Most near-death experiences are heavenly -- focused on the beauty of eternity, the Light that will encompass us. These are far and away the majority. Those who have had them lose their fear of death (though, knowing now that they have a mission in life, they are in no hurry to pass on). The Love of God overwhelms them.
But there are some more sobering accounts, and one comes to us from a former atheist and astute observer named Dr. Theodore M. Homa, a 66-year-old medical doctor in the Chicago area who had his brush with eternity after lapsing into a coma while awaiting a heart transplant. It was in 2008, and his condition became so dire that while he was waiting for the transplant he needed a mechanical heart. Even that became a problem. As his daughter Priscilla proficiently explains:
"The summer he crashed he was in a coma and on a ventilator for a week. He had a fever of 103 degrees. The doctors needed his fever to break. They told my mother that they could not give him the artificial heart unless his fever broke. It seemed hopeless.
"However, we had prayer and a great and special priest friend who drove from a great distance to come and pray at his bedside. This was a great comfort to the family. After three days of the priest praying and offering Mass, my father's fever broke in the middle of the night. The doctors told my mother she had to sign papers for him to receive an artificial heart. However, my father had already become gray and bruised from loss of circulation and the beginning of death that evening. The doctor told my mother he felt this surgery would have to begin immediately and that the chances were very, very slim. His exact words were, 'I am climbing Mount Everest backward.' My mother and the priest held the pen together and signed the papers. Their fear was that he would only suffer more and not have a brain after the artificial heart. He had no pulse as they wheeled him down the hall to begin surgery. His story begins here."
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