Death is the kind of subject that’s both terrifying and endlessly fascinating. We simply don’t know what’s waiting on the other side, and it’s precisely that mystery that keeps us guessing. For most of us, the only way to find out is to cross that line and never come back.
But a rare group of people have done exactly that, at least briefly—and by some miracle, returned to tell the tale. These are the men and women who were clinically dead, resuscitated, and lived to describe what they witnessed in those fleeting moments. They took to Reddit to share their stories, and we’ve rounded up the most striking ones below.
