NDEs

I found this site of people who have died and came back to tell about their experience. Here is one short example

" I was watching the paramedics perform CPR on me when my glowing companion suggested I might like to go back. I asked her where I would be going back to. With that, two other beings arrived, my grandmothers, one I had never met and one who passed into spirit only 18 months previously. I knew instinctively that I would be safe whatever choice I made. I was surrounded by love. I was encompassed by warmth and a sense of belonging I've never experienced since." Leonie, age 5.

other stories at www.nderf.org/NDERF_NDEs.htm

I was wondering what you all thought of experiences like this that people tell and whether or not you thought they were valid? Does it increase your faith or make no difference to you that so many have these types of experiences?

I've had only one such experience about two decades ago, although it's unclear how close I was to death. I lost consciousness at the health club and banged my head on the floor. What people saw was somebody who moved like a half crushed beetle in a puddle of blood. What I felt was the way I feel on a Saturday morning after a long, peaceful sleep-- a feeling of deep, soft comfort and well-being. I'm sure there were neurological and physiological defense processes at work. Nevertheless, this strange episode left me with a fearlessness of death as well as a hightened awareness of the now.