The following written confession was submitted via email in response to Episode 485: Death To Life (Members): I really loved that episode because I had a near death experience when I was 17 however mine differed from hers. I actually saw Jesus…

By definition, a near death experience is “an unusual experience taking place on the brink of death and recounted by a person after recovery, typically an out-of-body experience or a vision of a tunnel of light.” Though fundamentally correct, the textbook definition of NDEs fails to capture the mystery, transcendence, and often supernatural nature of these episodes, which have been well-documented but still remain ambiguous in the wide scope of science.