By The Light Astonishing True Stories of Near Death Experiences Dramatic Lifesty by Lionel Bascom

Author:Lionel Bascom
Format: epub

CHAPTER FOUR

Kate Valentine

When her time came, Kate says she just lay down and was ready to die.

But something went awry.

A public relations executive and onetime chief executive officer for a major nonprofit organization, Kate was used to planning her life. Planning the end of her life was carried out in much the same way she had planned and executed any other campaign – care and precision, paying close attention to the details.

Kate took care of almost every detail – except one. As the night closed in on her, she was still busy in her bed, writing notes to Paul, her husband, knowing these would be her last words. She had already arranged for her sister to take care of her three young children, little stair steps at five, twelve and fourteen years old. The living will had been made out and all the insurance policies were in order.

Finally, she had written Paul last-minute notes on those little yellow stickum things, telling him how she’d like things after she was gone. Forget-me-nots, she called them.

So there was nothing left for this thirty-two-year-old woman to do that windy March night in 1980 but to lay her ailing, cancer-racked body down and expect to die. Her death that night would have culminated a six-year losing battle with thyroid cancer that had left her with an irregular heartbeat and severe circulation problems. She barely weighed ninety pounds and was emotionally exhausted.

I know I am dying, she thinks, telling herself it’s all right to let go and die. A headache bored right through her thoughts, reminding her of all the things that had gone wrong with her body. Examining her aching hands and feet that night, she saw they were steadily turning blacker from being bloodless for so long. Even standing was painful, and walking had become nearly impossible now. So Kate was confined to the upper floors of their renovated Victorian home in an idyllic part of Connecticut, known as the Winsted section of Winchester, near the Massachusetts border.

Even the transplanted thyroid glands, which produced chemicals that controlled muscle tone, weren’t working. So her body’s largest muscle, the heart, was as out of whack as the rest of her that night.

No one has to tell me, she told herself quietly. I know I am dying.

Kate does not remember specifically what she did last. But she does remember this . . .

“A feeling just came over me that it’s okay now. I did it all,” she said, then closed her eyes.

“It was very black, not black like when you close your eyes, because this time there were no shadows. This blackness was all-pervasive,” she said years afterward.

No, Kate did not die, even though her cancer and all the complications associated with it should have killed her, if you believed her doctors. Instead of dying, she was treated to the experience of her life.

“There was this burst of light. It was almost as if I were enveloped by it in an instant. It wasn’t blinding, but it was so incredible,” she said, her clear eyes sparkling with the memory of the experience.

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