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The Man Has a Near-Death Experience, Discovers the Meaning Behind Life Reviews, and Witnesses Proof of His NDE
The NDE (near-death experience) of Josef Johann Atzmüller
In 1964, Josef Johann Atzmüller attended boarding school in St. Pölten in Lower Austria, about thirty miles from his home.
He was sixteen years old.
One Thursday, Josef felt a sharp, burning pain in his abdomen. But then, it strangely disappeared without any intervention.
The following day, like every Friday, he traveled home to Heiligenblut.
On Sunday evening, as he prepared to return to the boarding school, his mother noticed something wrong. The local doctor thought it was just stomach flu, but his mother refused the simplified diagnosis.
So she insisted that they get a specialist’s opinion at the hospital in Melk.
There, the chief surgeon, who was also the head of the hospital, quickly realized what had really happened.
Josef’s appendix had ruptured three days earlier.
The situation was critical.
The surgeon told them plainly that Josef was not going to survive. Nonetheless, he suggested a new surgical technique to see if a miracle…
