being some higher force either

Still remember it vividly to this day

And i agree, we don't experience life in the same way, so why should we experience death in the same way?

EDIT: To add the bit about god