Retiree Bill Bondar says he no longer fears death after being clinically dead for over three minutes from a cardiac arrest. He details his story below Imagine coming home from a band practice and then waking up in the hospital three days later with the doctors telling you that you died from cardiac arrest. Hard to believe, isn’t it? I still have doubts that I am not truly dead but living another life. Maybe life for us all is a train ride and when we die, we are switched to a different track to continue our journey where there is no end. God and religion seem to have no place here. When you get a taste of death, you feel that death is really so simple. You’re here one minute, and gone the next. No regrets, no worries, no missing your family or friends. You’re gone baby, clean and simple. Death is easy - staying alive is hard. Each day that I live now is to its fullest, and if I die again, well, I know now that there is nothing I can really do about it. The last time I was extremely lucky. I had help from the police, EMT’s (emergency medical technicians), doctors and my wife. I know that the odds are against me of ever having them lined up like that again, so why worry? Think about the future but live for today. I now play with a new band and am enjoying life and reflecting my experience to others who want to know the story. As the guys in the band regularly announce to the audience, “Bill was dying to play with us.” Michaela Roser was the victim of a serious car accident in her teens that left her in a coma for two weeks. During that time, she says she had vivid near death and out of body experiences. I grew up a happy and adventurous girl in an extremely small town with a full and exciting life ahead of me. With a world of opportunity to look forward to, there wasn’t much stopping me. That is, until July 4th, 1994, when my family and I were in a serious car accident. I ended up in a coma for fourteen days that nearly took my life. During that period, I was forced to work harder than ever to put myself back together. By the grace of God, I was shown what life and death are all about.