Dead People Talking: The Incredible Stories of Men and Women Who Have Survived Death or Near Death and Lived to Tell Them

By Dr. John Haart PhD

This book and its predecessor, Dead Man Watching, WestBow Press, 2017, is all about people of Christian faith who have actually or almost died with all the medical indicators. This description can be used in the historical sense, as with Abraham Lincoln or JFK. While there may or may not have been actual medical certificates of death, these stories are nonetheless about people who were actually dead or nearly dead and came to life again or survived near death. The mystery of how this happens in each case is attributed to faith and calling upon the mercy of God in the name of Jesus Christ.

The many responses to Dr. John Haart’s first book, Dead Man Watching, WestBow Press, 2017, became the motivation for this sequel publication. The author’s eagerness to tell his story and witness to the mercy of God in life and death has been met with similar responses on a multiple of occasions, “I also have a story to tell you,” or some variation thereof. Those accounts have been recreated as word pictures and some illustrations to provide the reader with the more incredible accounts of revival or survival from death or near death by the mercy of God. The key element of these accounts is prayer and faith as opposed to evening news oddities titled:
“Can you believe this actually happened?”

This entire story is about the mercy of God from beginning to multiple ends; it is a modern testimony of how God works in mysterious ways through and over many stages of life. The amazing revelation for all those who read these stories is that these are real people who died or almost died, and they are now talking to you about the miraculous interventions of God in death and life again. In a very real way this book is an auto-obituary of those who witnessed their own deaths or near deaths and now live to tell their stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973685173

Dr. John Haart PhD

The author is a published and a lifetime academic in the fields of Education and Communications. This is his first work about his Christian walk and ministry. John Haart PhD is a lifetime academic in the fields of Fine Art, Art History, Photography, Secondary Education, Media, and Communications. This is his second work about Christian faith and dramatic testimonies of survival through lives of faith in Jesus Christ, as Lord and Savior.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020902345

WestBow Press rev. date: 02/20/2020

Contents

Going back to the Author’s Death and Survival

Introductory Texts on Death

1   The Meanings of Death and Survival

2   The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

3   Thomas A Kempis, Meditation on Death

4   How Two Family Members Responded to Death

5   Bianca’s Tribute to Her Great Grandmother

6   Mckenzie’s Message to Her Grandmother

Part One

After Death Experiences: Survivals

Chapter 1   The Death and Survival x 3 of Hans

Chapter 2   The Death and Survival of Betty

Chapter 3   The Tragic Death and Survival of Michael

Chapter 4   The Death and Survival of Loreto

Chapter 5   The Death and Survival of Jared

Part Two

Near Death Experiences: Survivals

Chapter 1   The Near Death of Jenny

Chapter 2   The Near Death of Daniel

Chapter 3   Pastor Mathew’s Near Death

Chapter 4   Denny’s Life and Death

Chapter 5   Pamela’s death under a city bus

Chapter 6   Tommy’s Near death

Chapter 7   The Near Death of Joe

Chapter 8   Nick’s Sad Lifetime of Near Death

Chapter 9   Death at 82 and Still Living

Chapter 10 Kelly’s Near Death and Another on a Horse Cart

Conclusion

Going back to the Author’s

Death and Survival

Reviewing the story of my survival of death as illustrated in Dead Man Watching, 2017: the episode began on a chilly afternoon on a hill in our northwestern Ontario town. We had rented our farm and moved into town to work in St. Anthony’s, a Canadian and Italian parish. I was on my way home from another day of teaching at a local high school. Climbing up the steep hill with walls of snow on either side, I noticed an occasional, sharp pain in my chest, which eventually dissipated upon resting for a few minutes. After five separate stops, I made it through the front door of our home. Very strange … What was that all about?

I did not think too much more about it for that night; however, that all changed the next morning. (The statistical numbers on the most common time of heart attack is early morning.) I got out of bed with serious chest pains, sweating, nausea, and dry-heave vomiting. (At that time I did not know it, but these are the classic signs of a heart attack.) When I hit the floor at the top of the stairs outside my bedroom, our very concerned daughter helped me up and insisted that we should drive to the closest hospital only two blocks away.

(This is the point of serious caution about what to do next with a suspected heart attack. Never drive yourself or allow someone to take you. You need medical help immediately. CALL AN AMBULANCE … TO SAVE YOUR LIFE.)

Of course, being in denial that anything was really wrong, I thought it was too much trouble. (A couple of months previously, my EKG and stress test confirmed that I had no problems related to any heart or artery issues.) After all, I was only fifty years