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I was surfing on a boogie board in Hawaii...
I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
My appendix ruptured...
The day had been an emotionally difficult one, as my mother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer...
Michaele S NDE Home Classification NDE 2823 Michaele S NDE 5363 Experience Description I was driving my 9 year old daughter home from the dentist and she was sleeping on the seat beside me...
I had open heart surgery, and even though I had died on the table, and even though things were just not feeling right to me, I was sent home...
For weeks I had been feeling painful tugging and cramping in my lower left abdomen...
Douglas H NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2837 Douglas H NDEs 6014 Experience Description The first time, I fell three stories and had some serious head injuries...
My name is Martin and I know I have made many mistakes throughout my life...
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I had been feeling ill and in pain for weeks...
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...
