I died and went to heaven - there's a surprising test you must take when you get there

When Amber Cavanagh thought she was going to die, the unconscious ma could perceive her household saying their goodbyes earlier she entered the 'meeting constituent of heaven.'

The 43-year-old psychic mean from Vancouver Island, Canada, suffered 2 strokes successful December 2021 and was rushed to the infirmary for exigency encephalon surgery. 

While she was semi-conscious and incapable to pass clearly, her household and doctors thought she wasn't capable to perceive them arsenic they said their goodbyes. 

Mrs Cavanagh said: 'It was horrific. I heard the nurses archer my kids: ''Say everything you privation present to your mom, arsenic you astir apt won't spot her again.''

As she was flown by chopper to different hospital, she closed her eyes and erstwhile she opened them again, she was successful different dimension. 

Now, she's revealed successful her publication wherever we spell earlier crossing into eden and the astonishing determination we person to marque erstwhile we get there.

Mrs Cavanagh, who lived a steadfast manner earlier her strokes, was watching a movie with her household erstwhile she suffered a abrupt 'excruciating' migraine and went to furniture early.

A fewer hours later, however, she woke up and fell to the crushed arsenic the close broadside of her assemblage had go wholly paralyzed and she went unsighted successful 1 eye.

In an effort to telephone for help, she banged connected the partition to alert her hubby who instantly called for an ambulance, rushing her to hospital.

Mrs Cavanagh had suffered a changeable and was semi-unconscious. Doctors past told her she was experiencing a 2nd changeable and her encephalon was bleeding 'uncontrollably.'

To halt the bleeding, she was fixed a humor clotting cause with a 50 percent endurance complaint owed to its aggravated effects connected the body.

However, this attraction was unsuccessful and she was flown to a adjacent infirmary for exigency encephalon surgery.

At first, Mrs Cavanagh thought the full ordeal was a 'dream,' but arsenic she arrived astatine the hospital, world acceptable in.

Throughout the emergency, her household assumed she couldn't perceive them – but she could, leaving her 'petrified.'

She said: 'It was horrific. It was looking much than apt that I was really going to die.

'I heard the nurses archer my kids: ''Say everything you privation present to your mom, arsenic you astir apt won't spot her again.''

'I was virtually frightened to death, and I was non-verbal, everyone thought I was conscionable mumbling successful a authorities of unconsciousness, erstwhile really, I was trying to speech to them to find retired what was going on.'

Mrs Cavanagh added: 'I heard everyone saying their goodbyes and crying, not knowing I was inactive successful there.

'It's still, to this day, 1 of the astir terrifying things I person ever experienced.'

While successful the helicopter, she recalls taking 1 past glimpse astatine the prima earlier shutting her eyes.

When opening them again, she said she was successful different dimension, having crossed to the 'other side.'

Mrs Cavanagh said: 'I could spot my carnal assemblage beneath me, but I could besides spot my kids being driven by their grandparents to the hospital. I could spot my hubby weeping implicit my body. 

'There was nary going toward the light, oregon radical calling maine – I was conscionable watching implicit everything and everyone.'

She added: 'I went into what I tin lone picture arsenic the 'meeting point' of eden earlier officially passing over. There was nary fear, lone love.

'I looked similar the champion mentation of myself and had everyone I had ever loved that was nary longer with america astir maine – including my puerility dogs.

'There was nary who, what, why, erstwhile oregon wherever to reply anymore, I conscionable knew everything. Around maine was an unthinkable garden, wherever I could truly consciousness the writer beneath my feet. 

'Then, I saw each my loved ones to the right, each mentation of me, past, contiguous and aboriginal to the left, and my guides stood close successful beforehand of me. 

'I spoke telepathically to everyone, including my nan and grandma... determination was specified a deep-rooted feeling of axenic comfort.'

However, Mrs Cavanagh's 'guides' gave her pugnacious determination to make: 'If I wanted to beryllium with my kids again, oregon enactment successful this spot wherever I felt bid similar I had ne'er done before.'

If she stayed, her household would endure and would person to flooded the aggravated grief of her death.

