on one of the paddles. Suddenly I was back inside my body. One minute I was looking down at my face. I could see the tops of the doctors' heads. After he pushed that button, I was suddenly looking into a doctor's face." The boy's report was accurate in every detail (Duncan 45).NDEers also seem to lose all fear of dying. In one study conducted in Australia, forty people ranging in age from seven to fifty-eight, were asked if they feared death before their NDEs. Seventy-eight percent responded that they did. When asked if they now feared death, every one of them said "No." They felt they had been given a preview of what comes next and were certain it was going to be wonderful (Duncan 47): "Natalie had an acute asthma attack and passed out in the office of her pediatrician. While unconscious, she suffered a seizure that nearly killed her. . . . She described the amazing things that happened when she was on the verge of death. She felt herself ejected from her body; then she entered a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel she saw a bright light and people waiting to welcome her. Suddenly two friendly light figures' appeared, one on either side of her. Each took one of her hands, and they carried her with them down the tunnel. Natalie felt a strong desire to get to the Light and was impatient because her companions were moving so slowly.As they traveled through the tunnel, Natalie saw images from her childhood, one of which was her father pushing her on a swing. Then she saw an image of her mother and thought about how sad her family would be if she died. At that point the light figures' set Natalie down and released her hands. Concerned about the grief her death would cause her loved ones, Natalie reluctantly turned her back on the Light, walked back out of the tunnel and returned to her body (Duncan 36)." Common fears of people of all ranges of experience range from the fundamental fears to the more complex. As a fear of the unknown, death, fal...
