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Doctor Who 'Died' For 30 Minutes After Horrific Accident Describes Death Experience

Doctor Who 'Died' For 30 Minutes After Horrific Accident Describes Death Experience

She was submerged for almost half an hour in a kayaking accident

Amelia Ward

Amelia Ward

A doctor who almost died relived the moment she believed she was led 'towards the heavens' by spirits in a new Netflix series. Watch the trailer:

Surviving Death looks at the survivors of near-death experiences, looking into what happens to people when they 'die' for a short time, before being brought back to life. There are also episodes on reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.

Dr Mary Neal, from New York, spoke about when she was trapped underwater for almost half an hour during a 1999 kayak accident in Chile.

Neal, now 62, was pinned underneath her kayak and submerged for 24 minutes, her brain starved of oxygen for the whole time.

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The mum-of-four told The Sun: "I was not breathing. My torso was absolutely plastered to the front deck of the boat and I could feel my bones breaking.

"I thought, 'I should be screaming' but I wasn't. I felt no pain, no fear, no panic. I felt more alive than I've ever felt.

"I could feel my spirit peeling away from my body, and my spirit went up towards the heavens. I was immediately greeted by a group of... somethings. I don't know what to call them. People? Spirits? Beings?

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"I didn't recognise any of them, but they had been important in my life somehow, like a grandparent who died before I was born.

"They were so overjoyed to welcome me and greet me and love me."

She said the 'beings' led her down a path covered with hundreds of thousands of flowers, which were 'every colour of the universe'.

Neal described the experience as a 'shift in time and dimension'.

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She said: "I experienced all of eternity in every second and every second expanded into all of eternity.

"The pathway went to this great dome structure and I believe I was in heaven. I had an overwhelming sense of being home."

Her group spent 15 minutes trying to rescue her before switching into 'body recovery mode'.

She explained: "One of the guys saw my life jacket pop up downstream and thought that maybe my husband would want it.

"As he got that he felt my body touch his leg and was able to reach under the water and grab my wrist.

Miraculously, Neal didn't suffer any long term damage to her brain.
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"My body was bloated and purple and I had fixed eyes. There's no doubt in my own mind that I was physically dead, but I watched from the entrance to the dome structure as they started CPR and I could still hear them."

She remembers seeing the kayakers try to save her.

She added: "I had been without oxygen for 30 minutes and the statistical likelihood of my survival should have been zero

"I did not want to go back down to my body. I had a very physical sensation of being held and comforted and reassured that everything was fine, but the beings told me that it wasn't my time, that I had more work to do on Earth and that I had to go back to my body.

"When I opened my eyes the guys who resuscitated me were stunned."

Surviving Death is available to stream now on Netflix.

Featured Image Credit: Netflix

Topics: TV and Film, Netflix