It was 1993. Kathleen Elmore was driving through an intersection and a truck came at her from the left. “That doesn’t look good,” she thought. “Dying does not hurt,” Elmore said as she recounted the experience at the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) conference this year. “That whole immense, huge impact felt like somebody just kind of tipped me on the shoulder, and I went straight up.”









