Lisa Unger Quotes

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

But I did die once. (I don't recommend it.)

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

I'm sure that I've already been dead.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes. They lied. The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

I'm still not sure I didn't die

I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.