2. Anita Moorjani
Author and speaker Anita Moorjani slipped into a coma in 2006 after a long battle with advanced lymphatic cancer. Doctors believed she would not survive. Her organs were failing, and her body was shutting down. Yet Moorjani later revealed that during this period, she was fully conscious in a way she had never experienced before. She described floating above her body with a heightened awareness that extended far beyond the hospital room. Unlike normal vision, she perceived everything at once, without needing to turn or focus.
What defined her experience most was the complete absence of fear. All pain vanished instantly. She felt surrounded by unconditional love, a sensation so powerful that it redefined how she understood existence. Moorjani also sensed the presence of her late father, who communicated with her without words. The message was clear: she could choose to return or continue forward. The idea of returning felt almost undesirable because of how peaceful and beautiful death felt to her.
When she eventually regained consciousness, her recovery shocked medical staff. Tumors rapidly shrank, organs began functioning again, and within weeks, she was improving against all odds. Moorjani believes her experience taught her that fear itself plays a role in illness and suffering. To her, dying felt expansive, loving, and freeing. Death was not an ending but a state where pain, anxiety, and limitation simply ceased to exist.
