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Woman On ‘Crossing Over’ During Cardiac Arrest: I’m No Longer Afraid Of Death | Megyn Kelly TODAY - YouTube
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before we have the news of aretha
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franklin's passing we had planned this
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show on what happens after we die and as
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we mourn the Queen of Soul it seems a
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particularly good time to ask is there
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something more something on the other
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side Today Show tries to answer those
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questions my first guest
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sherry ma was rushed to the hospital
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after weeks of feeling short of breath
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just 10 minutes after she arrived she
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flatlined in her husband's arms sherry
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was dead
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for 90 minutes but miraculously came
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back to life and now has a profound
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near-death experience to share watch in
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early 2008 sherry ma was living life to
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the fullest I really was living a really
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wonderful life in my 20s making good
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money experiencing freedom and really
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feeling on top of the world
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Sherry's good life came to a halt later
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that year when she was diagnosed with
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Hodgkin's lymphoma he waited till the
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door was closed we both sat down and I
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knew like something was up and that's
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when he looked at me and he said you
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have cancer she immediately underwent
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for intensive rounds of chemotherapy
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crippling her body and there's no words
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to describe what that chemotherapy
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treatment was like it was so extreme I
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would not wish her side of that Sun
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anybody after battling the disease for
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three months her cancer went into
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remission and she was declared
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cancer-free it's an incredible feeling
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to go in for those tests and realize
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they're saying it's shrinking
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but in April of 2010 sherry suffered
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another setback
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cardiac arrest the doctors were rushed
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and they immediately performed CPR
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within the first five 10 minutes they
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were unsuccessful and were ready to call
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my time of death one doctor ordered CPR
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to continue he just turned into a drill
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sergeant and he told everybody what to
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do they did chest compressions for over
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90 minutes still without success she was
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put on life support then rushed to New
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York Presbyterian Columbia hospital and
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underwent open-heart surgery I knew I
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was somewhere else I knew I had died I
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would say instantaneously when I
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flatlined
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I immediately crossed over into this
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other realm and I remember my body just
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floating in like this white space and I
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felt as light as a feather I felt free
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sherry joins us now sherry thank you so
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much for being here thank you for having
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me
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let's go to that moment in the hospital
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where you were flatlining and they you
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know they say that that's the moment you
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you are dead if your heart is not
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working if your heart is not pumping is
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it true that they wanted we could stop
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CPR and there was the one doctor who
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said mmhmm yeah they were ready to call
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my time of death everybody in that stuff
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in that room in the emergency room they
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were ready to call my time of death one
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man in that entire room said no we're
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not losing her and ordered everybody
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like a drill sergeant according to my
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father to continue with CPR and what
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they had to do was continue it long
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enough for him to actually install
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temporary life-support what is the first
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memory you have of you know your
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otherworldly experience yeah it was
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pretty instantaneous for me I remember
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one minute being in in this world and
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the next minute being like I died I knew
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immediately I was in this white space
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where I felt like I was formless and I
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felt light as a feather I felt free and
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I remember feeling really free of the
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burdens of everyday life there was there
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a feeling of panic at all you know like
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I've I've died oh my god I've died it
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was more wow this is so beautiful
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really yeah you remember that absolutely
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and we're like was it one of those
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things where you were above the room
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like where were you seeing it wasn't
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like an out-of-body experience I
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literally was in a whole other realm so
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I wasn't I was no longer in the physical
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hospital room I was completely in
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another realm I actually felt connected
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to my family on the other side
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and I felt connected to the heavens so
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there was no distinction of okay I'm I'm
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dead and I'm in this other world it was
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more I just gracefully walked through
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this door and made this beautiful
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transition into another realm so there's
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much more to her experience and what
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happened in those moments including an
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illumination on the life she had lived
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thus far we're gonna pick it up there
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when we come back back now sherry a man
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who says she had a life-changing
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near-death experience during cardiac
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arrest when she was dead for 90 minutes
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so sherry I I I know you've said that in
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the moment it felt like you did a life
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review what does that mean yeah it's
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it's funny because it actually wasn't
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just a life review of my current life it
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was actually a life review of any
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experience my soul had ever undergone so
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which is so crazy it was so crazy to me
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did you believe in past lives prior to
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that moment I really I didn't think
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anything I really didn't even know what
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a near-death experience was until I got
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back so I this was all very foreign to
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me
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I had heard maybe of people that had had
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an out-of-body experience I did not know
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at this math so yeah I mean this was
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this was definitely very very foreign
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for me
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and do you feel like you got a window
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into prior lives absolutely I mean the
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biggest thing that I really learned was
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I learned you know sometimes we all have
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like just this common reoccurring theme
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that's happening in our lives whether
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it's you know poor finances or a
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relationship trouble I got to learn
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during my lifetime reviews what that
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comment theme was and actually how to
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clear it Wow
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because what it happened was it was
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attaching to my soul yeah during every
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lifetime
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I'm sorry but I believe that but I feel
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like that's part of karma yeah and that
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you keep getting the chance to get it
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right
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and and you know eventually hopefully
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you do and you move on to the next plane
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yeah but I really think there's
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something to that yeah the the notion of
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being dead but not dead is confusing to
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people and we have a doctor here his
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name is dr. Sam Parr Nia a world expert
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on the science of death and the author
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of erasing death which sounds like a
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great idea doc thank you for being here
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so what measure how could she be dead
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but not dead for 90 minutes well you
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know it's a very good question of course
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the reality is that we all have a
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perception of death and this goes back
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millennia which is essentially the death
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is a moment there's a time when you are
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either alive or you're dead and the
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reason we think that is because when the
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heart stops you have no more blood
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flowing into your brain and sure other
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organs the brain shuts down immediately
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a person becomes lifeless motionless and
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they are dead or even if you go back to
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the French Revolution when you if
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somebody had lost their head there's no
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more blood getting into the brain and
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Anna shots however what's amazing is
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that about 50 60 years ago we discovered
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CPR and we found that actually you can
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artificially restart the heart or
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produce a circulation get blood flowing
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around the body even after a person has
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died and that made our definitions more
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ambiguous and what is now even more
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interesting is that we understand that
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it's only after a person has died which
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makes perfect sense but the cells inside
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the body start to undergo their own
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process of death so when somebody's
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heart starts stops it's only then that
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the cells will start to die and that
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process takes many hours possibly days
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how has your outlook on death and life
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changed as a result of this experience
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I am definitely no longer afraid of
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death and that was something that I had
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feared my entire life yeah and what I
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learned is that that fear of death
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really prevents you from truly living
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and so if you were to know me prior to
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my near-death experience and now it's
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like I'm two completely different people
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because I lived pre pre near-death I
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lived my life very all my decisions were
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like beasts around fear fear of what
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other people thought fear of what other
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people would say you know fear of not
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good enough or fear of of being unworthy
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even though I was successful in my
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earlier years every decision was still
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based upon that now I flip the script
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I'm doing everything they're making them
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out of the wrong place I'm so glad
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you're well you've got your new heart
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yes look amazing and thank you for
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selling and we're telling your story
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