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When I was fourteen, I went to visit friends for the weekend...
Suddenly the light went out...
Alan M FDE Home Classification FDE 2705 Alan M FDE 5181 Experience Description The experience is most difficult to put into words...
Matt H NDEs Home Classification NDE 2757 Matt H NDEs 5248 Experience Description My best friend and I were at a family reunion on a ranch a hundred and fifty miles from Sacramento, California...
I remember a police officer slapping me across the face, telling me to wake up...
Alexandre B FDE Home Classification FDE 2875 Alexandre B FDE 5375 Experience Description I was swept away by a wave on a Corsican beach and was saved by my father just before swallowing sea water...
I was riding a motorbike without any helmet on...
Here is a clip on YouTube of me standing by this very same river and talking about my experience...
I do not remember what led up to my drowning, but I saw my life flash before my eyes...
I was over at a friend's house, sitting on the couch...
I was sitting in the bathtub with my friend, it was raining outside...
My father was on the Catholic church softball team...
