Woman DIES IN CRASH, MEETS GOD & Returns With POWERFUL TRUTH About Life (NDE) with Julie Papievis

Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.

Julie Papievis 0:08
I was born and raised Catholic. I remember making my first communion, and that was like a big celebration with family and friends the first communion. I was able to talk at the church and read on one of the readings, and that was so exciting for me. I love that kind of thing. And then my confirmation, I always have loved the Holy Spirit. I've always had such a connection I felt to the Holy Spirit, because it's the living spirit, and so I've always felt very connected to that. I was living a shopping mall. I just gotten home from a trip with a girlfriend from Cancun. We had a really nice time. And, um, I got home the day before Sunday, and then Monday, I went to work. I don't have any memory of the time at work, but, um, after work, I went to get some moisturizer for my for my son. That again down at Cancun, and I was leaving the shopping mall, and a young man who recently had gotten his license, was speeding, going over 50 miles an hour in a 35 mile an hour zone, and he was distracted and ran the red light and nailed me right in my driver's door. I was a little sports car, and he was in a bigger, older car, and at 50 miles an hour, he hit me in the force of his car hitting mine at 50 miles an hour, twisted my head around on the brain stem, and last year, I suffered most of it. But there was an off duty paramedic who was at the scene. He was from another town, the next town over, getting a tire fixed, but I guess they all have radios that communicate with each other, and there was another fire station right down the street, and so he called them, and he told them to bring the jaws of life because my car was so crushed, and saved time to be able to get me out. And he got to my car first, and he broke the back window and got behind me and lifted my head to serve an airway so I didn't lose oxygen going to my brain. And that really was so helpful. And then the paramedics were there, you know, again, right down the street. He called them right away. So three minutes they were full on me. I mean, they were quick. 14 minutes door to door from the hospital, from getting the call. Yeah. I mean, amazing. First responders, amazing. And they when, when they got to me, paramedic wagon, I already did not have a blood pressure, and so my body, like depleted, lose all control of all your body, bodily functions in the ambulance and everything. And because I didn't have any blood pressure, they knew that there was they needed to have any eg tests done in my brain to determine life or death status. And so they call ahead, always the hospitals to let them know what they're getting. And so they called to have a neurosurgeon waiting, and he was waiting, and he did meet eg on my brain, and it was shown that I did not have enough brain activity to keep me alive. So in most days, I could have been legally declared dead. But in Illinois, there's a law that your next of kin, your family member and caregiver or someone, he has to be contacted before you can be legally declared dead. So they were forced to put me on life support, and they called my mom and dad to come in and make the decision to keep me out or take me off. And we recently lost my dad to cancer, and this oncologist said, I know this diagnosis was the worst day of your life. And my dad said, No, getting the call about her crash was the worst day of my life. I mean, could make me cry right now, it's just, you know, I'm not a parent. I know you are, and I just can't imagine anything more devastating than to get that. And then, then they got pulled aside by a chapel when they went into the hospital, a doctor and a nurse, they were told that 96% of people with my injury die within the first 24 hours, and the 4% of people live live semi vegetatively, like in a nursing home, but my parents were going to get me cared for at home. They had made that decision, if I had made it past the first night, I guess all of a sudden a priest came to give me last rites, and my parents hadn't called our parish, and so they just really did not think that's when they I think they was they knew that it was that serious. I don't think it really hits people initially. It's too much information coming at them, and that's why, when they say that most people die, 96% of people die with my injury in the first 24 hours. I did die in those first 24 hours, and but I remained in a coma for six weeks, and my parents got me on life support and kept fighting for they, you know, my dad said I kept seeing they wanted to put me into a nursing home after a month, and they were giving them no hope, because it was brain stem. Was mostly my injuries. So, you know, that's your involuntary functions in your body. And so my dad said, No, we're not going to put her in a nursing home. We're going to put her in a coma stimulation program to give her a chance to wake up, and we're just going to give her every chance to try and get better. Last thing I remember when I got home like it was Mother's Day, when I got home from like, trip to Cancun and my girlfriend's husband. Then I dropped us off at my parents house, because it was Mother's Day, and my brother drove me home, and we were talking about my trip, and that's last memory I had when he dropped me off the night before. So then it was Sunday night, so I So what my neurosurgeon is told me, you remember in sleep wake cycles. So the last thing I