Preparation of Journey to Heaven

From: Andy Webster (Witchita44@Sky.Com)
Story type: Near Death Experience
Location: Leicester Hospital
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Tue Jul  5 12:00:54 2011

Having lost my faith many years ago, not for the first time i attempted suicide by taking my mother's tablets (about 80 pills). for the following 36 hours i recall nothing of reality: going to hospital, treatment, nurses care, eating and drinking,visitors. though my body was there, my mind was elsewhere. i recall being told i was on ward 7. however, i recalled that ward 7 was closed due to a fire destroying most of that ward a week earlier.

i was in a hospital bay with 5 other patients. however, it was eerily quiet; no sounds from outside - traffic noise, voices, birdsong. over the next few hours i began to realize that something wasn't quite right and began to understand where i was - in the preparation area before being sent through the tunnel to heaven or hell. i observed nursing staff (angels) attending other patients by saying they needed to be turned, changed, blood taken etc.curtains would be drawn, the bed would mechanically lift, and an amazing bright light would glow from behind the curtains and water would be spilled onto the floor. i heard the angels in conversation- talking about 2 difficult patients in beds 2 and 5 (myself and a chinese man). clearly, our spirits wanted to go to heaven, but our earthly bodies wished to stay on earth, a conflict between the two.

i noted the chinese man's two sons regularly by his bedside (discovering later, that he only had one son who visited). when it was my turn to go, i crossed the room and consoled him - telling him not to be afraid. as 2 nurses came to push my bed out of the bay, i closed my eyes, telling myself not to open them until i saw the bright light. however, as i felt myself travelling, i took a quick peek, finding myself moving along a dark tunnel. i opened my eyes again when i felt a bright light and found myself in another hospital bay. i felt the breeze on my face and heard the familiar sounds from outside. i knew that i'd died for a time, but it was not yet my time to go to heaven; i'd seen the afterlife and knew that god existed, and thereby re-kindling my faith.

the hospital tried to make out that it was the chemical reaction of the pills on my brain that caused these hallucinations. however, the fact that i cannot recall one moment of life during those 36 hours,and that something inside of me is telling me that my experiences were real, convinces me of my near-death encounter. i have joined a christian church in an effort to get closer to god, and am also helping others who have lost their faith and are treading the wrong path. if anyone wishes to speak to me of these things,i would only be too willing to correspond.

from, andy