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This is about religion and politics!!!

by Ken Durham
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Not Really... I just wanted to make Paul look.

This is about dying and then not....

I could have sworn I was dead when I had my stroke... then I didn't die...
New life? or old burdens? is there a difference?

There are some here that have looked at death.. and lived.

How does the money factor in now?
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Ken Durham View Post

    This is about dying and then not....
    Don't look now, but some people say that "near-death experiences" are about religion.

    I'm glad you're still with us, Ken. And so are many others.

    Originally Posted by Ken Durham View Post

    How does the money factor in now?
    This one I can't answer. How does the money factor in now? :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I've experienced is numerous times over the past 7 years.
    To answer your queation,money is nice but not as much a priority as before.
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    Are you John's brother?
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    • Profile picture of the author John Durham
      Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

      Are you John's brother?

      Nope, not in the blood brother sense anyway.

      Glad you are still with us Ken.

      I had a friend pass away the other day who was my age...43.

      Sorta makes you wonder how solid all of your big plans really are.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Some day your life will flash in front of your eyes - make it worth watching.
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          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          Some day your life will flash in front of your eyes - make it worth watching.
          What's more is.... who else is watching?
          Do you live in a vacuum, does your existence tip any ballance do your actions have any weight?
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      • Profile picture of the author bravo75
        Originally Posted by John Durham View Post

        Nope, not in the blood brother sense anyway.

        Glad you are still with us Ken.

        I had a friend pass away the other day who was my age...43.

        Sorta makes you wonder how solid all of your big plans really are.
        That's strange. A friend of mine aged 43 passed away recently as well.

        He got shot in Algeria. You might have seen it on the news, his name was Paul Morgan.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Durham
    No didnt see it Bravo, but Im sorry to hear that. Mine died of a heart attack, probably over stressing about his business. He had lost everything five years earlier in a divorce, kinda went down hill and spent the last five years of his life struggling to get back on top of things. It was sad man. Passed away from stress right in the middle of all his big plans. This was a guy who jogged four miles per day too.
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    • Profile picture of the author bravo75
      Originally Posted by John Durham View Post

      No didnt see it Bravo, but Im sorry to hear that. Mine died of a heart attack, probably over stressing about his business. He had lost everything five years earlier in a divorce, kinda went down hill and spent the last five years of his life struggling to get back on top of things. It was sad man. Passed away from stress right in the middle of all his big plans. This was a guy who jogged four miles per day too.
      That's a damn shame. Stress is a real killer. I got my facts wrong, my mate was 46. He used to frequent my mother's pub in Spain.

      A Gulf war veteran who was the first Briton to be killed in the Algerian BP gas plant siege 'went down fighting' to protect colleagues after Al Qaeda kidnappers ambushed the bus he was travelling on.
      Former Foreign Legion soldier and security chief at the In Amenas plant, Paul Morgan, 46, was the first Briton to be officially identified yesterday and was last night described as a 'true gentleman who died doing the job he loved' by his family.
      Mr Morgan, who worked for the Cheshire-based private security firm Stirling Group, was on a bus taking him to the airport where he was due to catch a flight home when it was ambushed by Al Qaeda operatives on Wednesday morning.
      A former legionnaire who served with him said: 'He was a good soldier and a very humane and kind man.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
        Ken, if it isn't too personal a question, did you have a near death experience? I find them fascinating and have read many books and stories online about them. I'd love to hear about it if you did.


        Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

        Mr Morgan, who worked for the Cheshire-based private security firm Stirling Group, was on a bus taking him to the airport where he was due to catch a flight home ...
        He was almost home free - that really sucks. Sorry for your loss, Bravo. I lost my best friend when he was 21 and I was 22. I still miss good ol' Rollie Fisher.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I'm sorry to hear of your friends, guys. Bravo - your pal died a hero. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all go out heroes - not in battle, but at least having some people thinking of you as their champion.

    At 58, I've lost many friends and relatives. I guess it's not going to get better from here on in.

    When I was 17 I mixed aspirin with that horrible crap that I had to take for my asthma - that medicine made me feel like a monkey and think as clearly as one. They didn't bother to tell anyone in my family that mixing it with aspirin could be fatal (later I learned it was an experimental drug - also never a fact my family was told). I died. Not for very long. I came to knowing that I had 7 people standing over me working on me -- then realized I had seen them from the view above the bed. Had I actually seen that view or was that a glitch in the way I remembered it after coming to, maybe having seen them for a second when they got me going again? I don't know. I'm not religious but I do believe in survival after death and always did. I quit religion when I was 13 - it didn't make sense to me at all. So while I'm not what anyone could rightly consider an athiest, I didn't see any guy in a white robe or any white lights. Maybe I wasn't gone long enough for that or whatever.

    I've never been afraid of death since. I get a little antsy about HOW I am going to die, but not of the end result. There isn't anything science can say that can make me believe that it was a "brain glitch". I was there - the scientists weren't.
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