Jane Falls 1,000' Base Jumping - NDE Follows

Jane Falls 1,000' Base Jumping - NDE Follows

July 13, 2026 · 42 min · Season 5 · Episode 628

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Jane Osborne shares her harrowing base jumping accident and the profound Near Death Experience that followed.

In this gripping episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett sits down with Jane Osborne, a former outdoor pursuits instructor from Derbyshire, England, to unpack a base jumping accident that killed her. What began as a routine flight to capture aerial photography turned catastrophic when her emergency parachute malfunctioned and deployed alongside her main chute at 1,500 feet, sending her plummeting and slamming into the rocky terrain of Kat's Tor. ___________________ Birch Natural Mattresses Podcast Listeners Receive 27% OFF BirchLiving.com/Roundtrip ____________________ Jane recounts the harrowing physical toll in visceral detail — broken bones throughout her body, a crushed spine, and a neck broken in two places — along with a devastating prognosis from doctors that she would never walk again. It's a survival story almost too intense to believe, setting the stage for the extraordinary NDE experience that followed. What elevates this conversation beyond a simple accident story is Jane's account of her Near Death Experience while lying in her hospital bed, feeling trapped in what she calls a "body coffin." After crying out for help, she describes floating above her own body…

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