The Other Side: How a Near-Death Experience Changed a Woman’s Life

The Other Side: How a Near-Death Experience Changed a Woman’s Life
Tricia Barker is the author of "Angels in the OR: How Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation." The memoir recounts her near death experience following a car accident. Courtesy of Tricia Barker
Andrew Thomas
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Tricia Barker was just a 21-year-old college student at The University of Texas when she was involved in a head-on collision car accident. As surgeons worked diligently to save her life, she flatlined for two and a half minutes.

In college, she struggled with depression, which was largely a result of her childhood trauma. Her mother was both emotionally and physically abusive, and her father was a narcissistic alcoholic.