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What happens after a person dies remains a mystery - from religion, science and philosophy - it is one of humanity's great unanswered questions.

But some survivors of near-death experiences might provide some fascinating insight into what we can expect on the flip-side of life. 

From the seeing the light at the end of the  tunnel, floating above hillsides, hallucinations and demonic renditions of Rhianna's music in hell, people who have come back from the brink have revealed all sorts of strange answers to what dying is really like.

Gerald Johnson: 'There was a section in hell where music was playing' 

Pastor Gerald Johnson, 49, of Texas, said Rihanna's hit song 'Umbrella' echoed through the gates of hell during his bizarre visit to purgatory.

Mr Johnson said: 'It just blew me away, it still baffles me to this day. There was a section in Hell where music was playing. 

'It was the same music we hear on the Earth, but opposed to entertainers singing it, demons were singing it. 

'While up here, you can listen to music to get over a breakup like 'Don't Worry Be Happy' or 'Umbrella', but down there every lyric to every song is to torment you.'

He took to TikTok to explain his 2016 journey into the abyss which he said he 'wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.'   

As well as being forced to listen to fan-favorite hits in the fiery inferno, he also claimed to have witnessed the gruesome scene of a man being burned alive. 

'The things that I saw were indescribable, it makes me emotional,' he said.

'His eyes were bulging and worse than that, he was wearing chains on his neck... it was a demon holding the chain.'

In his viral clip the pastor warned others how to avoid the same hellish fate as he claims it is now clear to him why he was originally doomed. 

'The root of it is that although I did good and gave a lot to people, the thing that I had in my heart was unforgiveness towards people that have done me wrong,' he said. 

'That's my experience with Hell, it is a real place. God doesn't send people to Hell, people send themselves to Hell.'

Duncan Seth-Smith: 'I remember floating on a hill' 

Duncan Seth-Smith, 67, from Lincolnshire, has a vivid memory of floating over a hill when he suffered a cardiac arrest on Boxing Day 2005.

Mr Seth-Smith, aged 50 at the time, recalled hearing doctors getting the defibrillator ready while unconscious in hospital, with one saying 'again' as he got 'zapped'.

He was in the ICU for four days and just before being allowed home, he felt dizzy and collapsed, needing CPR again after suffering another cardiac arrest.

Recalling his second ordeal, Mr Seth-Smith said: 'I have a vivid memory of floating over a local hill and looking down at people sledging. 

'It was a local country hillside but not known for sledging and not somewhere I had spent any time apart from driving by. At the time of the cardiac arrest there was no snow about.

'I woke up in bed with a cut face where I had hit a trolley/bed when I passed out. The nurses said it took three defibrillator shocks to get my heart started and the rhythm back. 

'That is all I can remember, apart from asking my wife if it was snowing, to which she replied no.'

Mr Seth-Smith had three shocks from a defibrillator and later had an implantable cardioverter

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