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I was a recruit going through training for the Michigan State Police...
This is my grandmother's story, passed down to my mother, and then to me...
At the beginning, I was choking...
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...
I was four years old and suffering from a progressively worsening life-threatening pneumonia...
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...
Edward S NDE Home Classification NDE 2739 Edward S NDE 5239 Experience Description I knew I was in a great deal of trouble, and that something had to be done...
