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It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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Ken M Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2497 Ken M Possible NDE 4896 Experience Description I was surfing in Carlsbad, California in the early morning before work...
My childhood home was heated by a coal furnace which my mother and father would tend...
I observed the body surrounded by a surgical team, then the hospital from above, then the hospital surrounded by wintering cornfields...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
Following a sudden aortic dissection, I was urgently operated in a specialized center...
During a car trip with my wife I had to stop because of a severe illness with sudden sweating, precordial, and neck pain...
It all started when I was diagnosed with a genetic disease (which until this age I did not know I had) called Parkinson's which, in short words, happens when you have an extra line stimulation to the heart...
I had not long been given two cats...
I remember telling the nurse that I felt very badly...
I was riding a motorbike at night, around fifty to sixty mph on an unlighted highway which I did not know well, and I came off the road on a curve...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
