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We were all training on combative techniques...
My first love boyfriend had broken up with me and I didn't know why...
I had my third open-heart surgery and was in recovery in the intensive care unit (ICU)...
My NDE is different because I experienced it even though I was not the one dying...
At that time, I had an inflamed liver because my body did not process red meat well...
I was in a dark area, like in a room...
I am an experienced emergency medicine physician...
Eight years ago, I was on life support because I had complete organ failure...
Having been raised in fundamentalist background, I was taught the standard doctrines of Christianity...
My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
My first memory is of a dark tunnel, either being pulled or "sucked" very quickly towards an extremely bright white light, so bright that I was afraid that I would be incinerated, or at the very least blinded if I was to enter the light...
During the winter of my freshman year in high school, I was in a group called the Civil Air Patrol...
