The youngest member of Joe Biden’s extended family believes he went to heaven in 1999 when he “drowned” kayaking – and said God’s pearly gates were so amazing he “didn’t want to come back to earth”. President Joe Biden’s granddaughter – Hunter’s daughter – Naomi Biden is set to marry Peter Neill, whose mother Dr. Mary S. Neal is the author of “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of her Death, Heaven, Angels and Life Again.” The No. 1 best-seller published in 2011 tells the story of Neal who “dies” and comes back to life while kayaking a waterfall on the Fuy River in Chile. Neil writes that he was “pinned by the waterfall” and tried to escape, but the water was too strong. “When I no longer felt myself trying to breathe, I assumed I was going to die,” he wrote in a chapter titled “Death on the River.” The mum said the death made her feel “strangely happy”. As the other people on the mission rushed to find and save her, Neil said she went to heaven. Naomi Biden and fiancé Peter Neal are getting married Sunday at the White House. Photo by Mary Kouw/CBS via Getty Images “I felt like I had finally shed my heavy outer layer, setting my soul free. I got up and walked out of the river, and when my soul broke the surface of the water, I met a group of fifteen to twenty souls (human spirits sent from God), who greeted me with the most overwhelming joy I have ever experienced and could ever experience I can imagine”. Neal said she was led into a “great and brilliant hall”, where she was so amazed by the beauty that she did not want to return to Earth. Dr. Mary C. Neal wrote a best-selling book about the miraculous journey to heaven. Mary Neal/Facebook “Don’t get me wrong… I have been very blessed in my life and have experienced great joy and love here on earth. I love my husband and I love each of my children with great intensity and that love is reciprocated. It’s just that God’s world is exponentially more colorful and intense,” he said. “I experienced paradise firsthand after my kayaking accident. The heaven I saw was so pure, full of love and wonderful that I did not want to return to earth.” Meanwhile, as the people back in the Chili River tried to save her life on land, Neal said he was disturbed. The rescuers “begged me to come back and take a breath, I felt compelled to return to my body and take another breath before returning to my journey,” he wrote. “This got tiresome and I got quite irritated with them calling me repeatedly. “I knew they didn’t understand what was going on, but it bothered me that they wouldn’t let me go,” she said of her wish to die. Neal, a devout Christian, is a UCLA-trained orthopedic surgeon and was living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at the time of the incident. She said despite her medical training, she is sure she was dead and came back to life thanks to God. “I believe Jesus held me, comforted me and reassured me when I was drowning,” she said – but it wasn’t her time to go to heaven after all. “To Heaven and Back” by Dr. Mary C. Neal became a New York Times bestseller.WaterBrook After being revived, Neil said he was seriously injured and had to go out on the street. It was then that “several young Chilean men materialized out of nowhere,” who he later realized were “angels by the river.” “These young men were nowhere to be found” after her accident, she writes, “and the people from the village had no idea who they could be.” Neal returned to Wyoming after the incident and doctors at the hospital told her husband she would likely die. However, her community prayed for her and she persevered. Neal went on to write her memoirs and a second book titled 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Death Taught Me How to Live a Life of Joy. He also appeared on the Netflix show “Surviving Death.” He gave a Ted Talk about going to heaven and back, but was later flagged by the organization who claimed it “seems to be outside of TEDx’s curation guidelines.” “This speech represents only the personal experiences of the speaker. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers,” the team explained. Neal is sure to be at the wedding Saturday on the South Lawn of the White House. Naomi Biden, 28, is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle. Her parents divorced in 2017. She was named after the president’s first-born daughter, who died tragically along with Biden’s first wife, Neila, in a car accident in 1972. She and her future husband are both lawyers and live in the White House.
