Near Death Experience
Question
When I had surgery on my shoulder, I was put under anesthesia. I remeber the nurse telling me to close my eyes, and then I remember when I awoke. In between, four two hours, I had dissapperaed. I was gone. And it wasnt' an altered state of conciuosness like sleeping and dreaming, it was 100% not here, not aware. completely gone. If I had never woken up from that deep, dark sleep, I would have died and never realized it. Like the way a person dies from a lethal injection. This experience to me is no personal evidence of the existence of an afterlife. I have read many Torah sources that discuss an afterlife, and can understand an afterlife on an intellectual level. But the one time I was close to death, my neshama was no where to be found. Where was my soul? Where was I?