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Robert Hughes, art critic for Time magazine, wrote an article, "In Death's Throat" for Time, October 11, 1999. In it he describes a horrible automobile accident he had in Australia. His right tibia and fibula shattered into a half dozen pieces, his right femur was broken, the ball joint damaged, the right elbow crushed, several ribs snapped puncturing the lungs, and his collarbone and sternum were broken. He says, "In that moment I realized that there is nothing, nothing whatsoever, outside of the life we have." He was in a coma for a month and says that, at one point, he saw Death. "He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended to become a tunnel. He expected me to go in. This filled me with abhorrence, a hatred of non-being. People of a religious bent are apt, under such conditions, to see the familiar images of near-
death experience -- the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end ... Jesus must have been busy when my turn came; he didn't show. There was, as far as I could tell, absolutely nothing divine on the other side."
The fact that Jesus emerged from the grave alive and appeared to a number of different people on a number of different occasions proves to all believers that there is life after death and that we shall live eternally.
-- Guettler
death experience -- the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end ... Jesus must have been busy when my turn came; he didn't show. There was, as far as I could tell, absolutely nothing divine on the other side."
The fact that Jesus emerged from the grave alive and appeared to a number of different people on a number of different occasions proves to all believers that there is life after death and that we shall live eternally.
-- Guettler
