Kit Roberts
We've all wondered at some point what might be waiting for us on the other side after we die... if indeed there is another side.
But one man has told of what he saw during a near-death experience, which happened over the course of a three-day-long coma - and apparently, this experience included him meeting Jesus.
Near-death experiences can often leave people changed when they return to their everyday life after such an extraordinary episode.
There are theories about what might cause the visions and experiences that people on the edge of death can witness.
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Some think that this is the brain's final way of comforting us in our final moments by revisiting times when we were particularly happy or content, or even by giving us images of the afterlife that we might expect to see.
For others, there's an undeniable element of the divine in near-death experiences.
Robert Marshall falls squarely into the latter camp here, with him recalling how he was 'dead' for three days in 2024.
Appearing as a guest on the Next Level Soul Podcast, Robert explained that his experience wasn't even technically a 'near-death experience', as he 'actually died', saying: "I was dead for three days."
In May of that year, he'd previously gone to an outpatient emergency room for a 'very large mass on his neck that was swollen'.
"They did MRI, blood tests. I was having trouble breathing, that's why I went there," he explained.
In a book about his experiences called 44 Hours in Heaven, Robert told how he had gone into 'code blue' three times.
A description of the book tells how this was for 'drowning on his blood in his lungs, acute hypoxic respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest'.
Robert claimed that during this time, he had gone to heaven and met Jesus.
He described heaven being filled with giant oak trees, flowers and 'the most vibrant colors', alongside an overwhelming feeling of 'peace and love'.
When he met Jesus, Robert recalls that despite his awe, he asked to be 'sent back' to comfort his wife as he 'felt every bit of her pain'.
This is when Jesus gave him a message, before waking up again when he was revived by the doctors.
Robert said that Jesus had said: "When you first came before me, you asked if you could go back."
He joked: "I went 'oh he did hear!'," and host Alex Ferrari replied: "I don't think Jesus is hard of hearing."
Robert continued: "He said 'your brain has been destroyed', obviously."
He said that Jesus told him: "I could and would send you back with some caveats. I'll send you back with a miracle that nobody could ever deny, not the doctors, not the nurses, not scientists, nobody could ever deny that I am God and I did this, and there's no question that I'm alive, I'm real, heaven is real."
Robert claimed that Jesus said he would give him a 'new brain' and 'restore your entire memory'.