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When I was about five, I drowned in the open sea...
My platoon had just completed the crucible, our final trial comprising over 150 miles of humping with 75lb packs on our backs...
I was in a park, but it was very old and abandoned...
January 3, 2013 I died...
The last moment of consciousness before the experience, was seeing the medical staff rolling my bed very fast through the corridors to bring me to the intensive care unit at the basement...
Petra J NDE Home Classification NDE 3587 Petra J NDE 7012 Experience Description It was Friday morning of May 1992, two weeks before my 17th birthday...
On a Saturday afternoon around 3:00 pm, I told my father that I would go around the pond and come back...
This new procedure was a very traumatic time for me...
One evening, probably late, I was coming in and out of the sleep state...
After several days of extremely high fever (104+) my body was shutting down...
Gavin C Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3599 Gavin C Probable NDE 7122 Experience Description On a rafting trip in the head waters of the Waioi River, our raft containing six people flipped over in a grade 4 rapid...
Before I went over, I said, 'Get a doctor...
