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I was thirteen years old...
My experience began the day before the near-death event...
I remember once I came to from having been unconscious that I had this feeling, this urgent need to let go...
Jason N NDE Home Classification NDE 1838 Jason N NDE 3888 Experience Description I was woke up by someone I did not know...
The surgery was scheduled for afternoon, they laid me on the operating table and the anesthesiologist gave me the anesthesia, I saw that other people entered the operating room I think they were nurses and nurses' aides...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
I was twenty-one and was with my then boyfriend in a hotel, in Paris...
My experience was as follows: I had to go to a clinic to have tests for tuberculosis as a fellow-student had fallen ill with the disease...
‘Bring your son into the examining room, the doctor will be there shortly’ the young nurse instructed...
I was picking flowers for mum on the way home from school...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
