After being placed on a ventilator for lung failure in 1999, M.K. McDaniel struggled for her life while in a medically induced coma for three weeks. A near death experience can have a lasting effect on the person. In this episode Kathy describes the people she encountered and the things she saw during that out of body experience. After coming back to consciousness, her family members were happy but she was shaken. Fortunately she found hope and understanding at the International Association of Near-Death Studies meetings in Seattle. After associating with like minded people, she published her first book, Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat. It is about her life before, during and after the near death experience. The story is told in uplifting and humorous way while at the same time sending a message about how fragile life is in the material world and that we can have peace and harmony before taking the next journey into the afterlife.