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Before my experience I was more less an atheist...
I was in incredible pain during delivery and things were not progressing well so at around 17 hours of labor I asked for an epidural...
When it happened, I was watching television...
I suffered from treatment-resistant depression and had followed a strict regimen of psychiatric care and numerous medications for two years...
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I was with my family and a group of church people...
The following experience description was written in 2004...
I was a young street racer...
I have no direct recall of the death during the surgery, but afterwards while recovering in the hospital ward I was haunted by an image and memory that I tried to capture in a drawing with color crayons...
I broke my back about six years ago in a skydiving accident...
It's been 16 years since my experience and for many years I wasn't able to talk about it out of fear of judgment...
Probable NDE due to auto accident at age 17 in Singapore...
I do not remember what led up to my drowning, but I saw my life flash before my eyes...
