near death experiences

Randy Schiefer needed intensive physical therapy after nearly a month in a medically-induced coma.

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How a near-death experience could change the way you live

5:01am July 25, 2022

by Lee Hale

When Randy Schiefer was hospitalized with COVID-19, he wasn't sure he would survive. Now, he looks back at that experience as the most important thing that has ever happened to him.

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After 17 Brushes With Death, A Writer Reflects On Coming 'Back From The Brink'

2:03pm February 05, 2018

by Terry Gross

Maggie O'Farrell recounts the multiple times she cheated death in her memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am. "We're different people afterwards," she says. "These experiences always take up residence inside us."