Amazing descriptions of heaven - from kids who’ve been there

By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report

A little girl who lay clinically dead for 27 minutes after a swimming pool mishap awoke and gave doctors a vivid description of her visit to heaven where, she says, “I met Jesus and sat on his lap.”

The 8-year-old drowning victim is one of hundreds of children worldwide who’ve recounted startlingly similar tales of the hereafter, providing researchers with amazing proof of life after death.

“These youngsters all were determined to be clinically dead … they all had a glimpse of heaven … they all recalled what it was like to go there,” said Charlotte, N.C.-based pediatrician Dr. Marilyn Renoir-Martin, who has studied the life-after-death recollections of over 250 children.

The doctor said the near-death accounts of kids are especially important because children, unlike adults, are less likely to be influenced by notions of what heaven should be like.

This means their recollections “are purer and more accurate,” she explained. “They aren’t trying to tell us what I want to hear. They’re only telling us what they experienced and what they saw. They have no ulterior motives.”

Renoir-Martin said the little girl who lay lifeless for 27 minutes after her parents found her lying face-down on the bottom of their backyard swimming pool snapped back to consciousness after being declared dead in a hospital’s emergency room. She excitedly told a doctor, “Heaven is fun.”

In his official report of the incident, the physician said the child ”had been pronounced dead 11 minutes earlier and according to her parents’ accounts of the swimming accident, she likely had been dead for at least 27 minutes.”

He went on to say that she told him she had been led into heaven by a golden-haired woman who called herself ”Elizabeth” and took the child to see Jesus, who lifted her up onto his lap.

“She said Jesus kissed her and said, ’You aren’t supposed to be here yet. I want you to come back to see me, but not until your time has come.’ That’s shen she snapped back to life in the emergency room,” Dr. Renoir-Martin said.

In another striking case, she continued, “A little boy awoke after laying clinically dead for several minutes following a cancer operation. He told his parents: ‘I was climbing stairs up to heaven.’

“But the boy said he decided to return to be with his family because he knew they would miss him and, as he puts it, ‘the angels told me to.’

“Many of these youngsters tell of being on stairways or in long tunnels, heading for someplace special,” the pediatrician said.

Other children Renoir-Martin has studied include:

- An 11-year-old boy whose heart stopped beating in a children’s hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

“He said he heard a whooshing sound and suddenly found himself floating to the ceiling, where he could see the doctors and nurses working over his body,” Renoir-Martin said.

“He accurately described what went on in that room and identified who was in the room even though he was in cardiac arrest.

“He said he tried to speak to the doctors but couldn’t. Suddenly, he said, he was lifted upward through a shaft or tunnel of light into a place of calm and peace. A man who called himself Ezekial and was dressed in flowing white robes asked him, ‘Do you want to stay here or go back?’

When a powerful electric shock restored his heartbeat, the boy recalled being “suddenly sucked back into my body.”

- An 11-year-old boy whose heart suddenly stopped beating after he was struck by a car said he remembers traveling through a tunnel with bright lights flashing all around him.

“I don’t know where I was going, but knew I really wanted to get to the end of that tunnel,” he said, adding that he wound up standing in a meadow ‘with millions of angels’ - including his beloved grandmother. She told him ‘to go back to your world, but don’t forget that you will come back when it is your time.’”

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