nts are actually glad to be back alive, finding the near-death experience to be
             terrifying. There are three types of this frightening near-death experience; in the first one, the
             person feels distress or terror; in the second, the person feels alone and gets the impression that
             what is real is not; and in the third case, the most rare case, the person looks upon a dirty, ugly
             Near-death experiences differ from culture to culture, but no matter a person’s culture,
             race, age, or gender, near-death experiences share many common traits. A near-death experience
             most often goes in this order: intense emotion, the out-of-body experience, the dark tunnel, a
             being of light at the end of the tunnel, and then he or she is sent back.
             The one thing that has been shown to be true of all near-death experiences is that the
             person is greatly changed after the experience. One experiment using fifty-three individuals who
             had a near-death experience and twenty-seven individuals who were on the brink of death but had
             no near-death experience showed that it is in fact the near-death experience that causes change
             and not just being on the brink of death. The most common change being that he or she no longer
             ‘I went into a room, and saw this light,’ says Taffy Williams, . . . ‘It went on
             forever. I put my hand into it, and felt such peace. It was indescribable. I didn’t
             want to leave it.’ Williams was then thrown back into her body, and the first
             sentence she uttered was: ‘It’s ok to die’ (Levine 139).
             Another very common change is that the person will have a greater concern for others.
             I was always looking over my back, screwing the next guy. I had acquaintances
             but few real friends. When I came out [of the NDE] all the stress was gone. I had
             an innate sense of ...