When Alice encountered the figure we know as the Grim Reaper, she encountered a man who was fair, beautiful, robust, and had rosy cheeks. The fear she anticipated on meeting him someday was immediately dissipated.

He held a pair of scissors, not a sickle, nor was he dressed in black. On her journey through hell, she walked a thin line, with the angels nowhere to be seen.

Yet she felt that they were nearby and guiding her along, knowing if she missed one step, she would be gone forever. The terrifying black bubbling oil with figures reaching out and calling to her was a temptation she found not hard to resist.

She eventually arrived in a room that glistened with oblique rays of beautiful lights shining down on her. As the angels evaporated into the light, she was bewildered and asked the first of many questions.

The answers were deeply moving, and it changed her life forever. Some people wait for death.

Some people experience it unexpectedly. Others force it, and most of us, at one time or another, have contemplated what happens after death.

It is one of the great mysteries of life. Her encounter with death was remarkable.

Some of it was hellish and distressing. Most of it was enlightening and wonderful.

The most incredible experience was the changes it made in her afterward. It was a powerful guide for how she should live her life now.

She knows that in the scientific circle of people, they have many rationalizations and a variety of biological explanations to answer the sensation of leaving one's body, moving toward the light, and being encircled by overwhelming feelings of euphoria and love. They attribute these sensations to the effects of oxygen deprivation, abnormal brain function, and drugs or medication.

But she says when you have been there and done that, it is not that easy to explain away these phenomena. .