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I had been feeling ill and in pain for weeks...
I vaguely remember feeling very ill and being put to bed (they did not bother so much with hospitals in those days) feeling very miserable, hot, and that my chest hurt me...
I had the morning before said to my husband that I loved him and if anything happened to me that he was to keep on doing things as he did...
I must have been recovering from the double pneumonia or perhaps was still ill; I know this because my mother was obviously watching me quite closely or she wouldn't have been alarmed when she looked at me sleeping that morning...
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I had dreamt days earlier of a woman, a friend’s wife, who I know in real life and had offered me food (I refused in real life)...
I was 18 years old...
I was five or six years old, and my family and neighborhood friends took a pick-up to drive to Karatas (city) where there was an ocean beach...
I had drowned and found myself in a dark place where I felt I was being pushed and pulled...
Anna L NDE Home Classification NDE 2857 Anna L NDE 5373 Experience Description I lost my sensory connection with my surroundings...
I had two experiences, one when I was 15, during one of the many surgeries I underwent after a serious traffic accident, and later one when I was 22, when I was giving birth to my daughter...
I remember this was the third time I attempted suicide...
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I was in labor...
