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I went into labor and then had to have an emergency cesarean section...
Early Native American NDEs Home Classification NDE 2713 Early Native American NDEs 16038 Experience Description Contributed by Lee Miller...
Marie C NDE Home Classification NDE 2714 Marie C NDE 5117 Experience Description I was eight and a half years old and was sick with viral hepatitis...
Dale T NDE Home Classification NDE 2716 Dale T NDE 5198 Experience Description It was about 55 years ago, and I was around 6 years old...
Vera G NDE Home Classification NDE 2717 Vera G NDE 5201 Experience Description My friend and I went out for a run in the morning, but we only ran one block - just up to her house...
I found myself entering an old cathedral and I noticed that it had no electric lights, nor burning candles, to illuminate the very large space within...
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...
I had been in cardiac arrest for eighteen minutes...
I overdosed on pain meds and was dead for several minutes...
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...
