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I was looking down at the hospital bed where I was lying...
As I was put in an ambulance, I was above watching what was going on...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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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...
I was being observed during pregnancy and was admitted into the hospital's high-risk labor and delivery department...
I awoke to find myself floating above the operating room table where I was, all the doctors were working on me...
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...
It was a hot summer's day and I was on a family outing at a park in Idaho where there was a popular swimming area...
