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I was walking toward a beautiful, bright, white light...
I lost all bodily strength in an instant...
I was 16 and with my boyfriend...
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I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
I can remember being underwater and fighting the wave that had sucked me under...
My appendix ruptured...
The day had been an emotionally difficult one, as my mother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer...
I had been drinking with friends and started to feel light headed...
Michaele S NDE Home Classification NDE 2823 Michaele S NDE 5363 Experience Description I was driving my 9 year old daughter home from the dentist and she was sleeping on the seat beside me...
I was a passenger in a car and we were hit head-on by another vehicle...
It was the end of my pregnancy which had been problem free but, after the last gynecological appointment, I started to bleed...
In those years we lived in a house with an outdoor patio...
