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Prior to the experience, I was under a lot of stress but I was not physically ill...
Frances Z NDE Home Classification NDE 3001 Frances Z NDE 6242 Experience Description By the time my son found me, I was blue...
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I was riding a motorbike without any helmet on...
It was an elective surgery (appendectomy) and I woke up in the middle of the surgery, vomiting and with impaired breathing...
Dear Friends, I am taking this opportunity to relay my uncle’s NDE experience...
Rose F NDE Home Classification NDE 3028 Rose F NDE 6269 Experience Description I was in Italy for summer vacation with my mother; her parents resided there and so we spent the whole summer with them...
Vivian M Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3030 Vivian M Probable NDE 6272 Experience Description At age 17, I took some kind of hallucinogen...
I had been in the hospital for two weeks and my cardiologist told me and my parents that my heart was not compatible with living (verbatim)...
Samuel C NDE Home Classification NDE 3047 Samuel C NDE 6284 Experience Description I awoke at about 2 AM, having a powerful thirst...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
On or about Jan 31, 1977 I started feeling flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, general weakness and fatigue)...
My alcoholic illness lasted 35 years, ending in November 1997, when I entered an alcoholic coma that last three weeks...
