I died for 11 minutes, went through hell and heaven and that's why I came back
2024-10-17 11:56:33
TiranaPost
A woman from Kansas recently shared her harrowing story about the 11-minute death she experienced.
Charlotte Holmes - a 68-year-old great-grandmother - said her journey to the afterlife began during a routine heart checkup with her cardiologist. It was September 2019.
As her blood pressure rose to 234, doctors told her, 'You're either going to have another stroke, or you're going to have a heart attack,' she recalled.
What followed was a trip to 'Heaven' and a tour of the 'edge of Hell' led by God himself as a lesson, according to Holmes, that she was asked to impart to the living.
Holmes and her husband Danny said doctors pronounced her clinically dead after her heart stopped for nearly twice the full time (five minutes) routinely used by medical professionals to assess death.
Danny tells how he watched the doctors move to save him as the traumatic event unfolded.
He wondered if he would be able to bring the woman home again.
Danny is actually the best witness of the entire story, as he corroborates the supernatural story that happened to his wife, recounting the shocking moment he heard her describe otherworldly things that were not physically in the room, but that she was witnessing them in real time.
"At this moment I realized that she was not in this world. It was in the other world," he says.
And Holmes explained that her journey began as an 'out of body experience' before being guided by angels to Heaven.
'I was over my body,' she said.
“I could see them giving the electric shocks to the chest. I could see them, all the nurses around. I could smell the most beautiful flowers I have ever smelled. And then I heard music. When I opened my eyes, I knew where I was. I knew I was in Heaven", she says as we have seen in the movies.
Holmes described her journey to Heaven as something not scary, but offering only joy.
"I saw my mother. I saw my father. I saw my sister. I saw family members standing behind. I saw saints of old. They didn't look old. They didn't look sick. None of them wore glasses. Behind my mother and father I saw something very bright. I couldn't see him because of the brightness, but I knew he was my God", she confesses.
After being briefly reunited with the baby she lost when she was five months pregnant, Holmes recalled that God then led her down a darker but more nurturing path.
"God took me to the edge of Hell. I looked down and the smell was of rotting flesh. I shouted. After the splendor of Heaven, the visit to Hell was unbearable. At this moment I heard God tell me: You have time to come back and share it with others".
Many studies have been conducted regarding this condition, i.e. between life and death.
Last year, medical researchers with the University Hospital of Liège in Belgium followed 19 people after they had a near-death experience in an intensive care unit (ICU), following them 12 months later.
The researchers, who published their findings in the journal Critical Care, found that patients who had a near-death experience experienced a greater tendency for dissociative symptoms in the days following their suffering.
These included feeling detached from themselves, feeling little or no pain, feeling unsure of who they were, and increased spiritual and personal well-being.
