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Woman who died and came back to life after stroke reveals exactly what she saw

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Published 16:29 21 Dec 2025 GMT

Woman who died and came back to life after stroke reveals exactly what she saw

Amber Cavanagh suffered two major strokes in 2021

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A woman who died and came back to life after having two strokes in December 2021 has revealed what she saw before doctors saved her.

Amber Cavanagh, a psychic medium from Canada, was just 40 years old when she had the life-changing strokes.

Doctors asked her family to 'come and say goodbye' as they said she was 'more than likely' not going to survive the helicopter journey to a nearby hospital for treatment.

"I was very, very near to death, and even my kids had to come and say goodbye," Amber told Tyla earlier this year. "It's like you're trapped. I could understand everything everyone was saying, but I couldn't speak."

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While she was at death's door, Amber told 'The Other Side NDE' YouTube channel that she remembered seeing a 'beautiful garden' in the afterlife.

Amber spoke about what she saw in the afterlife (Getty Stock Photo)
Amber spoke about what she saw in the afterlife (Getty Stock Photo)

She said: "I could see my husband, I could see my body, but I didn’t have a lot of attachment to my body. It was like I closed my eyes and opened them in this beautiful garden.

"The grass and the water was like nothing I have ever felt in my life. I think I wasted more time feeling my feet in the grass than actually making this decision to come back.

"I knew I was there to make a decision and nobody was going to make it for me."

Amber recalled seeing a 'glow' from the 'light of god', adding that she wasn't alone when she 'died'. "My guides, who I had gotten to know very well were there on a bench," she added.

The 44-year-old also said her husband and children were there, though Amber did not talk to them.

Amber continued: "I saw a couple of my animals that had passed, and I saw one that hadn't passed. But she would pass before I got out of the hospital."

She also saw her mother-in-law before her guides proposed the question of staying there or going back to her life in the physical world.

Revealing what happened next, Amber told Tyla: "I finally made the decision that I want to come back. And as just as quick as I went there," she said, speaking of this beautiful 'meeting place', "I wasn't there."

Amber spent the next few weeks in hospital and healthcare professionals thought she'd need to be in care for the rest of her life.

Dubbed the 'miracle patient', Amber has not only lived to tell the tale, but also made a recovery.

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Topics: Health

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