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Pluma S NDE Home Classification NDE 1440 Pluma S NDE 179 Experience Description My boyfriend at the time got some cocaine, and said I couldn't do any unless I did it like he did, with a needle...
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Decembra B NDE Home Classification NDE 1442 Decembra B NDE 167 Experience Description I was swimming with a friend as a child and I swam too far across a lake to get back...
When I was just three years old I drowned in a pool behind my house...
James G NDE Home Classification NDE 1445 James G NDE 164 Experience Description I was in a coma, gangrene right leg, heart failure, lungs -- pulmonary edema...
I was sitting on my couch and my breathing was cut off...
I was rushed to hospital at 4:00 am with massive pain, really aggressive pain...
Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
I was undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from my right adrenaline gland shortly after my eighteenth birthday...
I exited my body and saw my relatives around my lifeless body...
Richard B NDE Home Classification NDE 1453 Richard B NDE 144 Experience Description I was on my way to work, 1:30 in the afternoon, temperature was 105 degrees, I was riding my motorcycle, car turned at last second, I hit car approximately two feet from fro...
It was May 5th and I was in my private room on the ninth floor of the University of Cincinnati Hospital recovering from a surgery to remove my first and second rib...
Kimberly HA NDE Home Classification NDE 1455 Kimberly HA NDE 133 Experience Description The seizure could've been fatal...