would remember is before I went to sleep, and you won't remember Monday at work. And I don't I knew I was there because I was dead, and no floors or ceilings just open and the walls except this very narrow aisle way to the left hand side. And I remember thinking, why did God make the aisle way so narrow? And so the next thing I knew, I was before my two deceased grandmothers, and I feel like it really was not my deceased grandmothers. I feel like it was God and the Holy Spirit, because my one grandmother did not speak, and my other grandmother, it was like her eyes were these tunnels of blue light. We all had blue eyes, and she didn't actually speak words, but I couldn't take my eyes off her eyes, and I was happy to see them. And I said, Okay, come on, girls, let's go, like, down the aisle way that we're gonna go together. And my grandmother said, you have to go back. You can't go with us. And I said, Well, I can't go back because I'm not physically okay. I was pointing to my left side. It was paralyzed. And how I knew that I was paralyzed, no idea. And with again, these endless tunnels of blue light, it was just like thoughts that were like conveyed to me, not words, but it was like said that your body will heal. And then I just felt like I was wrapped in a big, warm blanket, like by the Holy Spirit. And I felt like everything was gonna be okay, and I was protected. And then she said, go back and be happy. And the next memory I had was waking up from the coma at the rehab hospital. Six weeks later, another gentleman was who's done a lot of work with near death studies. He said he started laughing, and he said, I have never seen God or the Holy Spirit show up in grandmothers and other people that he is like, you know, and, and I said it was just the oddest thing. It really wasn't like my grandmother's. It was just the form of them. And it was perfect, because, you know, who more would I feel more comfortable with? And I was so close to them, and it was wonderful to see them and for them to greet me, and I would have been happy to go with them, and but for me, it was it just was so amazing that when I first got there and I knew I was dead, it's a perfect piece that you'll never be able to feel here on Earth. It's just such perfection. I don't know how it could have been more perfect, because when I woke up from the coma. I was totally paralyzed in my left side, couldn't see, couldn't talk. I mean, it was bad. I was, yeah, in diapers, fed through G Tube. I mean, it was the whole nine, and it was bad. God, how could I remember my experience in heaven? And then I was like, How could you leave me in a body like this, that I can't do anything for myself, like, I couldn't even communicate. I figured out how to press like my right hand that wasn't paralyzed to my face to be able to say like yes and no. It's just like my voice box was partially paralyzed. So that's why I couldn't really speak like sentences, until they did some voice back surgeries, and I never had any idea how much your brain stem controls and what it all does. I just felt like I couldn't believe that he left me, you're in the body. And the fact that after I woke up, two weeks afterwards, I started, I said to my dad, okay, I think I want to start walking. And the nurses were like, Yeah, you're paralyzing. And I'm like, I want to try. And we got in trouble. My dad and I from lenders is because he was like, my dad was a big man over six, six and a big dude, and so he picked me up on the back of my scrubs, and he was like, okay, she wants to try and walk. And he was really holding me, but he's like, he wanted me to feel like I was doing something and that I wanted to do. And they were like, you can't be doing that kind of thing. She has to be in a wheelchair when she's here. And I started getting better so quickly. And everybody kept saying to me, you know, people he had, people hadn't seen in the hospital system, such a severe brain stem injury, and a person who had been deceased actually wake up and actually start to recover to the extent that I did, and then do a triathlon 10 years ago, giving good love and doing work that's meaningful and just help for my friends and family. It's really nothing more than that. It's pretty simplistic. I just really, I'm just so fortunate to live every day, usually very healthy, and I swim into the triathlon, and I still be able to do those kinds of things. And I've met a wonderful man in my life, and so that's wonderful, and I have a wonderful family and good friends, and so I think all of that is so important definition he's having. Patient. There's really, like, no definition. You know, I've said this to people before, so I noticed when I speak to kids or to people who are very old, so people who have either just come from God or just going back, or will be just going back to God, are the people who really get this. And I just really think that is what is so important tell people that, you know, people were just coming from God, and people are just going to get what they get. I just want other people to be able to get and I want, I want to give that understanding to other people who might not have that understanding through my story. And I just feel like there's a whole middle of population of us, and you know, myself included, before I gave my injury in that, and we're all living our own lives, doing our own thing. And I think that we get away from that, and I think that to be able to bring that story to people who are all in the middle, I think, is important.