Teen Posts Near Death Experience Videos Before Dying On Christmas [VIDEO]
Texas Teen Ben Breedlove Posted Powerful Videos Before Christmas Death
A Texas teenager who said he cheated death three times despite a dangerous heart condition died Christmas night from a heart attack, but not before posting a two-part video on YouTube telling his story and describing a series of powerful visions.
In the videos that have since gone viral, 18-year-old Ben Breedlove of Austin can be seen silently sitting in a room and using handwritten note cards to tell his story. The teen suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which one part of the heart is thicker than the other parts, making it difficult for the heart to pump blood.
He described cheating death three times.
The most recent scare was Dec. 6, when he passed out at school and awoke surrounded by EMS medics preparing to use shock pads to revive him.
He posted a two-part video Dec. 18 titled "This is my story." One week later, on Christmas night, he suffered a heart attack and died. As of this afternoon, the first video had been viewed online more than 476,000 times.
"It was obvious to all of us that knew him that he knew what he was doing when he made that video," close family-friend Pam Kohler said. "There are times that [the family is] overwhelmed by the pain and the loss of Ben, but then it's replaced with knowing that he was at peace with what was going to happen."
Kohler said Breedlove loved coming to her house in the country where he taught her how to make and post YouTube videos for her husband's business and loved going hunting with him.
He had two popular YouTube channels, "BreedloveTV" and "OurAdvice4You," on which he would talk about his own life as well as dishing out relationship advice for his peers. Facebook and YouTube have been inundated with tributes to Breedlove.
"When you think of Ben, you can't help but smile," Kohler said. "He was curious, creative. You never knew what he was up to. He was always full of surprises. We look on all of it as a gift from God through Ben."
Kohler and her husband, Mark Kohler, were driving to the Breedlove home Christmas when they first realized something might be wrong.
"We were going over to share Christmas dinner with them that night and on our way over there, a police car passed us with sirens on," Kohler said. "My husband said, 'Start praying because it could be Ben.'"
When they arrived at the house, they saw ambulances and fire trucks. Breedlove had had a heart attack and medics were trying to revive him. He made it to the hospital, but died there.
At this point, Kohler said the family did not know about Breedlove's last videos. He had shared his visions with his sister, but no one had seen the videos.
He said in the video, through note cards, that the first time he cheated death was when he was 4 and described an experience he had in the hospital as he was being wheeled on a stretcher.
"There was this big bright light above me ... I couldn't make out what is was because it was so bright. I told my mom, 'Look at the bright light' and pointed up. She said she didn't see anything," Breedlove wrote. "There were no lights on in this hall. I couldn't take my eyes off it. And I couldn't help but smile. I had no worries at all, like nothing else in the world mattered."
As Breedlove held up each card telling the story, he alternated serious looks with broad smiles. "I cannot even begin to describe the peace, how peaceful it was," he wrote. "I will NEVER forget that feeling or that day.
"Because of the experiences he'd had, he was ready and he was prepared. He really wanted to know that peace again. He was facing more hospital stays and he was tired of it," Kohler said. "He wanted [his family] to know that he wasn't scared and was looking forward to returning to that place."
In the videos, Breedlove went through the details of his journey.
saw some sad RIP tweets for him on Twitter - i just assumed it was some young celeb actor or musician I wasn't familiar with.
18 years, so unfair :(
i'd love to believe these type of visions and near death experiences are supernatural but they're pretty explainable and 99.9999999999999999999999999999% sure they have nothing to do with an afterlife.
Mutt
12-29-2011 02:46 PM
i wonder why no heart transplant for him :(
acrylix
12-29-2011 02:47 PM
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ron paul wont shake the hands of homosexuals.
Yes, you can almost smell the fear as he sits next to his openly gay campaign manager during the 2007/2008 election:
but wont share the same washroom as him. sounds like a nice guy.
acrylix
12-29-2011 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by glamourmodels
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A Texas teenager who said he cheated death three times despite a dangerous heart condition died Christmas night from a heart attack, but not before posting a two-part video on YouTube telling his story and describing a series of powerful visions.
In the videos that have since gone viral, 18-year-old Ben Breedlove of Austin can be seen silently sitting in a room and using handwritten note cards to tell his story. The teen suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which one part of the heart is thicker than the other parts, making it difficult for the heart to pump blood.
Sad story about this kid. Rest in peace.
adendreams
12-29-2011 03:03 PM
heavy...inspirational
we are all going there, might as well embrace it.
halfpint
12-29-2011 04:25 PM
These kind of storys always make me thankfull for what I have got, and had out of life
RIP Ben
_Richard_
12-29-2011 05:18 PM
rest well
The Heron
12-29-2011 05:32 PM
I gave up watching the first one, the cards were hard to read and it was pretty boring. Seeing a light is caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, not real soothing if you ask me when I see the light I'm gonna be pissed the nurses aren't working harder!
bloggingseo
12-29-2011 06:50 PM
What an awesome kid! Thanks for posting this!
adulttemplatestudio
12-29-2011 09:52 PM
Very sad!
Rest is peace mate.
glamourmodels
12-30-2011 02:01 AM
You posit that as though it were scientific fact when it is a theory based on conjecture and nothing more.
