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My experience started with a terrible pain in my chest, followed by a sinking, falling feeling...
When I was fifteen years old, I lived in Southern California on Coronado Island...
I just had been eating something...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
Got caught in an undertow, decided to rest when knocked down again, and dragged on bottom, stones embedded in leg...
I felt tremendously peaceful...
I was under general anesthesia during a four-hour surgery about two weeks before my mother passed away...
Ruth B Probable FDE Home Classification Probable FDE 2565 Ruth B Probable FDE 4974 Experience Description This is going to be hard in English (writer is from France)...
Jean C NDE Home Classification NDE 2567 Jean C NDE 4982 Experience Description My mother took me to the dentist when I was seven...
During major surgery on my kidney, the medical staff was unable to control bleeding, which caused my heart to stop...
My NDE took place three days after the birth of my son...
I spent a year in Viet Nam with the 101st Airborne Division...
