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I was a Combat Marine, in a battle in which certain death seemed imminent...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
When I was three years old my parents took me to visit friends of theirs who had a swimming pool...
My first experience was a feeling of floating...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
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)...
My dad was on vacation with us during the summer of 1952...
This is my amazing NDE...
Even if I was so young when I had the experience I still remember as if it happened yesterday and still feel how it felt during the experience...
As I was fighting to stay afloat in the freezing temperature of the water, I could feel the weight of my boats pulling me under...
When I was fourteen, I went to visit friends for the weekend...
