What happens after we die remains one of humanity's most enduring questions, but one man who came perilously close to death says he caught a glimpse of what lies beyond and returned to tell the story."I had a ruptured appendix for five days before doctors caught it, and when I was in that emergency surgery, I lifted out of my body and I looked down and I could see the doctors — they were working on me," Colton Burpo, the central figure behind "Heaven Is for Real," told the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast.Burpo was just three years old when the medical emergency landed him on the operating table.'BLIND SIDE' STAR QUINTON AARON SAYS HE 'SAW JESUS' WHILE IN A COMA AFTER NEAR-FATAL STROKEColton Burpo, who inspired the story behind "Heaven is for Real," sits down with Hannity on the latest episode of his podcast.(Hang Out With Sean Hannity/Screengrab)What he says happened during the surgery would later inspire a bestselling book and major motion picture.Seated with Hannity, researcher John Burke and fellow near-death experience survivor Randy Kay, Burpo recalled watching the operation from outside his body and seeing his parents in separate rooms."My mom, she was in one room, she talking on the phone, praying with people.
My dad, he was in another room, and he was praying very loudly at God," Burpo said.Then he found himself somewhere else entirely."I was sitting on Jesus's lap, so I wasn't in heaven yet, but I was with Jesus, and he had some angels sing to me to calm me down," he recalled.COUNTRY SINGER DRAKE WHITE DESCRIBES ‘GUNSHOT’ MOMENT HIS BRAIN RUPTURED MID-CONCERT: ‘I KNEW I WAS DYING’Subscribe to "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" now on YouTube and Spotify.(FOX News Media)Though Burpo recounted the angels singing songs familiar to his frightened 3-year-old-self, including "Jesus Loves Me" and "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho," one of his requests apparently didn't make the heavenly playlist."I did request for them to sing 'We Will Rock You' by Q...