In Search Of... Season 1 # 19, LIFE AFTER DEATH

Code Blue alerts a special team of doctors and nurses when a patient has died. A resuscitation attempt will be made. If it is successful a patient is brought back to life. In some cases they have amazing stories to tell about what it is like on the other side.

The medical definition of death has been challenged by the advance of science. People who have technically crossed the line between life and death give accounts which are remarkably similar. And the experience does not seem to be an unpleasant one at all. 

Someone says: "I lost control of my car in a curve and I remember thinking: 'This is the end'. I felt like I was tumbling through a long tunnel. And then, suddenly, I found myself flowing over the scene of the accident. Another account says: "I was overcome by the feeling of utter peace and tranquillity."
Another person reports: "I felt exhilarated and started moving upward in the tunnel. In the end of the tunnel there was that light which was so bright. And then I saw him, about a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet ahead of me – a figure that I knew to be God."  
Another statement: "I was a scientific person; I thoroughly disbelieved in anything that was psychic. A was an atheist, very pragmatic. And here I experienced something that was impossible. My consciousness was on the top of the room. I could see all the students watching the op very clearly… I believe now, very strongly, that there is a life after that."