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A friend dunked my head under the water and I did not know how to hold my breath...
The Unseen Contract: My Journey Through Death and Beyond Introduction Hello, my name is James...
Beth L FDE Home Classification FDE 2554 Beth L FDE 4963 Experience Description We had those old metal ice cube trays that make the giant cubes with the sharp edges...
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 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)...
This is from my book and in a way, my editor toned it down but it conveys much of what happened...
Jean C NDE Home Classification NDE 2567 Jean C NDE 4982 Experience Description My mother took me to the dentist when I was seven...
