9 Living Musicians Who Literally Came Back After Death
8. Dave Gahan - Depeche Mode
The first thing that you'll realize after reading about all of the people who went to "the other side" and came back to tell the tale is how varied their opinions are on the afterlife. For example, some will latch onto scientific explanations for why they saw a white light or felt a sudden warmth over their bodies. Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode, is not one of those people. After overdosing on a speedball at a hotel in Los Angeles, Gahan claims he saw his death scene being acted out below his floating consciousness.
"The first thing I realised in the hospital was that I exited my body. I was floating underneath the ceiling and could observe exactly what was happening underneath me: Paramedics were running around my body and tried to save me. I screamed that I wasnt actually lying down there but above them."
So..that's something. Apparently Gahan is a big fan of ghosts or, at the very least, open to the possibility that he was one for a brief moment.
"I believe it was my soul screaming, which had already left my body and became a witness of what happened to my body. At that point I was clinically dead, my heart wasn't beating. These seconds seemed like hours to me. And suddenly, there was a complete, frightening darkness around me. As if someone had turned off the light."
Look, it's perfectly reasonable for a creative person--especially one who makes his living as a poet for a band who released an album called Songs of Faith and Devotion--to believe in celestial bodies and outer body experiences. But then Gahan goes on to explain how his then-girlfriend physically pulled his ghost back into his human meat suit. That part's a little more...curious.
