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I had spent about twenty-four hours in extreme discomfort from pressure in my chest and after taking a shower I packed a small bag with essentials and sat as quietly as possible waiting for daylight to call 911...
I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light...
I sustained a major brain injury, broken back and rib cage from an accident between a bicycle and moving van...
David W NDE Home Classification NDE 2173 David W NDE 4382 Experience Description The morning after my bypass surgery, the fog from anesthesia and morphine was lifting...
In November 2009, I was admitted to a Katy, Texas hospital with ventricular tachycardia...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
By telephone, I interviewed Rebecca yesterday evening...
In May, I entered the hospital...
I wrote this in my journal a few months later; because I was afraid I would 'lose it' as one loses a dream...
Gayle V NDE-Like Experience Home Classification NDE-Like Experience 2194 Gayle V NDE-Like Experience 4396 Experience Description 'I'm Dead'...
Charles D NDE Home Classification NDE 2201 Charles D NDE 4411 Experience Description I had been taking medication for my heart and blood pressure...
During the birth of my second child, the labor started to go drastically wrong...
