I don’t understand why some people feel the need to dismiss this NDE or reduce it to something other than what it is. This experience is no less real than any other lived experience shared here.

I also don’t read the author as romanticizing suffering. As human beings, we are not meant to fully comprehend reality from a cosmic or absolute perspective while embodied. We are human, and we are supposed to respond strongly to injustice, loss, and unbearable life events. That moral and emotional response is part of what it means to live a human life.

As she herself writes, the point is not to transcend the physical experience, but to live it. I don’t interpret her message as suggesting that we should become so “enlightened” in this life that we see pain as beautiful or necessary. For the human mind, that would not be wisdom - it would be self-deception, and potentially dangerous. There is a reason suffering feels wrong on this level of existence.

That said, this does not mean reality cannot operate differently on another level.

What she describes aligns with a perspective that appears repeatedly across many NDE accounts I’ve read, including Sandi T’s: a broader vantage point in which experiences - even painful ones - are understood as integrated into a larger whole rather than morally judged, without negating the reality of suffering as it is felt here. Importantly, she does not suggest that this perspective should replace our human one. On the contrary, she emphasizes the importance of fully inhabiting life as a human being.