My friend Peter Panagore came back from the dead. He wrote a book, "Heaven Is Beautiful," about the experience and now speaks on the Near Death Experience circuit.
But Peter will tell you he was not near-death, he was dead. And it happened to him not once, but twice.
Peter and I attended Yale Divinity School together in the early '80s. At that time, he had already died once, on an ice wall in Alberta, Canada, but he never mentioned it to me while at seminary. For years he did not speak to anyone about his experience, for just the reasons you might imagine.
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