A 16-year-old boy dies from un explained cardiac arrest. He’s dead for nearly 25 minutes . . . before he’s brought back to life.
A woman and her best friend die in a car crash. Only one of them is given the option of being brought back to life — by a being who is not human.
A man riding his motorcycle gets into a massive accident with a truck and dies. Reluctantly, he comes back to life.
All of these stories are real, all are true and documented — at least medically — and all are detailed by the formerly dead people themselves in a new, riveting six-episode series, “I Survived . . . Beyond and Back.”
Relying on the testimony of these folks, rather than cheesy reenactments, the show centers on the stories of what each person experienced while he or she was clinically and most definitely dead. We meet the people who worked on them, as well as family members who lived through their deaths.
Now a college student, Michael — who “died” at 16 — began feeling overwhelmingly tired. This was followed by tremendous energy.
“Then I saw — from above — this dead kid,” he says.
Michael says he met his grandmother on the other side. “I saw this beautiful young woman and I just knew it was my gramma. She [had been] my best friend. She took my hand and showed me highlights of my life — opening presents with such joyfulness and eagerness.” Then she told him that he’d have to go back. Which he did — nearly a half-hour after he died.
Julie, a social worker from New York, died in a car crash with her best friend Robin. She says, “A presence was sharing with us that we were going somewhere beautiful, but one of us was going to have to come back down — but it would be tremendously painful. Then, we were catapulted — and everything changed.” She watched as Robin became blissfully happy and slipped away. The next thing she remembers is waking up in excruciating pain.
After he died in a motorcycle accident, Chuck met his mother and grandmother on the other side. “I saw [them] 40 or 50 feet in front of me. They looked young and gorgeous, dressed in black with their pearl necklaces. I ran as fast as I could just to feel that hug.”
He says he argued and pouted like a child when they wouldn’t let him stay.
“Today, when I hear about people dying, I say, ‘You lucky bastard! You’re going home!’ ” he says.
I’ve still got the chills. Don’t miss it!