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The details of my near-death experience are just as vivid today as they were in 1964...
Tom C NDE Home Classification NDE 2050 Tom C NDE 4212 Experience Description I had a NDE when I had a bad car accident six years ago...
The first event that I can remember was when I was three years old...
We’d arrived with all of my new friends...
Sandra B NDE Home Classification NDE 2068 Sandra B NDE 4235 Experience Description My brain surgeon had warned me that I had only minutes to live if the brain aneurysm went off before he operated and to get to the hospital as soon as possible and he would b...
Miguel RP NDE Home Classification NDE 2084 Miguel RP NDE 4133 Experience Description My name is Miguel...
I was visiting my brother at his home...
Ludmila NDE Home Classification NDE 2093 Ludmila NDE 4168 Experience Description I was on an obstetrical table; they made me unconscious through a mask...
On Sunday evening around 8:30 pm and after my parents left I collapsed in my bed...
Debbie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2107 Debbie P NDE 4280 Experience Description During emergency surgery to correct prolonged bleeding from a spontaneous abortion (unknown early stage pregnancy) my heart stopped and electric shock to my heart was applied...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I was four and a half years old...
