Freddy Vest was on the back of a horse, competing in a calf-roping event in front of a crowd when he suddenly collapsed due to a heart attack. He was dead before he hit the ground.
One moment he was sitting on his horse. The next moment he was somewhere else—somewhere beyond description. He had moved on. Without travel, transport, angelic assistance, or the passage of time—he was with Jesus, where he discovered firsthand that heaven is a real place and God is a real person and that death is not the end but the beginning of true life.

In The Day I Died, Vest touches on the transformation from death to heaven and some of the benefits of finding oneself in that place, including: