“Six Minutes Without a Heartbeat”: One Redditor’s Harrowing Experience Challenges Everything We Believe About the Afterlife

Paramedics finally revived the teenager on the way to the hospital. The heart began beating again. Life returned—but the caller wasn’t the same.

Over the years, the user underwent multiple surgeries and now lives with a pacemaker, a constant reminder of that brush with death. Psychologically, the change was even more profound.

“I don’t thank God anymore,” they confessed. “Whatever I saw wasn’t salvation. It was trauma.”

They say that many NDEs reinforce religious beliefs or inspire hope. This author’s experience did the opposite: It shattered faith and replaced it with raw fear.

A Voice Divided: Skeptics Versus Believers

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