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I was standing in my friends' doorway, helping them to move a bed...
I was a passenger in an automobile which, due to the driver having a seizure behind the wheel, crashed head on into a tree on the side of the road...
As I said before, we were playing good guys - bad guys...
At the beginning, I was choking...
In 1981, when I was thirty years of age, I underwent major surgery and experienced the following Near Death Experience (NDE...
Charles N NDE Home Classification NDE 2731 Charles N NDE 5223 Experience Description My Visit to HeavenI had a back surgery in which the anesthesiologist gave me too much anesthesia and I died on the operating table...
I was hit by a car and thrown sixty meters from point of impact...
I was four years old and suffering from a progressively worsening life-threatening pneumonia...
I looked clearly at the face of the woman in the approaching car...
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Denise B Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2736 Denise B Probable NDE 5234 Experience Description I was rushed to the hospital for what was determined to be an emergency appendectomy...
I was a life guard in New Jersey...
Linda D NDE Home Classification NDE 2738 Linda D NDE 5238 Experience Description I was walking with a friend after school...
