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Patrick H NDE Home Classification NDE 2260 Patrick H NDE 2260 Experience Description The hospital staff had finished stitching my wounds when I heard my name being called and they noticed that I was no longer responding...
Norbeto G NDE Home Classification NDE 2261 Norbeto G NDE 4664 Experience Description In January 1985, travelling from the city of Bucaramanga, towards Bogotá, as a passenger in an automobile driven by a friend, we crashed into an articulated lorry which was...
Nettie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2265 Nettie P NDE 4503 Experience Description I had a terrible childbirth that should have been a cesarean section, but when the doctor arrived and realized it was too late, and both the baby and I were already in danger...
I was having my third surgery in nine months due to a tractor accident when something went terribly wrong during surgery...
After the motor vehicle accident, I was brought to the hospital via ambulance and have no recall of that...
Misericordia AC Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2271 Misericordia AC Probable NDE 4695 Experience Description I don't know if I was awake or asleep, I believe I was awake...
Maurice B NDE Home Classification NDE 2273 Maurice B NDE 4687 Experience Description I played a football game with a loose shin pad...
I took an overdose of prescription pills in an attempt at suicide...
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Dorothy T NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2277 Dorothy T NDEs 4517 Experience Description The first time I do not remember well: at six I thought it quite normal to be able to talk to God (I also talked to stars of various colors)...
My father was stationed at Camp Lejune, North Carolina and we were living on the base in the military housing...
I decided that my unplanned baby would be too hard to take...
Dick M NDE Home Classification NDE 2283 Dick M NDE 4534 Experience Description I had been drinking alcoholically for 30 years...
