Female Student Recalls Leaving Body After Doctors Fail to Save Her Life—But Returns, Wakes Up in Morgue

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A computer programming student was undergoing surgery in Costa Rica, when she died, experienced the afterlife, then returned to her body—in the morgue.

Graciela H. shares her story on the Near Death Experience Research Foundation website. This story has not been independently verified.

During Surgery

I saw doctors working fast on me. … They were agitated. They took my VS [vital signs], did CPR. Everybody began to leave the room slowly. I didn’t understand why they were acting like that.