I feel lucky to have had a near death experience. Although I had already spent several years deliberately leaving my body and travelling on other planes or dimensions, the NDE was slightly different, although still somewhat the same. Personally I don't even look at it as life after death, just a continuation of life and a release from the constrictions of this dimension.
I definitely did not want to come back but was sent back for some reason so here I am. I died from loss of blood in childbirth and was not even close to a hospital or doctor. To me it seemed like a million years or no time at all that I was gone, since time is not a factor. After losing physical consciousness I was immediately among a group of conscious beings that I thought of as the "bubble people" (which sounds kind of silly to me now). We were amorphous balls of light and energy with total telepathy and merging ability, although still somewhat separate should we choose to be so.
When I was told that I was going back I remember saying NO NO, I don't WANT to go back!!

But sure enough, I was booted out. I awoke in the car about half way to the hospital, which was an hour away, laughing like a maniac. I laughed all the way through my examination, I laughed when they couldn't get blood because I had lost so much. I laughed when I woke up from passing out every time I sat up, and I really laughed when they told me I couldn't leave the hospital after getting a few units of blood. I was told I would have to stay for observation. That was funny.
So I left (my husband informed them that when I said I was leaving there would be no stopping me). It was truly a blissful experience and when I'm in bliss I have a tendency to laugh a lot! By the way, my baby was fine, we didn't admit her to the hospital, and she is now about to have her first child at 24 years old.
In leaving my body consciously I travel a lot more and seem to have more control than with the NDE, also most of the other consciousnesses, no matter how full of light and love, all have an agenda of one kind or another. It might be a very WONDERFUL agenda, but still an agenda. Perhaps the place I went to in the NDE was a higher vibrational dimension where little activity was going on, just a lot of bliss. Maybe if I had really died, and not returned, it would have been a different experience, but I won't know that until it happens. I am looking forward to it!
Nancy