Amy Purdy

It was just like I could feel the skin and everything kind of pull apart.

The pressure, kind of like the tension or whatever.

And I thought I was in heart surgery because my aunt has the same scar and she had heart surgery when she was young.

And I could feel my heart beating in my chest, and I was thinking, okay, he's here to fix my heart.

But anyways, as my heart was beating, it was beating faster and faster and faster, and I felt like I was hanging on by my fingertips, just on a cliff.

Every time my heart hit a beat, I felt like I was going closer and closer to the edge.

I mean, I was absolutely hanging on for dear life.

And then all of a sudden, I remember feeling my last heartbeat.

And it was incredibly powerful and just knocked the breath out of me.

And suddenly, I was in this space, in this dark space.

And I saw a light, but it wasn't a bright light.

It was kind of a dimmed green haze.

But there was just enough of a light to see that there were three silhouettes.

And I didn't recognize these silhouettes.

They're very basic.

You know, there wasn't any details, except I could see their hands moving.

Going like this, like in a kind of come here motion.

And they were saying to me, you can come with us or you can stay.

And I remember getting so frustrated and thinking...

I haven't lived my life yet.