I've heard stories of people who were able to negotiate a return back to their bodies. Does this really happen? I'm not talking about near death experiences, where people are told that it's not their time, but about people actually choosing to go back when they would have otherwise stayed dead. Yes, this can happen, but it is fairly rare. As you say above, in most near death experiences the experiencer loses all fear and becomes more than willing to enter the afterlife, only to be ...