Ana González: NDE as a Tree Ana Cecilia Gonzalez, attorney, teacher, businesswoman and public speaker, was born with a congenital heart condition doctors said would be fatal by age eight. She had repeated encounters with a "Death Ghost," later found to be a guiding angel, who gifted her childhood with OBEs. Her vision of the tunnel as a Tree of Life is remarkable, as was her cure by two angels. She authored her book, When Life is not Forever, in 2015.