Camille Gent, a Christian minister in Oregon, told the Daily Mail how - during a medical emergency in 2013 - she felt herself descending into hell, where demons crawled on her flesh, clawed at her skin and tormented her with false visions of her family. She describes how she was thrown through multiple worsening realms, each darker than the last, before reaching a fourth level where she confronted Satan himself.
At age 19, Chase Skylar DeMayo had a heart attack when an air bubble accidentally got into his IV at Langley Air Force Base hospital in Virginia, causing his heart to stop for a few minutes. During his near-death experience in 2008, DeMayo said he felt himself float upward, surrounded by light, and entered a vibrant garden with colors brighter than anything on Earth.
'The others are about a specific artist or the history of curating ... [My French publisher Seuil] felt it might be of interest to do a personal book but there was never the time. At least at the beginning of lockdown, before all the Zoom calls started, there was a bit of time! The death of my mother was also an important aspect.'
On July 7, 2025, Lucrecia Dalt's heart stopped. She had suffered a severe epileptic seizure, and eight seconds would pass before it resumed beating. The next day, the Colombian musician released " caes," the third single from her breathtaking new album A Danger to Ourselves -a song that suggests, she says, "that the sublime can be reached through surrendering to the act of falling." For two days after her near-death experience, she soared, so overwhelmed by the beauty of her surroundings that she wondered if she had actually died and was experiencing the afterlife. She hadn't, of course, and the world that wowed her was the same one she occupied before her heart had stopped. She had just surrendered to the fall.