But if she returned to her carnal body, she would look a grueling betterment – and regret the decision.

Mrs Cavanagh said: 'It sounds bad, but I wasn't frightened for my family, arsenic I knew everything was going to beryllium OK.' 

However, she knew it wasn't her clip to dice yet. She closed her eyes and suddenly, she was backmost successful her ain assemblage again.  

She said: 'Knowing I had to permission this spot that had an overwhelming glow of loving airy was truthful difficult.'

For the adjacent 2 weeks, she remained successful the hospital, and doctors were adamant she would request to beryllium successful attraction for the remainder of her life.

However, she was talking and moving wrong hours.

She said: 'They inactive don't recognize it. My doc says I'm his 'miraculous patient' arsenic I didn't adjacent request the country similar they planned.

'Yes, determination was a batch of harm to my assemblage and brain, but I was live – and that was the main thing.'

Mrs Cavanagh added: 'It truly wasn't easy, arsenic it was similar coming home, I didn't privation to leave.

'I've had to relearn everything; however to walk, speech and eat. It's enactment my household done hellhole and back, but now, I don't fearfulness dying oregon going implicit to the different side. I fearfulness I won't beryllium capable to spell backmost to that spot again.'

Over the people of 10 weeks, the psychic mean had to relearn each her basal functions and spell done carnal and code therapy.

While she's inactive numb successful the close broadside of her body, beingness has returned to somewhat normal, though her acquisition has taught her a invaluable acquisition and changed her outlook connected life.

While an acquisition similar Mrs Cavanagh's whitethorn dependable similar thing retired of a sci-fi movie, near-death experiences and radical who person 'crossed over' oregon gone to the 'other side' and returned person been a taxable of involvement to doctors and researchers for years. 

Dr Jeffrey Long - a cancer adept who practices successful Kentucky - has studied thousands of near-death cases. His probe has uncovered similarities among antithetic accounts of people's brushes with decease and person upended what helium primitively believed happens erstwhile idiosyncratic dies. 

In 1998, helium and his woman established the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, a website that allows radical from astir the satellite to papers their ain spiritual and out-of-body experiences.

He has truthful acold collected much than 5,000 accounts successful much than 30 languages from radical of assorted religions and taste backgrounds.  

Through his decades of research, Dr Long has concluded that astir 45 percent of near-death experiences see a consciousness of being out-of-body, successful which people's consciousness is separated from their carnal being.

About three-quarters of those who acquisition this reported wanting to enactment successful the afterlife due to the fact that of the immense emotion and joyousness that overtook them. More than fractional study seeing a 'heavenly' realm and astir a 4th of them are enveloped successful airy oregon mist.

Mrs Cavanagh hopes her communicative volition assistance radical consciousness little acrophobic of dying and to assistance america recognize we're ne'er genuinely alone: 'Death was the astir unthinkable happening I person ever been through. The full acquisition has really made maine grateful for the strokes.' 

She added: 'I've learned a beingness worthy of patience. There's much to beingness than society's expectations of humans – and there's impervious we're not alone.

'On the different side, there's a squad of loved ones cheering america connected everyday. I've been stripped down and had to physique myself backmost up again.

'It's been horrible, but humbling. My household and I are overmuch person and we don't instrumentality beingness truthful seriously.

'It's made maine admit the quality of beingness and has fixed maine a caller perspective.'

She continued: 'I americium human, truthful I'm fearful I volition person different changeable again, but I'm not acrophobic of dying anymore.

'I bash interest I'll permission my kids excessively soon, arsenic they've been done capable and I privation to spot them turn up.

'But it's thing I'll ne'er regret going through, it's fixed maine a accidental to grieve the aged maine and invited this caller chapter.

'Sometimes, erstwhile I'm having a pugnacious day, I'll adjacent my eyes and retrieve feeling the writer nether my feet.

'I question past if I made the close decision; but I cognize I was fixed the prime to dispersed the connection that we're each present for a reason.'

Amber has written a book, At the Stroke of Eternity, successful hopes she tin amended radical connected her acquisition and what happens erstwhile idiosyncratic is connected the cusp of death.