Life After Death – The Weird Side of the Internet

Life After Death – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

One time I had surgery. One time. And it was mouth surgery, and since I have a big mouth, they decided to chemically shut it. And I’ll never forget waking up. Because you don’t really wake up from anesthesia. You just sort of “come on line.” You just kind of slowly realize that you exist again. It’s even a surprise to you. But that’s if everything was uneventful. But if you flatline? What about the super-long-acting anesthesia, the sweet water injections of the river Styx. The big sleep.

Out-of-body experiences cross generations and geography and culture, and we’re a culture that’s separated the reality of illness and death from being just ordinary. Sick ends up in a hospital; dead goes on a slab downstairs. But in between those two places you might not remain in your body. And I can’t believe it’s just a trick of the mind when people are recalling the surgeon’s watch behind a screen. I’m a man of science, but not a prisoner of it. And if you’re coming to me about the afterlife, you should use a different GPS,

So near death experiences are the tunnel, the light, your family, peace and love… and then you’re back a changed person, secure in the fact that you know what’s in store for you.

But you do know some people go to hell, right?

If you want to learn what it’s like to get sent to hell, you have to start on Reddit, which is hell’s version of the Vatican. One person reported hell, actual hell. Torment, damnations, custom leather, all of it. And another person, the unnamed person that gort me to write this, felt themselves burning as they were being squeezed back into their bodies, like a million fire ants.

You never hear these accounts, but honestly, would you want to?

 

 

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