There was a young man who was loved so much that more than 1,500 people attended his memorial service. 19-year-old Ben Breedlove died Christmas night from a heart attack although he had previously cheated death three times. During the times he cheated death he had some visions On Dec 19th he posted a two-part video on YouTube telling his story about living with his heart condition which is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

In the videos Ben holds up cards which tell his story. 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 it 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.”

He wrote “I cannot even begin to describe the peace, how peaceful it was,” and “I will NEVER forget that feeling or that day.” He underwent surgery May 3, 2009, to insert a pacemaker and the second time Breedlove cheated death, he said, was in the summer of 2011. He went to the hospital for tonsil surgery and ended up going into cardiac arrest. “It was a miracle that they brought me back,” Breedlove wrote. “I was scared to die, but am SO glad I didn’t.”

His third brush with death was the one earlier this month when he passed out at school and awoke surrounded by EMS medics preparing to use shock pads to revive him. “I really thought to myself, this is it. I’m dying,” Breedlove wrote. He recalled a dream or vision where he was in a silent, white room with no walls and he felt “that same peaceful feeling I had when I was 4.”

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Part 1

Part 2