For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from Africa's interior -- but just barely. Out of the roughly 20 million who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery, half didn't complete the journey to the African coast, most of those dying along the way.
Dr. Michael Reynolds, MD is a Doctor primarily located in South Hill, VA. He has 16 years of experience. His specialties include Family Medicine. Dr. Reynolds is affiliated with VCUHealth Community Memorial Hospital.
In 1991, Atlanta, Ga. resident Pam Reynolds had a near-death experience (NDE) . Reynolds underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm, and the procedure required doctors to drain all the blood from her brain. Reynolds was kept literally brain-dead by the surgical team for a full 45 minutes.Despite being clinically dead, when Reynolds was resuscitated, she described some amazing things.As many as 18 percent of people brought back from death after a heart attack said they'd had a NDE [source: Time ]. While many religious adherents might not be surprised by these accounts, the idea that human consciousness and the body exist distinctly from each other flies in the face of science.