Special Thanks to Jody Long at the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (https://www.nderf.org/) for providing me with a list of NDEs with frightening content.

Most Near Death Experiences (NDEs) are wonderful beautiful experiences involving a sense of freedom and peace associated with the Out-of-Body state. People report going through a tunnel or somehow transitioning to another dimension where they can have encounters with beings of Light, deceased relatives, or even the Source of all consciousness itself--what some might call God. Profound feelings of love and peace are common in such experiences.

However, there is another side to the NDE that doesn't get much press. That is people who say they experienced pain and suffering in the afterlife. Most comm ...