Moira Drury
I was suddenly no longer in the hospital, but somewhere much further away, in a large white room with people I knew, though I can't recall who they were.
Near Death Experience
Moira Drury, a former nursing sister, came close to death when she was
the victim of an attack with a seven-pound hammer.
The attack left her with a depressed fracture of the skull, plus other
fractures and bruises. 'I lost half my brain,' said Mrs Drury, 'and when I
was taken into casualty at the hospital, nobody thought I would live.'
She found herself out of her body, looking down on the doctors and nurses
trying to save her. 'The consultant said: "Leave it. If she lives, she'll
only be a vegetable." Then they drew the sheet over my face as a mark of
respect.
'An hour or so afterwards, I was told later, a young student nurse came to
collect me, but noticed that I was still breathing and whipped me into one
of the wards.
'I was suddenly no longer in the hospital, but somewhere much further away,
in a large white room with people I knew, though I can't recall who they
were. There were about eight of them and they wanted me to stop fighting and
stay. However, I was desperate to get back.
'This was 11 years ago, my three children were still very small, and I
wondered who would look after them. These people told me I could do
everything from up there.
'One man did most of the talking. All I can remember of his face was his
clear, bright eyes. I was warned of the disabilities I'd have to overcome,
but they all assured me they would give me support. It sounds as if I was
arguing with them, whereas we were talking very peacefully.
'I was telling them all the naughty things I had done - the fibs I'd told.
But they said those things weren't really naughty. They also reminded me of
the good things I'd done.
'When I regained consciousness four days later, I knew exactly what had
happened. I'm still partly paralysed down my right side.
'But I've also gained far more from that experience than I lost. Before, I
was lousy in my judgment of people. Now I'm invariably spot-on. And I'm not
the least bit afraid of dying.'
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Personal Near Death Experiences
One most extraordinary aspect of NDE's is that the underlying pattern seems unaffected by a person's culture or belief system, religion, race, education, or any other known variable, although the way in which the NDE is described varies according to the person's background and vocabulary. There is no evidence that the type of experience is related to whether the person is conventionally religious or not, or has lived a "good" or "bad" life according to his/her society's standards (although an NDE often strongly affects how life is lived after the experience).
