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I was twelve years old...
I was a successful business man, entrepreneur, inventor, until 1999 when I became victim to alcohol...
Cara A NDE Home Classification NDE 2433 Cara A NDE 4801 Experience Description I was being attacked...
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James C Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2441 James C Probable NDE 4809 Experience Description The accident happened so fast that it took a while for me to realize what had happened...
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Kathleen W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2458 Kathleen W Probable NDE 4846 Experience Description I remember looking for something in the refrigerator of my previous boyfriend's apartment to wash down the sleeping pills...
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Leaving my boyfriend's house (at the time,) I was driving too fast down a country road that I was not familiar with, in a 1971 Volkswagen bug...
Sabine E Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2467 Sabine E Possible NDE 4791 Experience Description I just had transplant surgery...
Anne M NDE Home Classification NDE 2469 Anne M NDE 4861 Experience Description I had been riding with friends and we had crossed a main boulevard and were approaching a gravel side road...
Rose D NDE Home Classification NDE 2472 Rose D NDE 4867 Experience Description I was having an asthma attack but this one seemed much worse than any I'd had before...
I was working a second shift job so after my husband left for work, I took a nap...
I was awakened from a deep sleep by my sister to answer a telephone call...
Ricky W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2494 Ricky W Probable NDE 4892 Experience Description I tried to rescue an eight year old friend of mine from drowning, and he took me down under the water...
