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It was a Saturday during the day and I was at school...
First Person Interview as told to Elaine Smith (NDERF Volunteer): Karen's near death experience was in the summer of 1975...
I was in a black space on a black nothing; it was kind of like a path because it was lined with small lights close to ankle height that outlined a 'path'...
Phillip H NDE 3191 Home Classification NDE 1223 Phillip H NDE 3191 Experience Description My two younger brothers, R and H, were traveling with me passing the Farm home, and R said run the stop because the Road had a bump and it was fun to fly...
I awoke around 5:00 am after falling asleep in my lounge chair the night before (very unusual)...
On 12/27/82 I was seeing by a lung specialist...
Pat P NDE 3197 Home Classification NDE 1228 Pat P NDE 3197 Experience Description My first NDE (accidentally, I have had a couple) occurred when I was a child of seven...
I was riding behind a boat on an inflatable tube...
In 1973, at the age of twenty, I was in a serious automobile accident...
Robert O NDE Home Classification NDE 1241 Robert O NDE 3143 Experience Description Was given a blood thinner for a clot, causing atrial fibrillation...
When I was six years old I contracted diphtheria, was taken to hospital where I stopped breathing and died...
I don't remember the accident itself...
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