you correctly, you re having a conversation with jesus? uh-huh. reporter: what are you asking him? we talk more about reasons i had been sent back. it had to do with my husband s health. so, when a couple of our friends died from unexpected causes, i then pushed my husband to have his heart checked, and it was on this heart scan that they ended up finding this lung legion that was malignant. reporter: how serious was it? had it not been found, he probably would not be here. so one person who was not part of our special report on sunday, but who claims to have had a near death experience, is mary jo rapini, a psychotherapist who formally worked as a hospice nurse. in that role she attended patients that claimed they experienced heaven or god. she thought they were
i know they want to call it hypoxy, maybe you don t have enough oxygen in your blood or maybe that part of brain was stimulated, yes, maybe, but at the same time when you talk to everyone who had one, including me, who i m very i m scientific in my thought, i m professional, i m telling you, it is a real thing. mary jo rapini, thank you. heroism in afghanistan in service of the u.s. army but that service nearly cost a young man his life when the taliban put him on a kill list. that s when american soldier sprang into action to help. [ imitating engine revving ] that s mine. that s mine. that s mine. come on, kyle. [ horn honks ] that s mine.kyle. [ male announcer ] revenge is best served with 272 horses.
i m a human. and it held me very tight and it said you can do better. what do you say to skeptics out there? because you know people will look at this and say, look, it s been in the movies, it s been in books, people seeing the light, the tunnel. maybe it was a dream. maybe you dreamed something you heard before repeatedly. well, what i say to the skeptics is i embrace you. i am a skeptic. i was a skeptic. i i m trained in the sciences. i m a nurse. i m a psychotherapist. i m married to a physician. we risk i risk my credibility having this happened to me. it s not a dream. i m hoping i m on the team that researches these things, that tries to understand them, and i know they want to call it a dream. i know they want to call it hypoxy, maybe you don t have enough oxygen in your blood or maybe that part of brain was stimulated, yes, maybe, but at the same time when you talk to everyone who had one, including
you ever loved anyone the way you ve been loved here? and the love there is not this love. it s not a human love. and i responded no, it s impossible. i m a human. and it held me very tight and it said you can do better. what do you say to skeptics out there? because you know people will look at this and say, look, it s been in the movies, it s been in books, people seeing the light, the tunnel. maybe it was a dream. maybe you dreamed something you heard before repeatedly. well, what i say to the skeptics is i embrace you. i am a skeptic. i was a skeptic. i i m trained in the sciences. i m a nurse. i m a psychotherapist. i m married to a physician. we risk i risk my credibility having this happened to me. it s not a dream. i m hoping i m on the team that researches these things, that tries to understand them, and i know they want to call it a dream.
had a near death experience, is mary jo rapini, a psychotherapist who formally worked as a hospice nurse. in that role she attended patients that claimed they experienced heaven or god. she thought they were hallucinating but mary jo s life changed profoundly when she suffered a severe brain aneurysm and she joins us. marry joe, you say you had a near death experience ten years ago. what happened? first of all, there is a light and it s it was in my right hand far side corner, and its an unusual light. it s not a human light. it was quite small and grew larger and before i knew what was really happening, i was in it, and it s a limited area, many refer to it as a tunnel and i think the reason is because you re aware that it is limited. it was very warm, very loving, and before i as i was going toward the tunnel, i remember looking back at over my