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Swimming in a pool and suddenly panicked when I could not reach the side of the pool...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
I was given too much gas in the dentist’s office, died, and floated up above my body...
I entered a turn on my motorcycle too fast...
I was in a coma for seven days suffering from encephalitis during this time I had my NDE...
Sheila L Azrael Encounter Home Classification Other 695 Sheila L Azrael Encounter 30906 Experience Description On September 8th, 1999, an online acquaintance, who used the screen name, The Infernal Emissary, sent me a poem he wrote...
Marietta S NDE Home Classification NDE 696 Marietta S NDE 21000 Experience Description I was very young and my brothers and sisters (of which I have seven), all went up into the hayloft to play...
I had been very ill with asthma for several weeks following the death of my father; I was also eighteen weeks pregnant...
Life has been difficult emotionally for some time, several years in fact...
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During a tilt table test my heart stopped for seventeen seconds at the eight minute mark of the test...
I was training a horse and took a fall while jumping a creek and only remember falling but not landing...
I was wounded in Vietnam by a mortar round (another half-inch and I would have been dead)...
