{"id":5846,"date":"2025-09-28T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:33:48","slug":"i-died-for-several-minutes-what-i-saw-changed-my-life-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/i-died-for-several-minutes-what-i-saw-changed-my-life-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"I died for several minutes, what I saw changed my life forever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chase Skylar DeMayo died and came back to life (Picture: Jam Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the morning of April 1, 2008, Chase Skylar DeMayo didn’t show up for work at Langley Air Force Base, where he was posted as a survival evasion resistance and escape instructor.<\/p>\n

His supervisor used a key to access his dorm room and found him unconscious, so the then 19-year-old was rushed to hospital for x-rays and blood tests.<\/p>\n

Doctors<\/a> couldn’t find anything wrong, but it was there, he died for several minutes, after watching his heart monitor flatline, and got a glimpse of what happens when you die<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lying on his hospital bed, Chase’s vision suddenly blurred and everything went hazy.<\/p>\n

‘The last thing I heard was alarms going off,’ Chase, 38, explains. ‘A calming voice told me that it would be OK, and I felt no fear at all – only peace.’<\/p>\n

An air embolism had entered his IV drip at the hospital, causing his cardiac arrest.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chase was 19 and in the air force when he had his near-death experience (Picture: Jam Press\/Chase Skylar DeMayo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘The pain that came up my arm felt like something five, ten times too large in that vein, it was so painful you could almost feel every centimetre of it travelling up,’ he told Coming Home<\/a>, a YouTube<\/a> channel that covers near-death experiences.<\/p>\n

Once his heart stopped, he recalls floating in mid-air as he was greeted by a familiar face and voice; Jesus. It makes sense, since growing up in Orlando, Florida<\/a>, he was adopted by his grandparents and experienced a religious upbringing.<\/p>\n

‘I watched my body from above as I spun upward like a tornado<\/a>, surrounded by lights, angels, laughter and music like bells,’ the married dad-of-one says.<\/p>\n

‘I ended up in a vibrant garden with colours brighter than anything here on Earth. There, I saw Jesus.’<\/p>\n

He explains he didn’t look how Jesus was typically depicted, instead wearing a warm smile with curly brown hair and green eyes.<\/p>\n

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Chase with his wife and son (Picture: Jam Press\/Chase Skylar DeMayo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘He was playing with a child who was my younger, happier self,’ Chase adds. ‘We connected without words. He told me to go back and spread love, laughter, light and joy.<\/p>\n

‘And reminded me of my true purpose on Earth beyond everyday struggles. No matter my past, I had light to chase and share.’<\/p>\n

He had had a few difficult months prior to this, having suffered an injury in both knees, which left him in the process of being medically retired from the military, and which meant he lost his sense of purpose.<\/p>\n

But, as he died, Jesus was there, in heaven telling him his time hadn’t yet come.<\/p>\n

‘I was always a happy kid but I think I’d forgotten that by the time I was 19, I was taking life so seriously and I was so worried about my career and the military, I’d forgotten about being that happy little kid, so it was a beautiful reminder of how I should be,’ he added on Coming Home.<\/p>\n

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Chase believes he came face-to-face with Jesus when he died (Picture: Jam Press\/Chase Skylar DeMayo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chase still can’t comprehend that he remembers everything from his near death experience. ‘I was fully aware, and the initial pain I felt turned into calm,’ he says.<\/p>\n

‘There was an element of surprise, though no fear about dying. It was peaceful and beautiful, like cool ice leaving my chest.<\/p>\n

‘I didn’t want to leave the garden at first, but I understood my purpose wasn’t done.’<\/p>\n

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