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Atwater, P. M. H. The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences. Rainbow Ridge Books, Chapter 10, Chris Brown, Pages 146-148, 2007
Chapter 10, Chris Brown, Pages 146-148, 2007
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In 1962, young soldier Chris Brown suffered a severe angina attack while stationed in France, causing his heart to race and chest to burn before he collapsed. Rushed to a medical facility, he found himself in what appeared to be an emergency room, connected to two machines: an EKG and another device with wires around his head, likely an EEG. From his out-of-body vantage point near the ceiling, he witnessed the exact moment of his clinical death as the EKG's scope trace went flat and emitted that unmistakable steady beep. He watched the doctor frantically working on his heart while a nurse wrung her hands, feeling detached yet concerned about the trouble he was causing. The most remarkable part was witnessing a critical medical error unfold: he observed the nurse go to an old-fashioned French medicine cabinet with a curved front, remove a hypo, and fill it from a small bottle taken from the left side of the second shelf. He then watched the doctor's horrified realization, seeing him grab the bottle, read it, and erupt in anger, throwing both bottle and hypo across the room, knocking the nurse down while screaming she could have killed him, before racing to get the correct medication himself. His experience then shifted to meeting a group of grayish, cloudy men who informed him the decision to return wasn't his alone. He underwent a deliberate life review, assessing his debts and responsibilities, concluding his affairs were in order and wanting to stay, but was told he must return to complete a job and to learn. With the command "Now go!" he later awoke in the ICU. Two days after the incident, the doctor, after being assured of confidentiality, listened to Chris's entire account and cross-examined him extensively until completely satisfied that the young soldier had indeed witnessed what was seemingly physically impossible for him to have seen, providing the highest level of verification for this extraordinary veridical perception during clinical death.
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Clinically dead from cardiac arrest in medical facility with EKG flatline confirmation
Extremely detailed sequential observation of medical error impossible to perceive normally
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