A woman who attempted suicide as a teen has shared the ‘hideous’ things she witnessed after being taken straight to hell.
Tamara Laroux, now 54 years old, experienced intense feelings of rejection at the age of 15 when her parents divorced. She believed that their separation was somehow her fault.
She took her mother’s 38-caliber gun, aimed it at her heart, pulled the trigger and instantly knew her body was dying.
‘I felt my blood racing through my lungs. Every inch of my body was under death’s grip. I was consumed by darkness and silence,’ Laroux recalled, describing a sensation of moving faster than the speed of light.
She described feeling an explosion inside her body as if ‘someone took acid and poured it over’ all over her.
Even though Laroux felt completely alone, she found herself in the company of countless others who were also in anguish, crying out for a second chance.
According to Laroux, behind the sea of tormented souls was a creature with dragon-like heads upon his body that ‘stood more fierce than anything that the earth has ever seen.’
But then a giant hand ‘that was brighter than any light she had ever seen’ scooped her from the darkness and brought her to heaven, Laroux claimed.
Tamara Laroux, now age 54, was overwhelmed with feelings of rejection at 15 years old after her parents divorced, thinking the separation was about her. She took her mother’s 38-caliber gun, aimed it at her heart, pulled the trigger and instantly knew her body was dying
Scientists are not entirely sure why some people have near-death experiences, but hypothesize that it is brought on my physiological changes in the brain due to extreme stress.
This can cause altered states of consciousness that can manifest as vivid sensory perceptions like seeing bright lights and feeling detached from their body.
Laroux has written a book about her experience and is the co-founder of Life Change International, which provides worldwide humanitarian outreaches.
She has used her near-death experience to help others but still speaks about the horrors she endured as a teenager.
But her struggles started when she was six years old after her parents separated.
Laroux recalled feeling rejection, loneliness and despair, she told CBN.
She and her two sisters lived with their mother, but when her father called he only spoke to her siblings.
‘I just didn’t understand why my father would talk to the others, but not want to talk to me,’ Laroux said.
The pain continued into her teens and in September 1985, she decided it was better not to live than to live with the agony.
Laroux got down on her knees and placed the gun to her head, but then heard a voice telling her to put it on her chest.
While Laroux recalled a feeling of total isolation, she found herself standing among millions of other people who were screaming in agony and begging for another chance
She pulled the trigger, feeling the bullet pierce her body and fell back onto the ground. And then her soul was taken directly to hell.
‘I realized my soul had been transformed into a being of sin and death,’ she said.
Laroux found herself in a fiery pit with a sea of other souls damned for eternity.
‘I remember looking at an individual, I knew everything about them,’ she said.
‘I knew every sin they committed. My knowledge about their life was full. I knew their thoughts and emotions.’
Amid the fire was a ‘gulf’ that separated hell from heaven and as Laroux looked out, she saw Earth as if it was enlarged through a magnifying glass.
As she gazed into the distance, she recalled being lifted out of the fiery pit and taken what she claimed was heaven.
‘The glory there is too exquisite for words,’ she said.
‘The colors were so bright and refreshing….their very sight was rejuvenating and full of energy.
‘There was an overwhelming sense of peace, joy and complete serenity.’
Laroux said she could feel God’s presence and wanted to stay there but was taken back to Earth instead.
She saw herself enter the roof of her home and placed back into her body.
‘I could see and hear again, she said, recalling being able to open her eyes and hear everything around her.
Laroux was rushed to the hospital where doctors said that the bullet should have exploded her heart but missed it by less than one-quarter of an inch.
It has been decades since her suicide attempt, but the experience has led her to become a Bible teacher and published author.
‘I share my experiences openly and honestly to encourage others to live in freedom,’ Laroux wrote on her website.
‘By sharing truth, I have helped millions of people find hope and salvation through Jesus Christ.’
