People Reveal the Near-Death Experiences That Changed Them Forever

After overdosing on sleeping pills while young and heartbroken, this person expected only escape from emotional pain. Instead, they said, “The shock of the absolute nothingness I experienced for a few moments brought me enough strength to crawl back to town and get taken to the hospital.”

On the ride there, they kept slipping back toward that nothingness and fighting against it. They later said, “There are no emotional troubles that are as awful as that sliver of nothingness I felt.” The experience stayed with them as a reason to keep living.