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I was twelve years old when I had my near death experience...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
I wrote this in my journal a few months later; because I was afraid I would 'lose it' as one loses a dream...
Soledad NDE Home Classification NDE 2197 Soledad NDE 4547 Experience Description After an endless period of suffering I lost consciousness, and then something awakened me...
First of all, I arrived in a cemetery where my father (who died in 2003) was with Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens...
I was given sleeping pills and after taking them I awoke and felt much time had passed so I took more...
After observing a frightening injury of a loved one, I ran as fast as I could to summon help...
To describe my experience in full would take hundreds of pages, therefore I am only going to outline it...
I decided that my unplanned baby would be too hard to take...
I was sitting in church when my pastor had stood up to teach us...
Julian D NDE Home Classification NDE 2317 Julian D NDE 4592 Experience Description I was forlorn in my life and had wanted to die...
For some reason when I was age four, I decided to bite an electrical extension cord...
