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Kelly C NDEs Home Classification NDE 3274 Kelly C NDEs 6611 Experience Description The first experience was in 1995...
I was a young street racer...
Sunday evening my wife and I were getting ready to watch a video when she said I slumped over and my heart stopped...
I don't remember how I got there, but I ended up in a room that was like a waiting room...
Sheryl NDE Home Classification NDE 3278 Sheryl NDE 6615 Experience Description At the time I was twenty-two years old and was struggling to forge my way through college...
I was passing through a bright light...
I have no direct recall of the death during the surgery, but afterwards while recovering in the hospital ward I was haunted by an image and memory that I tried to capture in a drawing with color crayons...
My daughter was born by natural childbirth in the hospital operating room...
Thomas A ICU Home Classification ICU 3284 Thomas A ICU 6561 Experience Description 6561 I was raised in church and I know I have failed God a lot of my life, but I always did want to serve God...
I broke my back about six years ago in a skydiving accident...
Janie Anesthesia Experience Home Classification Anesthesia 3287 Janie Anesthesia Experience 6631 Experience Description I was having my tonsils out and I woke up in a theater, feeling myself drop my Rupert Bear cuddly toy...
