During an NDE, are people told “It’s not your time” only when it seems that the doctors or EMTs won’t give up on the CPR?
A common theme in near-death experiences is that the individual is told, “It’s not your time; you must go back,” by either a deceased loved-one, spirits, angels or even God. It’s usually a deceased loved-one who makes this announcement.
Suppose Arista goes into cardiac arrest due to anaphylactic shock from the contrast dye that was injected into her for her MRA scan.
A crash cart is nearby and medical staff immediately begin resuscitation attempts. Arista has been down (clinically dead, heart stopped) for over 30 seconds.
She encounters her deceased grandmother in a brilliantly colored valley of incredible peace and joy. “It is not your time; you must go back.”
Somehow, Granny knows that the doctors are working furiously on getting Arista’s heart restarted and are willing to keep up their efforts for as long as it takes.
Arista decides to “go back,” and suddenly, the doctor sees a heartbeat. It’s as though the deceased loved-one knew this would happen. But what if Arista had decided, “No, I want to cross over”?
And she steps across the bridge. Would the doctors then suddenly say, “I give up, let’s call time of death”? (After all, this would match up with what happens to Arista during the NDE when she crosses the bridge.
Of course, it may also turn out that the doctors keep trying resuscitation for 40 minutes and then give up.)
Do you see what I’m getting at here?
Somehow, the deceased grannies, grandpas, parents, spouses, uncles and aunts know the difference between a woman whose heart stopped inside a hospital and one whose heart stopped at the hands of a violent boyfriend who strangled her in the woods.
Well, you know he’s not going to attempt CPR, so when that woman meets up with her deceased grandma—there won’t be any “It’s not your time; you must go back.”
My question is: Suppose in Arista’s case, she decides to go back…and just as she’s being flung backwards through the tunnel, towards her body…the doctor suddenly gives up hope and says, “Enough already; she’s gone; let’s call time of death”?
Will Arista suddenly find herself being yanked back through the tunnel towards Nana?
“That is a good question about the interplay of the choice of NDERs to return and the choice of those attempting to resuscitate them to either continue resuscitation or stop it,” says Jeffrey Long, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller, “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.” Dr. Long is a radiation oncologist in Houma, Louisiana.
Or, to put my question another way, suppose the doctors won’t give up the resuscitation attempts, and Arista, having decided to “go back,” is flying backwards through the tunnel, watching her grandmother’s form become smaller and smaller in the increasing distance.
Then suddenly…a gunman bursts into the room and shoots the doctors dead. Will Arista be yanked back to her grandmother?
Or will this yanking never occur because Nana already knew that the gunman would burst in and shoot everyone dead, and thus would have told Arista, “Welcome! Come with me to eternity!”?
Dr. Long continues, “My answer must be speculative, but my best guess is that the wise spiritual beings on the other side have the good sense of whether resuscitation will be continued or not.
“We have many NDERs were told, “It’s not your time,” were not being actively resuscitated by a medical team, or anyone else.
“Many NDERs who are aware that ‘It’s not your time’ have no other people around them.”
Wow. Does the spirit world know the future?
Why is there even a need for the spirit world to say, “It’s not your time?” if the future is already determined? Or isn’t it?
So it looks as though often, a person whose life-threatening situation is fuzzy (such as drowning in the presence of other people who can give CPR) gets to choose to “go back,” while someone whose life-threatening situation is more defined, such as having a massive heart attack when nobody is around — doesn’t get to choose — though there are cases like this in which the person came back from an NDE.
But let’s go a step further: The person is crushed beneath a car. We know that in that case, there will be no “It’s not your time.”
A compelling question is why are NDE’ers being told, “It’s not your time; you must go back,” if ultimately, God controls destiny? If the NDE’er controls it, then why does Gramps appear to tell him, “It’s not your time”?
What kind of NDEs did people who went into cardiac arrest 200 years ago have?
I’m talking people who had conditions that could have been remedied by CPR, but because CPR wasn’t around back then…these people certainly had a much different NDE—more like an ADE: actual death experience.
So it seems as though, to some extent, the choice to “go back” or not hinges on the presence of people who know CPR.
As a leading NDE researcher and a medical doctor, Dr. Long has appeared on national media including NBC Today, ABC with Peter Jennings, the Dr. Oz Show, the History Channel, the Learning Channel and National Geographic.
Lorra Garrick has been covering medical, fitness and cybersecurity topics for many years, having written thousands of articles for print magazines and websites, including as a ghostwriter. She’s also a former ACE-certified personal trainer.
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