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Ben Breedlove
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CHICAGO — A
week before Ben Breedlove died of a heart attack, the Texas teenager posted a
remarkable video describing the peace and bright lights he’d found the other
times his heart stopped.
Breedlove,
18, tells his story with simple note cards and the occasional smile, sitting
close to the camera and stepping back just once to show the scar from when a
pacemaker was implanted to help his troubled heart.
It is a
remarkably hopeful video, though Breedlove also describes the fear he lived
with after being born with a serious heart condition and disappointment that he
could not play sports and “be the same as everyone else.”
“The first
time I cheated death was when I was 4,” one of the cards said.
Breedlove
had a seizure and as nurses rushed him down a hospital hallway, he told his
mother of the bright light overhead.
She said
she couldn’t see anything, but he felt his fear and worries washed away and
couldn’t help smiling.
“I can’t
even describe the peace, how peaceful it was,” he wrote. “I will NEVER forget
that feeling or that day.”
Breedlove
nearly died again a few months ago when his heart stopped during a routine
surgery to remove his tonsils.
“It was a
miracle that they brought me back,” he wrote. “I was scared to die but am SO
glad I didn’t.”
Breedlove’s
heart stopped again on December 6. He was at his Austin high school and sat
down on a bench after feeling like he was going to faint.
He passed
out and when he woke up, he couldn’t talk or move. He could only watch and
listen as paramedics put shock pads on his chest.
He heard
them say that his heart had stopped and that he had no pulse, which he explains
by the fact that “when people’s bodies ‘die’ the brain still works for a short
time.”
“I really
thought to myself, this is it, I’m dying,” he wrote.
“The next
thing that happened I’m not sure if it was a dream or vision. But while I was
still unconscious I was in this white room. No walls, it just went on and on…”
He found
himself standing with his favorite rapper, Kid Cudi, and they were both dressed
in really nice suits.
“Why he was
the only one there with me, I’m still trying to figure out,” Breedlove wrote.
“I had that
same feeling, I couldn’t stop smiling. I then looked at myself in the mirror
and I was proud of MYSELF. Of my entire life, everything I have done. IT WAS
THE BEST feeling.”
Kid Cudi
put his hand on his shoulder and then Breedlove’s favorite song came on, the
part where Cudi raps “when will this fantasy end… when will the heaven begin?”
Cudi told
him “Go now” and Breedlove woke up.
After
viewing the video, the rapper said he broke down in tears watching it.
“This has
really touched my heart in a way I cant describe, this is why I do what I do.
Why I write my life, and why I love you all so much,” Kid Cudi wrote on his
blog.
“I know Ben
is at Peace, and I hope he gets a chance to sit and talk with my Dad.”
Breedlove
ended his video with four final cards: “I didn’t want to leave that place. I
wish I NEVER woke up. Do you believe in angels or God? I Do.”
Breedlove
died at Christmas and his family said in his death notice that it was a gift
from God.
“We know
the Lord used the amazing life of our precious son to reach a weary world on
Christmas night, just as He did over 2000 years ago with his own Son,” they
wrote, and urged people to find the video that Breedlove posted on YouTube on
December 18.
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“… When a Human almost dies, they get close to the veil, very close. They are ever so close to the creator's energy and just barely touched by it. When their heart was stopping and their breathing was almost gone, before they were brought back to life with science, they got to touch the hand of God for just an instant. What they saw was magnificent! The energy before them was filled with love and light, filled with family, filled with beauty. There was no strife there. There was no punishment there or even the hint of it. And when they came back from that experience, listen to what they told you. It changed their lives, didn't it? Listen to each one talk about it, for they continued to say, "There is nothing to fear and death is something you experience as a normal transition." Blessed is the Human Being who experiences both death and birth and has the wisdom to report, "Oh, it's uncomfortable, but I'll get through it, because I've done it before." The person who has experienced a near-death experience is no longer afraid to die! What does that tell you? They have seen what is there and they embrace it! …”
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