NDE's

[Edited by admins to a reasonably-sized extract, and to provide sources. For the full version, click on one of the links]

An additional short interview with Christine Stein and the opinion of a sceptical doctor, Frank Erbguth to give some balance towards the sceptical approach to explaining NDE's.

Near-death experience: In heaven you don't need shoes
By Elisa de Oliveira Brinkhoff

Original German version
English version via Google Translate

Christine Stein's heart stopped for twenty-three minutes. To save her, the surgeons manually massaged her heart through her open chest. "Hurry up, we have to save this little girl !" they shout.  During the resuscitation, Christine watches it from above.

Three weeks earlier: on March 24, 2000, the then 19-year-old Christine Stein was driving her car on a country road near Laubach. A truck going 30 km / h too fast, crashes into the driver's side of her car and pushes her off the road into a ditch, then the truck falls on the car itself. Severely injured, she is taken to hospital by a rescue helicopter. Her injuries include a tear in her lungs, spleen and in the main artery - which is life-threatening.
 
The doctors make the impossible, possible: Christine survives, despite three emergency operations and a great loss of blood. In the first operation immediately after the accident, they cut open her ribcage, remove her spleen, cut off a piece of the left lung and close the main artery with a kind of "patch."  But this "patch" is not permanent and in a second emergency operation, it must be renewed.

Christine is allowed to return home three weeks later, but shortly afterwards the main artery ruptures again.  Her stomach fills with blood: "It looked like I was nine months pregnant," she says. Only with the help of a friend's first aid, did she survive to get to the hospital, but during the operation, when her chest is cut open (again), her heart stops beating again.