What I offer has nothing to do with religion.
It has to do with the supernatural, which though not as regimented or formal as religion tends to propose similar propositions: There are other planes of existence, there are parts of us that survive death, there are magical beings beyond our senses that manipulate time/fate/the universe or whatnot.
What the are stating is how a person who is blind from birth is able to describe things he/she could not have due to their inability to see; then there are the various descriptions of what they experienced–out of body experience… hallucinations cannot give a mind the ability to witness the material world.
I do not know the specific case you are referring to here, though I do know of ones that sound similar such as people who have “died” on the operating table and been able to talk about what the people around them were doing.
For the above that’s not that difficult to explain. When the body begins to shut down, not everything shuts down at the same time. During the French Terror for instance there was a bizarre phenomenon where recently guillotined heads would continue to blink or even attempt to mouth words for nearly a minute afterwards. Now some might be tempted to think think this was a miracle when it happened to priests, but when it happened to prostitutes serving the aristocracy, revelutionary soldiers and Jacobins? Rather less likely, and what they found out was that some bodily functions still continue.
Now if someone can actually still blink and talk for a few moments after being beheaded, it wasn’t any great suprise for doctors to discover people at deaths door who don’t for instance have a heartbeat can remember stimuli at this time.
In the case of the person who is blind at birth I see a serious flaw; if she was blind from birth how can she describe what she “saw”? How does she know what the color brown looks like to identify she saw that? Something smells fishy about that.
…as for embracing oblivion as a peace measure… thanks, but no.
A peace measure? Goodness. Not in the slightest, it brought me gloom at first; truely did make everything I saw seem colder for a time. But then when I compare the alternative, either roasting in hell or becoming one of the elect who will according to the church fathers not mourn the lost, and instead find pleasure in the screams of the damned; I think non-existance is the better fate for all. To be a barbecue or a stepford wife reprogrammed to have no autonomy or self for all eternity? How lucky that is not the case and I can simply just be me for however long I have.
The closest word to that in the old Norse is “ævi”, or “ever”; though it would be used in reference to the living. The Norse had no concept of forever, “ever after” was the present, and “ever after” did indeed have an ending.
. Start praying to God for the grace of faith.