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I was in bed at night...
I was having a baby and the doctor could not stop the bleeding...
We had a large tank of helium at work to inflate balloons for sales and other special events...
I had never heard of NDEs or OBEs when this happened to me...
When I was six years old I contracted diphtheria, was taken to hospital where I stopped breathing and died...
When I was six, my mother gave me chewable children's aspirin due to a fever...
After 12:00 midnight I was taken to the operating room and put under anesthesia...
A car accident...
I was a young mother of three small children and was in the hospital for a 'D and C' (scraping of the uterus) under general anesthetic...
It was around the first of June in 1966 that I took a lethal dose of Phenobarbital, then went to sleep reading my ex-husband's grandmother's Bible that she willed to me after she died three month's earlier...
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I do not know if my experience fits any of the other choices...
In the sixth month of my pregnancy, I KNEW that something was going to go wrong...
