Dr. Ray Catania describes a near-death experience where he walked toward a tunnel of light and a being calling his name, until his father burst in, pulled his lifeless body back, and cried for paramedics. The unexpected love from a father he'd been distant with made him choose to return to life.
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What this is, I cannot explain to you, but I can tell you it's love, peace, euphoria, something magical and beautiful that I want to go in. And I begin to go into the light. There's even a being at the end of the light who says, 'Ray, it's okay to come into the light.' I was shocked. Says he knows my name, or she. I don't know if it was a he or she, but I was stunned. Anyway, I wanted to go to the other side, and here's why: because each time you get a little bit more into the light, a little bit more into the tunnel, that euphoria starts to increase and increase. So it, it's pulling you there almost. Um, but here's what happens. As much as I want to get to the other side, in that moment, my father kicks through the door of my room, bashes through, scoops up my dead body on the floor, and he's screaming for the paramedics, 'Help my son! Help my son!' And I hear this, and I see this, and this is something I've never seen from him. We didn't have a good relationship. We didn't even have an okay relationship. So to see him in that moment where he was obviously expressing love really got to me, and I wanted to go back. And I wanted to go back because I wanted to experience that love.