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Other possible explanations are a lack of oxygen in the brain, or too much carbon dioxide. But these would not explain why some patients are able to give full and cogent reports of things that went on around them during their NDE. Cardiologist Dr. Michael Sabom has reported one patient who, while having a NDE, watched his doctor perform a blood test that revealed both high oxygen and low carbon dioxide. Comparisons between NDEs and hallucinations produced by an oxygen-starved brain show that the latter are chaotic and much more similar to psychotic hallucinations. Confusion, disorientation, and fear are the typical characteristics, compared with the tranquility, calm, and sense of order of a NDE. There are some features in common: a sense of well-being and power, and themes of death and dying. But people who have experienced both at different times say that there is an unmistakable difference.
Hallucinations, whether deliberately drug-induced, the result of medication, or caused by oxygen deprivation, almost always take place while the subject is awake and conscious, whereas NDEs happen during unconsciousness, sometimes when the subject is so close to death that no record of brain activity is recorded on an electroencephalograph, the machine that monitors brain waves. Also, the medical conditions that take subjects to the brink of death, and to having a NDE, do not necessarily include oxygen-deprivation, or any medication. This is particularly true of accident victims. NDEs appear to occur at the moment when the threat of death occurs, not necessarily at the time, maybe hours later, when death is close enough to be starving the brain of oxygen.
The simplest problem with lack of oxygen as a theory is that there have been many NDEs reported in subjects who could not have had lower than normal oxygen levels. This is particularly true in the case of people who have reported having the experience just before a major accident. In these cases the experience may typically occur just a few instances before they actually have the accident which means that they could not have had a lack of oxygen at the time of the experience as there had not yet been any physical damage.
Another argument against the theory of a lack of oxygen comes from clinical medical practice. In hospitals it is very common to see patients suffering with the effects of reduced oxygen levels. This may occur due to many illnesses such as severe asthma or heart failure. In such cases when the levels of oxygen become reduced a clinical state known as an 'acute confusional state' develops which is very different to the 'near death experience'. In this condition individuals have 'clouding of consciousness' with highly confused and fragmented thought processes with little or no memory recall. Such experiences are not universal and tend to be different from individual to individual. If NDEs occurred as a result of a lack of oxygen to the brain then one would expect the hospital patients who suffer with a lack of oxygen either acutely or chronically to describe seeing some of the features of a NDE. However in clinical practice patients' with a lack of oxygen do not report seeing a light, a tunnel or describe the typical features of a NDE.
I gave up watching the first one, the cards were hard to read and it was pretty boring. Seeing a light is caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, not real soothing if you ask me when I see the light I'm gonna be pissed the nurses aren't working harder!
glamourmodels
12-30-2011 03:03 AM
Not sure. If anyone deserved it this kid did. At 2:48 in the first video he pulls down his shirt and you can see the scar from a pacemaker implant. Sickening that some war criminal like Cheney can get some advanced tech and now says he wants a new heart, but this kid cant get one. Shows you how truly fucked up this world is.
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i wonder why no heart transplant for him :(
JFK
12-30-2011 03:11 AM
Rip.................
IllTestYourGirls
12-30-2011 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by porno jew
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ron paul wont shake the hands of homosexuals.
Yeah but he will endorse and fund raise for an openly gay politician :1orglaugh
The campaign took place during the period that, according to Kirchick, "Ron Paul" was making derogatory, anti-gay remarks in "his" newsletters. As it happens, I was running as an openly-gay candidate for the Virginia General Assembly. (It was my second run for that office after a previous attempt in a special election in January 1991. The same district currently has an openly-gay Democrat representing it in Richmond.)
During that 1993 campaign, Ron Paul issued a letter on my behalf, soliciting funds from libertarians and votes from constituents. (We sent the letter to both groups.) Dr. Paul (then a former Congressman) was aware I was running as an openly-gay candidate and he raised no questions, concerns, or objections. I hardly think a homophobic bigot would have sent out a fundraising letter over his own signature, endorsing (as the Washington Times stylebook would have it) an "avowed homosexual" for public office.
:1orglaugh
bronco67
12-30-2011 08:15 AM
Near death experience is a release of chemicals from the brain that gives you a nice trip. When the body recovers, and consciousness is regained -- the person is left with the illusion that they saw heaven, or whatever.
That's my theory, anyway.
Coup
12-30-2011 09:21 AM
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Yes, you can almost smell the fear as he sits next to his openly gay campaign manager during the 2007/2008 election:
Nice guy DR ron paul is for standing by and letting his gay campaign manager die
DWB
12-30-2011 10:53 AM
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Nice guy DR ron paul is for standing by and letting his gay campaign manager die
He is a gynecologist. What should he have done, stuck a finger in the guys vagina?
CaptainHowdy
12-30-2011 11:32 AM
That's obscurantist ...
brassmonkey
12-30-2011 11:36 AM
saw yesterday yeah at least he got to say good bye
glamourmodels
12-30-2011 02:56 PM
If that makes you feel better...
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Originally Posted by bronco67
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Near death experience is a release of chemicals from the brain that gives you a nice trip. When the body recovers, and consciousness is regained -- the person is left with the illusion that they saw heaven, or whatever.
That's my theory, anyway.
glamourmodels
12-31-2011 01:11 AM
More than 1,500 people attended a memorial service for Texas teenager Ben Breedlove, whose YouTube video about life with a heart condition and brushes with death have become an international viral sensation.
