The Near-Death Experiences cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
The doctors call what happened to me a resuscitation. My grandmother calls it a resurrection. I have stopped arguing with either of them, be…
172 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story
The light was green. I want that on the record, because the first thing everyone asks is whether I ran it. It was green, and I was singing a…
161 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
My daughter was two minutes old when I began to die. Nobody in that room knew it yet, including me. I only knew a great tiredness, a warmth …
156 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
It was supposed to be nothing. Gallbladder, keyhole surgery, home by dinner, that is what they told me. My daughter was going to pick me up.…
149 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story
I was the healthy one. That is the joke of it. Forty-two, ran most mornings, ate the right things, the guy who nagged his friends about thei…
143 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
I was forty-six and rinsing a coffee mug when my chest folded in on itself. That is the only way I can say it. Not a stab, not the movie clu…
132 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story
The worst hour in a hospital is three in the morning. Everything is dimmed and beeping and half the world is asleep and the other half is wa…
127 Upvote · 71% of readers believe this story
I have been an electrician for twenty years and I will tell you the truth that we do not say to homeowners: the ones who die are usually the…
121 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
People who have never drowned think it looks like the movies, all splashing and shouting. It does not. Drowning is quiet. I know because I d…
118 Upvote · 71% of readers believe this story
I had been stung by bees before. Two, three times over the years, a swollen thumb, nothing more. So when one caught me on the neck while I w…
98 Upvote · 72% of readers believe this story
